Linwood Butterfly 2.5.0-rc.0 released
Linwood Butterfly
🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app
The first release candidate of Butterfly Crimson Red (2.5) is now available.
Highlights:
- 📤 Better export and data settings
- 👆 New hold shortcuts
- 🔺 Improved polygon workflow
- ⚡ Rendering improvements
- 🐛 Bug fixes
Butterfly Crimson Red (2.5) is now close to the final stable release. Please test this release candidate and report any remaining bugs you find.
Better export and data settings
The data settings are now more flexible with support for selective exporting. Favorite templates are now also included when exporting settings.
This release also adds an option to enable or disable thumbnails for notes in the file viewer (#984).
New hold shortcuts
Touch shortcuts have been extended with support for hold actions. In addition to the existing double and triple touch shortcuts, you can now assign a long press action to make touch workflows more flexible.
Improved polygon workflow
Working with polygons is now more seamless. The dedicated edit mode has been removed so creating and editing polygons feels like a single workflow. You can now long press a polygon to edit existing polygons quickly, the drag handle hitboxes have been improved on mobile devices, and hit calculation is now more reliable.
The polygon toolbar has also been simplified if no polygon is currently edited. This release also fixes issues where closed polygons could not be closed correctly after editing and where the fill rendering was drawn over the stroke.
Rendering improvements
Rendering performance on the unbaked viewport has been improved. The stamp handler was also fixed, including correct scaling on multiple elements and preventing the preview element from still being shown after submitting.
Bug fixes
Opening local files now works correctly even when the default storage is set to cloud. The undo and redo state in the toolbar now updates correctly again.
Full changelog
- Add selective exporting in data settings
- Add hold shortcuts (#992)
- Add option to enable/disable thumbnails for notes (#984)
- Add favorite templates to settings export
- Add long press action for double/triple touch shortcuts
- Fix opening local files when default storage is set to cloud
- Fix stamp handler
- Fix scaling on multiple elements
- Fix preview element will shown after submitting
- Improve rendering performance on unbaked viewport
- Improve polygons
- Remove edit mode to make creating and editing polygons more seamless
- Long press on a polygon to quickly start editing it
- Improve drag handle hitboxes on mobile devices
- Improve hit calculation
- Simplify polygon toolbar if no polygon is edited
- Fix an issue where closed polygons couldn’t be correctly closed after editing
- Fix an issue where fill rendering was drawn over the stroke
- Fix undo/redo state not updating in toolbar