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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)
• fix limited file write (thanks, Sylwia)
• Fix extra-single-image API not doing upscale failed (#15465)
• error handling paste_field callables (#15470)

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)
• create_infotext allow index and callable, re-work Hires prompt infotext (#15460)
• update restricted_opts to include more options for --hide-ui-dir-config (#15492)

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)

Features:

• Update torch to version 2.1.2
• Soft Inpainting (#14208)
• FP8 support (#14031, #14327)
• Support for SDXL-Inpaint Model (#14390)
• Use Spandrel for upscaling and face restoration architectures (#14425, #14467, #14473, #14474, #14477, #14476, #14484, #14500, #14501, #14504, #14524, #14809)
• Automatic backwards version compatibility (when loading infotexts from old images with program version specified, will add compatibility settings)
• Implement zero terminal SNR noise schedule option (SEED BREAKING CHANGE, #14145, #14979)
• Add a [✨] button to run hires fix on selected image in the gallery (with help from #14598, #14626, #14728)
• Separate assets repository; serve fonts locally rather than from google's servers
• Official LCM Sampler Support (#14583)
• Add support for DAT upscaler models (#14690, #15039)
• Extra Networks Tree View (#14588, #14900)
• NPU Support (#14801)
• Prompt comments support

Minor:

• Allow pasting in WIDTHxHEIGHT strings into the width/height fields (#14296)
• add option: Live preview in full page image viewer (#14230, #14307)
• Add keyboard shortcuts for generate/skip/interrupt (#14269)
• Better TCMALLOC support on different platforms (#14227, #14883, #14910)
• Lora not found warning (#14464)
• Adding negative prompts to Loras in extra networks (#14475)
• xyz_grid: allow varying the seed along an axis separate from axis options (#12180)
• option to convert VAE to bfloat16 (implementation of #9295)
• Better IPEX support (#14229, #14353, #14559, #14562, #14597)
• Option to interrupt after current generation rather than immediately (#13653, #14659)
• Fullscreen Preview control fading/disable (#14291)
• Finer settings freezing control (#13789)
• Increase Upscaler Limits (#14589)
• Adjust brush size with hotkeys (#14638)
• Add checkpoint info to csv log file when saving images (#14663)
• Make more columns resizable (#14740, #14884)
• Add an option to not overlay original image for inpainting for #14727
• Add Pad conds v0 option to support same generation with DDIM as before 1.6.0
• Add "Interrupting..." placeholder.
• Button for refresh extensions list (#14857)
• Add an option to disable normalization after calculating emphasis. (#14874)
• When counting tokens, also include enabled styles (can be disabled in settings to revert to previous behavior)
• Configuration for the [📂] button for image gallery (#14947)
• Support inference with LyCORIS BOFT networks (#14871, #14973)
• support resizable columns for touch (tablets) (#15002)

Extensions and API:

• Removed packages from requirements: basicsr, gfpgan, realesrgan; as well as their dependencies: absl-py, addict, beautifulsoup4, future, gdown, grpcio, importlib-metadata, lmdb, lpips, Markdown, platformdirs, PySocks, soupsieve, tb-nightly, tensorboard-data-server, tomli, Werkzeug, yapf, zipp, soupsieve
• Enable task ids for API (#14314)
• add override_settings support for infotext API
• rename generation_parameters_copypaste module to infotext_utils
• prevent crash due to Script __init__ exception (#14407)
• Bump numpy to 1.26.2 (#14471)
• Add utility to inspect a model's dtype/device (#14478)
• Implement general forward method for all method in built-in lora ext (#14547)
• Execute model_loaded_callback after moving to target device (#14563)
• Add self to CFGDenoiserParams (#14573)
• Allow TLS with API only mode (--nowebui) (#14593)
• New callback: postprocess_image_after_composite (#14657)
• modules/api/api.py: add api endpoint to refresh embeddings list (#14715)
• set_named_arg (#14773)
• add before_token_counter callback and use it for prompt comments
• ResizeHandleRow - allow overriden column scale parameter (#15004)

Performance

• Massive performance improvement for extra networks directories with a huge number of files in them in an attempt to tackle #14507 (#14528)
• Reduce unnecessary re-indexing extra networks directory (#14512)
• Avoid unnecessary isfile/exists calls (#14527)

Bug Fixes:

• fix multiple bugs related to styles multi-file support (#14203, #14276, #14707)
• Lora fixes (#14300, #14237, #14546, #14726)
• Re-add setting lost as part of e294e46 (#14266)
• fix extras caption BLIP (#14330)
• include infotext into saved init image for img2img (#14452)
• xyz grid handle axis_type is None (#14394)
• Update Added (Fixed) IPV6 Functionality When there is No Webui Argument Passed webui.py (#14354)
• fix API thread safe issues of txt2img and img2img (#14421)
• handle selectable script_index is None (#14487)
• handle config.json failed to load (#14525, #14767)
• paste infotext cast int as float (#14523)
• Ensure GRADIO_ANALYTICS_ENABLED is set early enough (#14537)
• Fix logging configuration again (#14538)
• Handle CondFunc exception when resolving attributes (#14560)
• Fix extras big batch crashes (#14699)
• Fix using wrong model caused by alias (#14655)
• Add # to the invalid_filename_chars list (#14640)
• Fix extension check for requirements (#14639)
• Fix tab indexes are reset after restart UI (#14637)
• Fix nested manual cast (#14689)
• Keep postprocessing upscale selected tab after restart (#14702)
• XYZ grid: filter out blank vals when axis is int or float type (like int axis seed) (#14754)
• fix CLIP Interrogator topN regex (#14775)
• Fix dtype error in MHA layer/change dtype checking mechanism for manual cast (#14791)
• catch load style.csv error (#14814)
• fix error when editing extra networks card
• fix extra networks metadata failing to work properly when you create the .json file with metadata for the first time.
• util.walk_files extensions case insensitive (#14879)
• if extensions page not loaded, prevent apply (#14873)
• call the right function for token counter in img2img
• Fix the bugs that search/reload will disappear when using other ExtraNetworks extensions (#14939)
• Gracefully handle mtime read exception from cache (#14933)
• Only trigger interrupt on Esc when interrupt button visible (#14932)
• Disable prompt token counters option actually disables token counting rather than just hiding results.
• avoid doble upscaling in inpaint (#14966)
• Fix #14591 using translated content to do categories mapping (#14995)
• fix: the split_threshold parameter does not work when running Split oversized images (#15006)
• Fix resize-handle for mobile (#15010, #15065)

