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v6.0.0rc5

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✨ 15 features🐛 19 fixes🔧 2 symbols

Summary

This release candidate (v6.0.0rc5) introduces significant UI/UX improvements, including new Launchpads, a dedicated Generate tab, and enhanced Canvas features like composition guides and PSD export. It also adds support for FLUX Kontext and OMI LoRA, alongside Prompt Expansion for Pro users.

Migration Steps

  1. The Invoke Launcher is the recommended way to install, update, and run Invoke.
  2. Follow the Quick Start guide (https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/installation/quick_start/) to get started with the launcher.
  3. If not using the launcher, follow the manual install guide (https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/installation/manual/).

✨ New Features

  • Launchpads introduced for guided, intuitive interfaces across different Invoke sections.
  • New "Generate" tab for simple Text-to-Image generation, bypassing the canvas.
  • Updated layout featuring a tabbed Image Viewer.
  • Gallery now displays all images in a single grid without pagination.
  • Composition guides (e.g., Rule of Thirds) added to the bounding box on the Canvas.
  • New "Edit" button in the image viewer to create a new canvas with the selected image.
  • Hotkeys/buttons to toggle all non-Raster layers on/off using `Shift + H`.
  • Updated and intuitive reference image management moved to the left-hand settings panel.
  • Export Canvas functionality to PSD (Photoshop) format.
  • FLUX Kontext Support added to Generate, Canvas, and Workflows tabs.
  • OMI LoRA Support and additional AI Toolkit LoRA support for FLUX.
  • Prompt Expansion feature introduced (Pro Only) for AI-powered prompt enhancement and image-to-prompt conversion.
  • Workflow and upscale launchpads added.
  • Toggle for reference image visibility added.
  • Automatically select brush tool on edit.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed names of unpublishable nodes.
  • Ensured each invocation overrides _original_model_fields with own field data.
  • Fixed 1:1 ratio for flux kontext.
  • Fixed regional guidance reference image not selecting.
  • Fixed LoRA picker to default to current base model architecture.
  • Fixed NaN values from getting into konva internals.
  • Fixed issues related to graph building and invalid edges during node preparation.
  • Fixed related models in the new model picker.
  • Fixed Upscale creativity bug.
  • Fixed navigation on Edit/View workflow buttons to point to the right panel.
  • Fixed disabled tabs from loading.
  • Fixed regional guidance tooltip reference.
  • Fixed exception handling in the session queue API.
  • Fixed button functionality in the workflow tab.
  • Removed Canvas Session button.
  • Fixed translation reference in models picker.
  • Fixed save to gallery image update issue from the staging area.
  • Fixed Canvas session reset when a queue item is canceled.
  • Fixed brush layer positioning in PSD export.

🔧 Affected Symbols

flux_text_encoder.pyflux_denoise.py