LinwoodButterfly 2.6.0-beta.1 released
🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app
The second beta of Butterfly 2.6 is now available.
This release continues the Dreamy Duskywing beta cycle with improvements to pages, areas, Xournal++ compatibility, path editing, document state handling, and several important fixes.
Highlights:
- 📄 Page selector and page navigation improvements
- 🗂️ Cross-page area selection
- 🧩 Better template and area workflows
- ✏️ Combine paths option
- 📘 Xournal++ export and import improvements
- 🪟 Refined window title bar
- 🐛 Document state and synchronization fixes
Please test this beta carefully and report any bugs or unexpected behavior you find.
Page selector and page navigation improvements
The pages workflow has been improved with a new page selector that supports range input.
This makes it easier to work with multiple pages at once, especially in larger documents where selecting pages one by one would be slow.
The pages navigator now also shows internal page numbers. This should make it easier to understand page order, debug page-related behavior, and work with documents where page names alone are not enough.
New shortcuts for moving to the next and previous page have also been added, making keyboard-based navigation faster.
Cross-page area selection
Areas can now be selected and deleted across multiple pages.
This is especially useful for documents that use repeated layouts or page structures. Instead of manually going through every page, you can now manage areas across pages more directly.
Together with the new internal page numbers, this should make larger multi-page documents easier to organize.
Better template and area workflows
Templates now include an option to apply areas.
This makes templates more useful for documents where the page layout is not only defined by the background, but also by reusable areas.
The area context menu and area selection context menu have also been unified. This should make area actions feel more consistent, regardless of how you opened the menu.
Combine paths option
A new combine paths option has been added.
This gives you another way to clean up or reorganize path-based content after drawing. It should be useful when working with strokes that belong together and should behave more like one connected path. This is can be used for a highlighter stroke that was drawn in multiple parts, or for a complex shape that was drawn in several pieces.
Xournal++ export and import improvements
Butterfly can now export to Xournal++.
This adds a new interoperability option for users who want to move notes or drawings between Butterfly and Xournal++.
The Xournal++ importer has also been improved, making the import side of the workflow more reliable as well.
Refined window title bar
The window title bar design has been improved to look more modern and feel more consistent with the rest of the UI.
Document state and synchronization fixes
Several state handling issues have been fixed in this beta.
State management has been improved to better link different systems together. This should make interactions between pages, areas, documents, and UI systems more reliable.
Location synchronization issues have been fixed, and imported documents no longer incorrectly start as already saved.
Saved documents should also no longer be saved again unnecessarily.
A concurrency issue where foreground refreshing could run multiple times at once has been fixed.
The zoom slider and reset button now work correctly even when zoom is locked, and an issue where polygons could disappear has also been fixed.
Full changelog
- Add pages selector with range input (#1151)
- Add internal page numbers to the pages navigator (#1143)
- Add cross-page area selection and deletion (#1143)
- Add apply areas option to templates (#1151)
- Add combine paths option (#1071)
- Add xournal++ exporter
- Add next and previous page shortcuts
- Improve xournal++ importer
- Improve state management for better linking different systems together
- Improve window title bar design
- Unify area context menu and area selection context menu (#1151)
- Fix refresh foregrounds can be run concurrently
- Fix location synchronization issues
- Fix saved documents being saved again
- Fix imported documents starting as saved
- Fix zoom slider and reset button not working if zoom is locked
- Fix polygon disappears