v6.13.0
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✨ 21 features🐛 1 fixes🔧 5 symbols
Summary
This release introduces extensive support for new locally-hosted models (Qwen, Anima) and externally-hosted models via API keys. Significant improvements were made across the Canvas, Workflow Editor, and Model Manager, including new LLM-powered prompt tools.
Migration Steps
- To use LLM-powered prompt expansion, install a causal LM model (e.g., Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct) via the Model Manager (HuggingFace tab).
- To use externally-hosted models, go to the Models tab, select `External Providers`, select a service, and enter your API key.
- To apply custom workflows to a Canvas image: create a workflow with an image input field and a Canvas Output node, then right-click the canvas and select `Run Workflow`.
- To use workflow connectors, right-click the canvas and select `Add Connector`.
✨ New Features
- Added support for remotely hosted models from external providers like OpenAI, Google (Gemini), BytePlus, and Alibaba Cloud.
- Added support for locally-hosted Qwen Image models (txt2img and edit versions) and Anima.
- Introduced Qwen Image Lightning and Qwen Image Edit Lightning LoRAs for fast rendering.
- Qwen Image Edit 2.5 supports using up to three reference images with declarative alteration statements.
- Anima model supports an Anima Turbo LoRA for faster rendering.
- Model Manager improvements: completely rewritten installation queue display and progress bars, new bulk reidentify action, and ability to sort model listings.
- New LLM-powered prompt expansion feature using a local TextLLM model to generate detailed prompts.
- New Image-to-Prompt feature to generate descriptive prompts from uploaded images.
- Image Gallery now supports automatically creating "virtual" boards to group images (currently by date).
- Canvas improvements: ability to hide/show preview stage thumbnails.
- Added a Lasso Tool to the Canvas with freehand and polygon modes for creating inpaint masks and selecting regions.
- Canvas now supports applying custom workflows directly to a Canvas image via right-click menu.
- Introduced a Custom Node Manager tab for installing and managing node packs (groups of related nodes).
- Workflow nodes are now organized by function in an easy-to-navigate node picker.
- Introduced the workflow connector, a new edge type for flexible connection of multiple input/output fields.
- New generation nodes for running external models.
- New denoising nodes for Qwen Image and Anima local models.
- Added a node for decoding invisible watermarks in images.
- The Collect node now supports chaining for deterministic iteration.
- A new `If` mode allows for conditional branching in workflows.
- In Multiuser Mode, users can create private, shared, and public image boards, and private/shared workflows.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Corrected many small bugs and performance bottlenecks in image generation.