Other:

• Assign id for "extra_options". Replace numeric field with slider. (#14270)
• change state dict comparison to ref compare (#14216)
• Bump torch-rocm to 5.6/5.7 (#14293)
• Base output path off data path (#14446)
• reorder training preprocessing modules in extras tab (#14367)
• Remove cleanup_models code (#14472)
• only rewrite ui-config when there is change (#14352)
• Fix lint issue from 501993eb (#14495)
• Update README.md (#14548)
• hires button, fix seeds (#14598)
• Logging: set formatter correctly for fallback logger too (#14618)
• Read generation info from infotexts rather than json for internal needs (save, extract seed from generated pic) (#14645)
• improve get_crop_region (#14709)
• Bump safetensors' version to 0.4.2 (#14782)
• add tooltip create_submit_box (#14803)
• extensions tab table row hover highlight (#14885)
• Always add timestamp to displayed image (#14890)
• Added core.filemode=false so doesn't track changes in file permission… (#14930)
• Normalize command-line argument paths (#14934, #15035)
• Use original App Title in progress bar (#14916)
• register_tmp_file also for mtime (#15012)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/compare/v1.7.0...v1.8.0

1.8.0-RC

Features:

• Update torch to version 2.1.2
• Soft Inpainting (#14208)
• FP8 support (#14031, #14327)
• Support for SDXL-Inpaint Model (#14390)
• Use Spandrel for upscaling and face restoration architectures (#14425, #14467, #14473, #14474, #14477, #14476, #14484, #14500, #14501, #14504, #14524, #14809)
• Automatic backwards version compatibility (when loading infotexts from old images with program version specified, will add compatibility settings)
• Implement zero terminal SNR noise schedule option (SEED BREAKING CHANGE, #14145)
• Add a [✨] button to run hires fix on selected image in the gallery (with help from #14598, #14626, #14728)
• Separate assets repository; serve fonts locally rather than from google's servers
• Official LCM Sampler Support (#14583)
• Add support for DAT upscaler models (#14690)
• Extra Networks Tree View (#14588, #14900)
• NPU Support (#14801)
• Propmpt comments support

Minor:

• Allow pasting in WIDTHxHEIGHT strings into the width/height fields (#14296)
• add option: Live preview in full page image viewer (#14230, #14307)
• Add keyboard shortcuts for generate/skip/interrupt (#14269)
• Better TCMALLOC support on different platforms (#14227, #14883, #14910)
• Lora not found warning (#14464)
• Adding negative prompts to Loras in extra networks (#14475)
• xyz_grid: allow varying the seed along an axis separate from axis options (#12180)
• option to convert VAE to bfloat16 (implementation of #9295)
• Better IPEX support (#14229, #14353, #14559, #14562, #14597)
• Option to interrupt after current generation rather than immediately (#13653, #14659)
• Fullscreen Preview control fading/disable (#14291)
• Finer settings freezing control (#13789)
• Increase Upscaler Limits (#14589)
• Adjust brush size with hotkeys (#14638)
• Add checkpoint info to csv log file when saving images (#14663)
• Make more columns resizable (#14740, #14884)
• Add an option to not overlay original image for inpainting for #14727
• Add Pad conds v0 option
• Add "Interrupting..." placeholder.
• Button for refresh extensions list (#14857)
• Add an option to disable normalization after calculating emphasis. (#14874)
• When counting tokens, also include enabled styles (can be disabled in settings to revert to previous behavior)

Extensions and API:

• Enable task ids for API (#14314)
• add override_settings support for infotext API
• rename generation_parameters_copypaste module to infotext_utils
• prevent crash due to Script init exception (#14407)
• Bump numpy to 1.26.2 (#14471)
• Add utility to inspect a model's dtype/device (#14478)
• Implement general forward method for all method in built-in lora ext (#14547)
• Execute model_loaded_callback after moving to target device (#14563)
• Add self to CFGDenoiserParams (#14573)
• Allow TLS with API only mode (--nowebui) (#14593)
• New callback: postprocess_image_after_composite (#14657)
• modules/api/api.py: add api endpoint to refresh embeddings list (#14715)
• set_named_arg (#14773)
• add before_token_counter callback and use it for prompt comments

Performance

• Massive performance improvement for extra networks directories with a huge number of files in them in an attempt to tackle #14507 (#14528)
• Reduce unnecessary re-indexing extra networks directory (#14512)
• Avoid unnecessary isfile/exists calls (#14527)

Bug Fixes:

