1.9.0-RC

1.9.0

Features:

• Make refiner switchover based on model timesteps instead of sampling steps (#14978)
• add an option to have old-style directory view instead of tree view; stylistic changes for extra network sorting/search controls
• add UI for reordering callbacks, support for specifying callback order in extension metadata (#15205)
• Sgm uniform scheduler for SDXL-Lightning models (#15325)
• Scheduler selection in main UI (#15333, #15361, #15394)

Minor:

• "open images directory" button now opens the actual dir (#14947)
• Support inference with LyCORIS BOFT networks (#14871, #14973)
• make extra network card description plaintext by default, with an option to re-enable HTML as it was
• resize handle for extra networks (#15041)
• cmd args: --unix-filenames-sanitization and --filenames-max-length (#15031)
• show extra networks parameters in HTML table rather than raw JSON (#15131)
• Add DoRA (weight-decompose) support for LoRA/LoHa/LoKr (#15160, #15283)
• Add '--no-prompt-history' cmd args for disable last generation prompt history (#15189)
• update preview on Replace Preview (#15201)
• only fetch updates for extensions' active git branches (#15233)
• put upscale postprocessing UI into an accordion (#15223)
• Support dragdrop for URLs to read infotext (#15262)
• use diskcache library for caching (#15287, #15299)
• Allow PNG-RGBA for Extras Tab (#15334)
• Support cover images embedded in safetensors metadata (#15319)
• faster interrupt when using NN upscale (#15380)
• Extras upscaler: an input field to limit maximul side length for the output image (#15293, #15415, #15417, #15425)
• add an option to hide postprocessing options in Extras tab

Extensions and API:

• ResizeHandleRow - allow overriden column scale parametr (#15004)
• call script_callbacks.ui_settings_callback earlier; fix extra-options-section built-in extension killing the ui if using a setting that doesn't exist
• make it possible to use zoom.js outside webui context (#15286, #15288)
• allow variants for extension name in metadata.ini (#15290)
• make reloading UI scripts optional when doing Reload UI, and off by default
• put request: gr.Request at start of img2img function similar to txt2img
• open_folder as util (#15442)
• make it possible to import extensions' script files as import scripts.<filename> (#15423)

Performance:

• performance optimization for extra networks HTML pages
• optimization for extra networks filtering
• optimization for extra networks sorting

Bug Fixes:

• prevent escape button causing an interrupt when no generation has been made yet
• [bug] avoid doble upscaling in inpaint (#14966)
• possible fix for reload button not appearing in some cases for extra networks.
• fix: the split_threshold parameter does not work when running Split oversized images (#15006)
• Fix resize-handle visability for vertical layout (mobile) (#15010)
• register_tmp_file also for mtime (#15012)
• Protect alphas_cumprod during refiner switchover (#14979)
• Fix EXIF orientation in API image loading (#15062)
• Only override emphasis if actually used in prompt (#15141)
• Fix emphasis infotext missing from params.txt (#15142)
• fix extract_style_text_from_prompt #15132 (#15135)
• Fix Soft Inpaint for AnimateDiff (#15148)
• edit-attention: deselect surrounding whitespace (#15178)
• chore: fix font not loaded (#15183)
• use natural sort in extra networks when ordering by path
• Fix built-in lora system bugs caused by torch.nn.MultiheadAttention (#15190)
• Avoid error from None in get_learned_conditioning (#15191)
• Add entry to MassFileLister after writing metadata (#15199)
• fix issue with Styles when Hires prompt is used (#15269, #15276)
• Strip comments from hires fix prompt (#15263)
• Make imageviewer event listeners browser consistent (#15261)
• Fix AttributeError in OFT when trying to get MultiheadAttention weight (#15260)
• Add missing .mean() back (#15239)
• fix "Restore progress" button (#15221)
• fix ui-config for InputAccordion [custom_script_source] (#15231)
• handle 0 wheel deltaY (#15268)
• prevent alt menu for firefox (#15267)
• fix: fix syntax errors (#15179)
• restore outputs path (#15307)
• Escape btn_copy_path filename (#15316)
• Fix extra networks buttons when filename contains an apostrophe (#15331)
• escape brackets in lora random prompt generator (#15343)
• fix: Python version check for PyTorch installation compatibility (#15390)
• fix typo in call_queue.py (#15386)
• fix: when find already_loaded model, remove loaded by array index (#15382)
• minor bug fix of sd model memory management (#15350)
• Fix CodeFormer weight (#15414)
• Fix: Remove script callbacks in ordered_callbacks_map (#15428)

Hardware:

• Add training support and change lspci for Ascend NPU (#14981)
• Update to ROCm5.7 and PyTorch (#14820)
• Better workaround for Navi1, removing --pre for Navi3 (#15224)
• Ascend NPU wiki page (#15228)

Other:

• Update comment for Pad prompt/negative prompt v0 to add a warning about truncation, make it override the v1 implementation
• support resizable columns for touch (tablets) (#15002)
• Fix #14591 using translated content to do categories mapping (#14995)
• Use absolute path for normalized filepath (#15035)
• resizeHandle handle double tap (#15065)
• --dat-models-path cmd flag (#15039)
• Add a direct link to the binary release (#15059)
• upscaler_utils: Reduce logging (#15084)
• Fix various typos with crate-ci/typos (#15116)
• fix_jpeg_live_preview (#15102)
• [alternative fix] can't load webui if selected wrong extra option in ui (#15121)
• Error handling for unsupported transparency (#14958)
• Add model description to searched terms (#15198)
• bump action version (#15272)
• PEP 604 annotations (#15259)
• Automatically Set the Scale by value when user selects an Upscale Model (#15244)
• move postprocessing-for-training into builtin extensions (#15222)
• type hinting in shared.py (#15211)
• update ruff to 0.3.3
• Update pytorch lightning utilities (#15310)
• Add Size as an XYZ Grid option (#15354)
• Use HF_ENDPOINT variable for HuggingFace domain with default (#15443)
• re-add update_file_entry (#15446)