LinwoodButterfly Dreamy Duskywing (2.6.0-rc.2) released
🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app
The third release candidate of Butterfly Dreamy Duskywing is now available.
RC 2 is a smaller reliability update focused mainly on PDF rendering, importing, and asset handling. Please keep testing and report any remaining issues you find.
Highlights:
- 📄 More reliable PDF rendering
- 📥 More reliable PDF importing
- 🔄 Improved PDF and asset lifecycle handling
- ↔️ RTL icon fixes
More reliable PDF rendering
Butterfly now shows the initial document content while PDFs are still loading and repaints once the visible batch has finished loading.
The renderer state is also published before waiting for visible elements to initialize. This fixes newer strokes being lost while a slower PDF rendering operation is still running.
Viewport updates are handled in the same order, preventing an older visibility update from replacing a newer viewport state after navigation.
More reliable PDF importing
PDF initialization is now awaited before the rest of the application setup continues.
The PDF import workflow now shows its loading state earlier and cleans it up correctly when opening or rendering a PDF preview fails.
Page-selection previews are also rendered at a reduced size instead of using the full page resolution, and their temporary images are disposed after the import workflow finishes.
Improved PDF and asset lifecycle handling
Butterfly now tracks the asset sources used by pages more completely, including sources referenced by elements, backgrounds, strokes, fills, and other paints.
When changing pages, cached sources that are still used by the new page are kept while unused sources can be released.
Failed data and PDF loads are also removed from their caches so a later request can try loading them again instead of reusing the failed result.
The PDF cache cleanup and disposal logic has been adjusted as part of this work as well.
RTL icon fixes
Icons that should keep a fixed orientation are now explicitly kept left-to-right instead of being automatically mirrored in right-to-left layouts.
This change applies across multiple views and controls throughout Butterfly.
Full changelog
- Show initial document content while PDFs load and repaint once the visible batch is ready
- Fix strokes disappearing during PDF rendering and stale viewport updates after navigation (#1259)
- Fix PDF import initialization and loading dialog cleanup after preview failures (#1260)
- Preserve shared PDFs across page changes, release unused sources, and retry failed asset loads (#1261)
- Fix rtl icon mirroring on multiple views