• fix multiple bugs related to styles multi-file support (#14203, #14276, #14707)
• Lora fixes (#14300, #14237, #14546, #14726)
• Re-add setting lost as part of e294e46 (#14266)
• fix extras caption BLIP (#14330)
• include infotext into saved init image for img2img (#14452)
• xyz grid handle axis_type is None (#14394)
• Update Added (Fixed) IPV6 Functionality When there is No Webui Argument Passed webui.py (#14354)
• fix API thread safe issues of txt2img and img2img (#14421)
• handle selectable script_index is None (#14487)
• handle config.json failed to load (#14525, #14767)
• paste infotext cast int as float (#14523)
• Ensure GRADIO_ANALYTICS_ENABLED is set early enough (#14537)
• Fix logging configuration again (#14538)
• Handle CondFunc exception when resolving attributes (#14560)
• Fix extras big batch crashes (#14699)
• Fix using wrong model caused by alias (#14655)
• Add # to the invalid_filename_chars list (#14640)
• Fix extension check for requirements (#14639)
• Fix tab indexes are reset after restart UI (#14637)
• Fix nested manual cast (#14689)
• Keep postprocessing upscale selected tab after restart (#14702)
• XYZ grid: filter out blank vals when axis is int or float type (like int axis seed) (#14754)
• fix CLIP Interrogator topN regex (#14775)
• Fix dtype error in MHA layer/change dtype checking mechanism for manual cast (#14791)
• catch load style.csv error (#14814)
• fix error when editing extra networks card
• fix extra networks metadata failing to work properly when you create the .json file with metadata for the first time.
• util.walk_files extensions case insensitive (#14879)
• if extensions page not loaded, prevent apply (#14873)
• call the right function for token counter in img2img
• Fix the bugs that search/reload will disappear when using other ExtraNetworks extensions (#14939)
• Gracefully handle mtime read exception from cache (#14933)
• Only trigger interrupt on Esc when interrupt button visible (#14932)
• Disable prompt token counters option actually disables token counting rather than just hiding results.

Other:

• Assign id for "extra_options". Replace numeric field with slider. (#14270)
• change state dict comparison to ref compare (#14216)
• Bump torch-rocm to 5.6/5.7 (#14293)
• Base output path off data path (#14446)
• reorder training preprocessing modules in extras tab (#14367)
• Remove cleanup_models code (#14472)
• only rewrite ui-config when there is change (#14352)
• Fix lint issue from 501993eb (#14495)
• Update README.md (#14548)
• hires button, fix seeds ()
• Logging: set formatter correctly for fallback logger too (#14618)
• Read generation info from infotexts rather than json for internal needs (save, extract seed from generated pic) (#14645)
• improve get_crop_region (#14709)
• Bump safetensors' version to 0.4.2 (#14782)
• add tooltip create_submit_box (#14803)
• extensions tab table row hover highlight (#14885)
• Always add timestamp to displayed image (#14890)
• Added core.filemode=false so doesn't track changes in file permission… (#14930)
• Normalize command-line argument paths (#14934)
• Use original App Title in progress bar (#14916)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/compare/v1.7.0...v1.8.0-RC

Features:

• settings tab rework: add search field, add categories, split UI settings page into many
• add altdiffusion-m18 support (#13364)
• support inference with LyCORIS GLora networks (#13610)
• add lora-embedding bundle system (#13568)
• option to move prompt from top row into generation parameters
• add support for SSD-1B (#13865)
• support inference with OFT networks (#13692)
• script metadata and DAG sorting mechanism (#13944)
• support HyperTile optimization (#13948)
• add support for SD 2.1 Turbo (#14170)
• remove Train->Preprocessing tab and put all its functionality into Extras tab
• initial IPEX support for Intel Arc GPU (#14171)

Minor:

• allow reading model hash from images in img2img batch mode (#12767)
• add option to align with sgm repo's sampling implementation (#12818)
• extra field for lora metadata viewer: ss_output_name (#12838)
• add action in settings page to calculate all SD checkpoint hashes (#12909)
• add button to copy prompt to style editor (#12975)
• add --skip-load-model-at-start option (#13253)
• write infotext to gif images
• read infotext from gif images (#13068)
• allow configuring the initial state of InputAccordion in ui-config.json (#13189)
• allow editing whitespace delimiters for ctrl+up/ctrl+down prompt editing (#13444)
• prevent accidentally closing popup dialogs (#13480)
• added option to play notification sound or not (#13631)
• show the preview image in the full screen image viewer if available (#13459)
• support for webui.settings.bat (#13638)
• add an option to not print stack traces on ctrl+c
• start/restart generation by Ctrl (Alt) + Enter (#13644)
• update prompts_from_file script to allow concatenating entries with the general prompt (#13733)
• added a visible checkbox to input accordion
• added an option to hide all txt2img/img2img parameters in an accordion (#13826)
• added 'Path' sorting option for Extra network cards (#13968)
• enable prompt hotkeys in style editor (#13931)
• option to show batch img2img results in UI (#14009)
• infotext updates: add option to disregard certain infotext fields, add option to not include VAE in infotext, add explanation to infotext settings page, move some options to infotext settings page
• add FP32 fallback support on sd_vae_approx (#14046)
• support XYZ scripts / split hires path from unet (#14126)
• allow use of mutiple styles csv files (#14125)

Extensions and API:

• update gradio to 3.41.2
• support installed extensions list api (#12774)
• update pnginfo API to return dict with parsed values
• add noisy latent to ExtraNoiseParams for callback (#12856)
• show extension datetime in UTC (#12864, #12865, #13281)
• add an option to choose how to combine hires fix and refiner
• include program version in info response. (#13135)
• sd_unet support for SDXL
• patch DDPM.register_betas so that users can put given_betas in model yaml (#13276)
• xyz_grid: add prepare (#13266)
• allow multiple localization files with same language in extensions (#13077)
• add onEdit function for js and rework token-counter.js to use it
• fix the key error exception when processing override_settings keys (#13567)
• ability for extensions to return custom data via api in response.images (#13463)
• call state.jobnext() before postproces*() (#13762)
• add option to set notification sound volume (#13884)
• update Ruff to 0.1.6 (#14059)
• add Block component creation callback (#14119)
• catch uncaught exception with ui creation scripts (#14120)
• use extension name for determining an extension is installed in the index (#14063)
• update is_installed() from launch_utils.py to fix reinstalling already installed packages (#14192)

Bug Fixes:

• fix pix2pix producing bad results
• fix defaults settings page breaking when any of main UI tabs are hidden
• fix error that causes some extra networks to be disabled if both lora: and lyco: are present in the prompt
• fix for Reload UI function: if you reload UI on one tab, other opened tabs will no longer stop working
• prevent duplicate resize handler (#12795)
• small typo: vae resolve bug (#12797)
• hide broken image crop tool (#12792)
• don't show hidden samplers in dropdown for XYZ script (#12780)
• fix style editing dialog breaking if it's opened in both img2img and txt2img tabs
• hide --gradio-auth and --api-auth values from /internal/sysinfo report
• add missing infotext for RNG in options (#12819)
• fix notification not playing when built-in webui tab is inactive (#12834)
• honor --skip-install for extension installers (#12832)
• don't print blank stdout in extension installers (#12833, #12855)
• get progressbar to display correctly in extensions tab
• keep order in list of checkpoints when loading model that doesn't have a checksum
• fix inpainting models in txt2img creating black pictures
• fix generation params regex (#12876)
• fix batch img2img output dir with script (#12926)
• fix #13080 - Hypernetwork/TI preview generation (#13084)
• fix bug with sigma min/max overrides. (#12995)
• more accurate check for enabling cuDNN benchmark on 16XX cards (#12924)
• don't use multicond parser for negative prompt counter (#13118)
• fix data-sort-name containing spaces (#13412)
• update card on correct tab when editing metadata (#13411)
• fix viewing/editing metadata when filename contains an apostrophe (#13395)
• fix: --sd_model in "Prompts from file or textbox" script is not working (#13302)
• better Support for Portable Git (#13231)
• fix issues when webui_dir is not work_dir (#13210)
• fix: lora-bias-backup don't reset cache (#13178)
• account for customizable extra network separators whyen removing extra network text from the prompt (#12877)
• re fix batch img2img output dir with script (#13170)
• fix --ckpt-dir path separator and option use short name for checkpoint dropdown (#13139)
• consolidated allowed preview formats, Fix extra network .gif not woking as preview (#13121)
• fix venv_dir=- environment variable not working as expected on linux (#13469)
• repair unload sd checkpoint button
• edit-attention fixes (#13533)
• fix bug when using --gfpgan-models-path (#13718)
• properly apply sort order for extra network cards when selected from dropdown
• fixes generation restart not working for some users when 'Ctrl+Enter' is pressed (#13962)
• thread safe extra network list_items (#13014)
• fix not able to exit metadata popup when pop up is too big (#14156)
• fix auto focal point crop for opencv >= 4.8 (#14121)
• make 'use-cpu all' actually apply to 'all' (#14131)
• extras tab batch: actually use original filename
• make webui not crash when running with --disable-all-extensions option

Other:

• non-local condition (#12814)
• fix minor typos (#12827)
• remove xformers Python version check (#12842)
• style: file-metadata word-break (#12837)
• revert SGM noise multiplier change for img2img because it breaks hires fix
• do not change quicksettings dropdown option when value returned is None (#12854)
• [RC 1.6.0 - zoom is partly hidden] Update style.css (#12839)
• chore: change extension time format (#12851)
• WEBUI.SH - Use torch 2.1.0 release candidate for Navi 3 (#12929)
• add Fallback at images.read_info_from_image if exif data was invalid (#13028)
• update cmd arg description (#12986)
• fix: update shared.opts.data when add_option (#12957, #13213)
• restore missing tooltips (#12976)
• use default dropdown padding on mobile (#12880)
• put enable console prompts option into settings from commandline args (#13119)
• fix some deprecated types (#12846)
• bump to torchsde==0.2.6 (#13418)
• update dragdrop.js (#13372)
• use orderdict as lru cache:opt/bug (#13313)
• XYZ if not include sub grids do not save sub grid (#13282)
• initialize state.time_start befroe state.job_count (#13229)
• fix fieldname regex (#13458)
• change denoising_strength default to None. (#13466)
• fix regression (#13475)
• fix IndexError (#13630)
• fix: checkpoints_loaded:{checkpoint:state_dict}, model.load_state_dict issue in dict value empty (#13535)
• update bug_report.yml (#12991)
• requirements_versions httpx==0.24.1 (#13839)
• fix parenthesis auto selection (#13829)
• fix #13796 (#13797)
• corrected a typo in modules/cmd_args.py (#13855)
• feat: fix randn found element of type float at pos 2 (#14004)
• adds tqdm handler to logging_config.py for progress bar integration (#13996)
• hotfix: call shared.state.end() after postprocessing done (#13977)
• fix dependency address patch 1 (#13929)
• save sysinfo as .json (#14035)
• move exception_records related methods to errors.py (#14084)
• compatibility (#13936)
• json.dump(ensure_ascii=False) (#14108)
• dir buttons start with / so only the correct dir will be shown and no… (#13957)
• alternate implementation for unet forward replacement that does not depend on hijack being applied
• re-add keyedit_delimiters_whitespace setting lost as part of commit e294e46 (#14178)
• fix save_samples being checked early when saving masked composite (#14177)
• slight optimization for mask and mask_composite (#14181)
• add import_hook hack to work around basicsr/torchvision incompatibility (#14186)

How to use: wiki.

Features:

• settings tab rework: add search field, add categories, split UI settings page into many
• add altdiffusion-m18 support (#13364)
• support inference with LyCORIS GLora networks (#13610)
• add lora-embedding bundle system (#13568)
• option to move prompt from top row into generation parameters
• add support for SSD-1B (#13865)
• support inference with OFT networks (#13692)
• script metadata and DAG sorting mechanism (#13944)
• support HyperTile optimization (#13948)
• add support for SD 2.1 Turbo (#14170)
• remove Train->Preprocessing tab and put all its functionality into Extras tab
• initial IPEX support for Intel Arc GPU (#14171)

Minor:

• allow reading model hash from images in img2img batch mode (#12767)
• add option to align with sgm repo's sampling implementation (#12818)
• extra field for lora metadata viewer: ss_output_name (#12838)
• add action in settings page to calculate all SD checkpoint hashes (#12909)
• add button to copy prompt to style editor (#12975)
• add --skip-load-model-at-start option (#13253)
• write infotext to gif images
• read infotext from gif images (#13068)
• allow configuring the initial state of InputAccordion in ui-config.json (#13189)
• allow editing whitespace delimiters for ctrl+up/ctrl+down prompt editing (#13444)
• prevent accidentally closing popup dialogs (#13480)
• added option to play notification sound or not (#13631)
• show the preview image in the full screen image viewer if available (#13459)
• support for webui.settings.bat (#13638)
• add an option to not print stack traces on ctrl+c
• start/restart generation by Ctrl (Alt) + Enter (#13644)
• update prompts_from_file script to allow concatenating entries with the general prompt (#13733)
• added a visible checkbox to input accordion
• added an option to hide all txt2img/img2img parameters in an accordion (#13826)
• added 'Path' sorting option for Extra network cards (#13968)
• enable prompt hotkeys in style editor (#13931)
• option to show batch img2img results in UI (#14009)
• infotext updates: add option to disregard certain infotext fields, add option to not include VAE in infotext, add explanation to infotext settings page, move some options to infotext settings page
• add FP32 fallback support on sd_vae_approx (#14046)
• support XYZ scripts / split hires path from unet (#14126)
• allow use of mutiple styles csv files (#14125)

Extensions and API:

• update gradio to 3.41.2
• support installed extensions list api (#12774)
• update pnginfo API to return dict with parsed values
• add noisy latent to ExtraNoiseParams for callback (#12856)
• show extension datetime in UTC (#12864, #12865, #13281)
• add an option to choose how to combine hires fix and refiner
• include program version in info response. (#13135)
• sd_unet support for SDXL
• patch DDPM.register_betas so that users can put given_betas in model yaml (#13276)
• xyz_grid: add prepare (#13266)
• allow multiple localization files with same language in extensions (#13077)
• add onEdit function for js and rework token-counter.js to use it
• fix the key error exception when processing override_settings keys (#13567)
• ability for extensions to return custom data via api in response.images (#13463)
• call state.jobnext() before postproces*() (#13762)
• add option to set notification sound volume (#13884)
• update Ruff to 0.1.6 (#14059)
• add Block component creation callback (#14119)
• catch uncaught exception with ui creation scripts (#14120)
• use extension name for determining an extension is installed in the index (#14063)
• update is_installed() from launch_utils.py to fix reinstalling already installed packages (#14192)

Bug Fixes:

• fix pix2pix producing bad results
• fix defaults settings page breaking when any of main UI tabs are hidden
• fix error that causes some extra networks to be disabled if both lora: and lyco: are present in the prompt
• fix for Reload UI function: if you reload UI on one tab, other opened tabs will no longer stop working
• prevent duplicate resize handler (#12795)
• small typo: vae resolve bug (#12797)
• hide broken image crop tool (#12792)
• don't show hidden samplers in dropdown for XYZ script (#12780)
• fix style editing dialog breaking if it's opened in both img2img and txt2img tabs
• hide --gradio-auth and --api-auth values from /internal/sysinfo report
• add missing infotext for RNG in options (#12819)
• fix notification not playing when built-in webui tab is inactive (#12834)
• honor --skip-install for extension installers (#12832)
• don't print blank stdout in extension installers (#12833, #12855)
• get progressbar to display correctly in extensions tab
• keep order in list of checkpoints when loading model that doesn't have a checksum
• fix inpainting models in txt2img creating black pictures
• fix generation params regex (#12876)
• fix batch img2img output dir with script (#12926)
• fix #13080 - Hypernetwork/TI preview generation (#13084)
• fix bug with sigma min/max overrides. (#12995)
• more accurate check for enabling cuDNN benchmark on 16XX cards (#12924)
• don't use multicond parser for negative prompt counter (#13118)
• fix data-sort-name containing spaces (#13412)
• update card on correct tab when editing metadata (#13411)
• fix viewing/editing metadata when filename contains an apostrophe (#13395)
• fix: --sd_model in "Prompts from file or textbox" script is not working (#13302)
• better Support for Portable Git (#13231)
• fix issues when webui_dir is not work_dir (#13210)
• fix: lora-bias-backup don't reset cache (#13178)
• account for customizable extra network separators whyen removing extra network text from the prompt (#12877)
• re fix batch img2img output dir with script (#13170)
• fix --ckpt-dir path separator and option use short name for checkpoint dropdown (#13139)
• consolidated allowed preview formats, Fix extra network .gif not woking as preview (#13121)
• fix venv_dir=- environment variable not working as expected on linux (#13469)
• repair unload sd checkpoint button
• edit-attention fixes (#13533)
• fix bug when using --gfpgan-models-path (#13718)
• properly apply sort order for extra network cards when selected from dropdown
• fixes generation restart not working for some users when 'Ctrl+Enter' is pressed (#13962)
• thread safe extra network list_items (#13014)
• fix not able to exit metadata popup when pop up is too big (#14156)
• fix auto focal point crop for opencv >= 4.8 (#14121)
• make 'use-cpu all' actually apply to 'all' (#14131)
• extras tab batch: actually use original filename
• make webui not crash when running with --disable-all-extensions option

Other:

• non-local condition (#12814)
• fix minor typos (#12827)
• remove xformers Python version check (#12842)
• style: file-metadata word-break (#12837)
• revert SGM noise multiplier change for img2img because it breaks hires fix
• do not change quicksettings dropdown option when value returned is None (#12854)
• [RC 1.6.0 - zoom is partly hidden] Update style.css (#12839)
• chore: change extension time format (#12851)
• WEBUI.SH - Use torch 2.1.0 release candidate for Navi 3 (#12929)
• add Fallback at images.read_info_from_image if exif data was invalid (#13028)
• update cmd arg description (#12986)
• fix: update shared.opts.data when add_option (#12957, #13213)
• restore missing tooltips (#12976)
• use default dropdown padding on mobile (#12880)
• put enable console prompts option into settings from commandline args (#13119)
• fix some deprecated types (#12846)
• bump to torchsde==0.2.6 (#13418)
• update dragdrop.js (#13372)
• use orderdict as lru cache:opt/bug (#13313)
• XYZ if not include sub grids do not save sub grid (#13282)
• initialize state.time_start befroe state.job_count (#13229)
• fix fieldname regex (#13458)
• change denoising_strength default to None. (#13466)
• fix regression (#13475)
• fix IndexError (#13630)
• fix: checkpoints_loaded:{checkpoint:state_dict}, model.load_state_dict issue in dict value empty (#13535)
• update bug_report.yml (#12991)
• requirements_versions httpx==0.24.1 (#13839)
• fix parenthesis auto selection (#13829)
• fix #13796 (#13797)
• corrected a typo in modules/cmd_args.py (#13855)
• feat: fix randn found element of type float at pos 2 (#14004)
• adds tqdm handler to logging_config.py for progress bar integration (#13996)
• hotfix: call shared.state.end() after postprocessing done (#13977)
• fix dependency address patch 1 (#13929)
• save sysinfo as .json (#14035)
• move exception_records related methods to errors.py (#14084)
• compatibility (#13936)
• json.dump(ensure_ascii=False) (#14108)
• dir buttons start with / so only the correct dir will be shown and no… (#13957)
• alternate implementation for unet forward replacement that does not depend on hijack being applied
• re-add keyedit_delimiters_whitespace setting lost as part of commit e294e46 (#14178)
• fix save_samples being checked early when saving masked composite (#14177)
• slight optimization for mask and mask_composite (#14181)
• add import_hook hack to work around basicsr/torchvision incompatibility (#14186)

Features:

• refiner support #12371
• add NV option for Random number generator source setting, which allows to generate same pictures on CPU/AMD/Mac as on NVidia videocards
• add style editor dialog
• hires fix: add an option to use a different checkpoint for second pass (#12181)
• option to keep multiple loaded models in memory (#12227)
• new samplers: Restart, DPM++ 2M SDE Exponential, DPM++ 2M SDE Heun, DPM++ 2M SDE Heun Karras, DPM++ 2M SDE Heun Exponential, DPM++ 3M SDE, DPM++ 3M SDE Karras, DPM++ 3M SDE Exponential (#12300, #12519, #12542)
• rework DDIM, PLMS, UniPC to use CFG denoiser same as in k-diffusion samplers:
  • makes all of them work with img2img
  • makes prompt composition posssible (AND)
  • makes them available for SDXL
• always show extra networks tabs in the UI (#11808)
• use less RAM when creating models (#11958, #12599)
• textual inversion inference support for SDXL
• extra networks UI: show metadata for SD checkpoints
• checkpoint merger: add metadata support
• prompt editing and attention: add support for whitespace after the number ([ red : green : 0.5 ]) (seed breaking change) (#12177)
• VAE: allow selecting own VAE for each checkpoint (in user metadata editor)
• VAE: add selected VAE to infotext
• options in main UI: add own separate setting for txt2img and img2img, correctly read values from pasted infotext, add setting for column count (#12551)
• add resize handle to txt2img and img2img tabs, allowing to change the amount of horizontable space given to generation parameters and resulting image gallery (#12687, #12723)
• change default behavior for batching cond/uncond -- now it's on by default, and is disabled by an UI setting (Optimizatios -> Batch cond/uncond) - if you are on lowvram/medvram and are getting OOM exceptions, you will need to enable it
• show current position in queue and make it so that requests are processed in the order of arrival (#12707)
• add --medvram-sdxl flag that only enables --medvram for SDXL models
• prompt editing timeline has separate range for first pass and hires-fix pass (seed breaking change) (#12457)

Minor:

• img2img batch: RAM savings, VRAM savings, .tif, .tiff in img2img batch (#12120, #12514, #12515)
• postprocessing/extras: RAM savings (#12479)
• XYZ: in the axis labels, remove pathnames from model filenames
• XYZ: support hires sampler (#12298)
• XYZ: new option: use text inputs instead of dropdowns (#12491)
• add gradio version warning
• sort list of VAE checkpoints (#12297)
• use transparent white for mask in inpainting, along with an option to select the color (#12326)
• move some settings to their own section: img2img, VAE
• add checkbox to show/hide dirs for extra networks
• Add TAESD(or more) options for all the VAE encode/decode operation (#12311)
• gradio theme cache, new gradio themes, along with explanation that the user can input his own values (#12346, #12355)
• sampler fixes/tweaks: s_tmax, s_churn, s_noise, s_tmax (#12354, #12356, #12357, #12358, #12375, #12521)
• update README.md with correct instructions for Linux installation (#12352)
• option to not save incomplete images, on by default (#12338)
• enable cond cache by default
• git autofix for repos that are corrupted (#12230)
• allow to open images in new browser tab by middle mouse button (#12379)
• automatically open webui in browser when running "locally" (#12254)
• put commonly used samplers on top, make DPM++ 2M Karras the default choice
• zoom and pan: option to auto-expand a wide image, improved integration (#12413, #12727)
• option to cache Lora networks in memory
• rework hires fix UI to use accordion
• face restoration and tiling moved to settings - use "Options in main UI" setting if you want them back
• change quicksettings items to have variable width
• Lora: add Norm module, add support for bias (#12503)
• Lora: output warnings in UI rather than fail for unfitting loras; switch to logging for error output in console
• support search and display of hashes for all extra network items (#12510)
• add extra noise param for img2img operations (#12564)
• support for Lora with bias (#12584)
• make interrupt quicker (#12634)
• configurable gallery height (#12648)
• make results column sticky (#12645)
• more hash filename patterns (#12639)
• make image viewer actually fit the whole page (#12635)
• make progress bar work independently from live preview display which results in it being updated a lot more often
• forbid Full live preview method for medvram and add a setting to undo the forbidding
• make it possible to localize tooltips and placeholders
• add option to align with sgm repo's sampling implementation (#12818)
• Restore faces and Tiling generation parameters have been moved to settings out of main UI
  • if you want to put them back into main UI, use Options in main UI setting on the UI page.

Extensions and API:

• gradio 3.41.2
• also bump versions for packages: transformers, GitPython, accelerate, scikit-image, timm, tomesd
• support tooltip kwarg for gradio elements: gr.Textbox(label='hello', tooltip='world')
• properly clear the total console progressbar when using txt2img and img2img from API
• add cmd_arg --disable-extra-extensions and --disable-all-extensions (#12294)
• shared.py and webui.py split into many files
• add --loglevel commandline argument for logging
• add a custom UI element that combines accordion and checkbox
• avoid importing gradio in tests because it spams warnings
• put infotext label for setting into OptionInfo definition rather than in a separate list
• make StableDiffusionProcessingImg2Img.mask_blur a property, make more inline with PIL GaussianBlur (#12470)
• option to make scripts UI without gr.Group
• add a way for scripts to register a callback for before/after just a single component's creation
• use dataclass for StableDiffusionProcessing
• store patches for Lora in a specialized module instead of inside torch
• support http/https URLs in API (#12663, #12698)
• add extra noise callback (#12616)
• dump current stack traces when exiting with SIGINT
• add type annotations for extra fields of shared.sd_model

Bug Fixes:

• Don't crash if out of local storage quota for javascriot localStorage
• XYZ plot do not fail if an exception occurs
• fix missing TI hash in infotext if generation uses both negative and positive TI (#12269)
• localization fixes (#12307)
• fix sdxl model invalid configuration after the hijack
• correctly toggle extras checkbox for infotext paste (#12304)
• open raw sysinfo link in new page (#12318)
• prompt parser: Account for empty field in alternating words syntax (#12319)
• add tab and carriage return to invalid filename chars (#12327)
• fix api only Lora not working (#12387)
• fix options in main UI misbehaving when there's just one element
• make it possible to use a sampler from infotext even if it's hidden in the dropdown
• fix styles missing from the prompt in infotext when making a grid of batch of multiplie images
• prevent bogus progress output in console when calculating hires fix dimensions
• fix --use-textbox-seed
• fix broken Lora/Networks: use old method option (#12466)
• properly return None for VAE hash when using --no-hashing (#12463)
• MPS/macOS fixes and optimizations (#12526)
• add second_order to samplers that mistakenly didn't have it
• when refreshing cards in extra networks UI, do not discard user's custom resolution
• fix processing error that happens if batch_size is not a multiple of how many prompts/negative prompts there are (#12509)
• fix inpaint upload for alpha masks (#12588)
• fix exception when image sizes are not integers (#12586)
• fix incorrect TAESD Latent scale (#12596)
• auto add data-dir to gradio-allowed-path (#12603)
• fix exception if extensuions dir is missing (#12607)
• fix issues with api model-refresh and vae-refresh (#12638)
• fix img2img background color for transparent images option not being used (#12633)
• attempt to resolve NaN issue with unstable VAEs in fp32 mk2 (#12630)
• implement missing undo hijack for SDXL
• fix xyz swap axes (#12684)
• fix errors in backup/restore tab if any of config files are broken (#12689)
• fix SD VAE switch error after model reuse (#12685)
• fix trying to create images too large for the chosen format (#12667)
• create Gradio temp directory if necessary (#12717)
• prevent possible cache loss if exiting as it's being written by using an atomic operation to replace the cache with the new version
• set devices.dtype_unet correctly
• run RealESRGAN on GPU for non-CUDA devices (#12737)
• prevent extra network buttons being obscured by description for very small card sizes (#12745)
• fix error that causes some extra networks to be disabled if both lora: and lyco: are present in the prompt
• fix defaults settings page breaking when any of main UI tabs are hidden
• fix incorrect save/display of new values in Defaults page in settings
• fix for Reload UI function: if you reload UI on one tab, other opened tabs will no longer stop working
• fix an error that prevents VAE being reloaded after an option change if a VAE near the checkpoint exists (#12797)
• hide broken image crop tool (#12792)
• don't show hidden samplers in dropdown for XYZ script (#12780)
• fix style editing dialog breaking if it's opened in both img2img and txt2img tabs
• fix a bug allowing users to bypass gradio and API authentication (reported by vysecurity)
• fix notification not playing when built-in webui tab is inactive (#12834)
• honor --skip-install for extension installers (#12832)
• don't print blank stdout in extension installers (#12833, #12855)
• do not change quicksettings dropdown option when value returned is None (#12854)
• get progressbar to display correctly in extensions tab

Features:

• refiner support #12371
• add NV option for Random number generator source setting, which allows to generate same pictures on CPU/AMD/Mac as on NVidia videocards
• add style editor dialog
• hires fix: add an option to use a different checkpoint for second pass (#12181)
• option to keep multiple loaded models in memory (#12227)
• new samplers: Restart, DPM++ 2M SDE Exponential, DPM++ 2M SDE Heun, DPM++ 2M SDE Heun Karras, DPM++ 2M SDE Heun Exponential, DPM++ 3M SDE, DPM++ 3M SDE Karras, DPM++ 3M SDE Exponential (#12300, #12519, #12542)
• rework DDIM, PLMS, UniPC to use CFG denoiser same as in k-diffusion samplers:
  • makes all of them work with img2img
  • makes prompt composition posssible (AND)
  • makes them available for SDXL
• always show extra networks tabs in the UI (#11808)
• use less RAM when creating models (#11958, #12599)
• textual inversion inference support for SDXL
• extra networks UI: show metadata for SD checkpoints
• checkpoint merger: add metadata support
• prompt editing and attention: add support for whitespace after the number ([ red : green : 0.5 ]) (seed breaking change) (#12177)
• VAE: allow selecting own VAE for each checkpoint (in user metadata editor)
• VAE: add selected VAE to infotext
• options in main UI: add own separate setting for txt2img and img2img, correctly read values from pasted infotext, add setting for column count (#12551)
• add resize handle to txt2img and img2img tabs, allowing to change the amount of horizontable space given to generation parameters and resulting image gallery (#12687, #12723)
• change default behavior for batching cond/uncond -- now it's on by default, and is disabled by an UI setting (Optimizatios -> Batch cond/uncond) - if you are on lowvram/medvram and are getting OOM exceptions, you will need to enable it
• show current position in queue and make it so that requests are processed in the order of arrival (#12707)
• add --medvram-sdxl flag that only enables --medvram for SDXL models
• prompt editing timeline has separate range for first pass and hires-fix pass (seed breaking change) (#12457)

Minor:

• img2img batch: RAM savings, VRAM savings, .tif, .tiff in img2img batch (#12120, #12514, #12515)
• postprocessing/extras: RAM savings (#12479)
• XYZ: in the axis labels, remove pathnames from model filenames
• XYZ: support hires sampler (#12298)
• XYZ: new option: use text inputs instead of dropdowns (#12491)
• add gradio version warning
• sort list of VAE checkpoints (#12297)
• use transparent white for mask in inpainting, along with an option to select the color (#12326)
• move some settings to their own section: img2img, VAE
• add checkbox to show/hide dirs for extra networks
• Add TAESD(or more) options for all the VAE encode/decode operation (#12311)
• gradio theme cache, new gradio themes, along with explanation that the user can input his own values (#12346, #12355)
• sampler fixes/tweaks: s_tmax, s_churn, s_noise, s_tmax (#12354, #12356, #12357, #12358, #12375, #12521)
• update README.md with correct instructions for Linux installation (#12352)
• option to not save incomplete images, on by default (#12338)
• enable cond cache by default
• git autofix for repos that are corrupted (#12230)
• allow to open images in new browser tab by middle mouse button (#12379)
• automatically open webui in browser when running "locally" (#12254)
• put commonly used samplers on top, make DPM++ 2M Karras the default choice
• zoom and pan: option to auto-expand a wide image, improved integration (#12413, #12727)
• option to cache Lora networks in memory
• rework hires fix UI to use accordion
• face restoration and tiling moved to settings - use "Options in main UI" setting if you want them back
• change quicksettings items to have variable width
• Lora: add Norm module, add support for bias (#12503)
• Lora: output warnings in UI rather than fail for unfitting loras; switch to logging for error output in console
• support search and display of hashes for all extra network items (#12510)
• add extra noise param for img2img operations (#12564)
• support for Lora with bias (#12584)
• make interrupt quicker (#12634)
• configurable gallery height (#12648)
• make results column sticky (#12645)
• more hash filename patterns (#12639)
• make image viewer actually fit the whole page (#12635)
• make progress bar work independently from live preview display which results in it being updated a lot more often
• forbid Full live preview method for medvram and add a setting to undo the forbidding
• make it possible to localize tooltips and placeholders

Extensions and API:

• gradio 3.41.0
• also bump versions for packages: transformers, GitPython, accelerate, scikit-image, timm, tomesd
• support tooltip kwarg for gradio elements: gr.Textbox(label='hello', tooltip='world')
• properly clear the total console progressbar when using txt2img and img2img from API
• add cmd_arg --disable-extra-extensions and --disable-all-extensions (#12294)
• shared.py and webui.py split into many files
• add --loglevel commandline argument for logging
• add a custom UI element that combines accordion and checkbox
• avoid importing gradio in tests because it spams warnings
• put infotext label for setting into OptionInfo definition rather than in a separate list
• make StableDiffusionProcessingImg2Img.mask_blur a property, make more inline with PIL GaussianBlur (#12470)
• option to make scripts UI without gr.Group
• add a way for scripts to register a callback for before/after just a single component's creation
• use dataclass for StableDiffusionProcessing
• store patches for Lora in a specialized module instead of inside torch
• support http/https URLs in API (#12663, #12698)
• add extra noise callback (#12616)
• dump current stack traces when exiting with SIGINT
• add type annotations for extra fields of shared.sd_model

Bug Fixes:

• Don't crash if out of local storage quota for javascriot localStorage
• XYZ plot do not fail if an exception occurs
• fix missing TI hash in infotext if generation uses both negative and positive TI (#12269)
• localization fixes (#12307)
• fix sdxl model invalid configuration after the hijack
• correctly toggle extras checkbox for infotext paste (#12304)
• open raw sysinfo link in new page (#12318)
• prompt parser: Account for empty field in alternating words syntax (#12319)
• add tab and carriage return to invalid filename chars (#12327)
• fix api only Lora not working (#12387)
• fix options in main UI misbehaving when there's just one element
• make it possible to use a sampler from infotext even if it's hidden in the dropdown
• fix styles missing from the prompt in infotext when making a grid of batch of multiplie images
• prevent bogus progress output in console when calculating hires fix dimensions
• fix --use-textbox-seed
• fix broken Lora/Networks: use old method option (#12466)
• properly return None for VAE hash when using --no-hashing (#12463)
• MPS/macOS fixes and optimizations (#12526)
• add second_order to samplers that mistakenly didn't have it
• when refreshing cards in extra networks UI, do not discard user's custom resolution
• fix processing error that happens if batch_size is not a multiple of how many prompts/negative prompts there are (#12509)
• fix inpaint upload for alpha masks (#12588)
• fix exception when image sizes are not integers (#12586)
• fix incorrect TAESD Latent scale (#12596)
• auto add data-dir to gradio-allowed-path (#12603)
• fix exception if extensuions dir is missing (#12607)
• fix issues with api model-refresh and vae-refresh (#12638)
• fix img2img background color for transparent images option not being used (#12633)
• attempt to resolve NaN issue with unstable VAEs in fp32 mk2 (#12630)
• implement missing undo hijack for SDXL
• fix xyz swap axes (#12684)
• fix errors in backup/restore tab if any of config files are broken (#12689)
• fix SD VAE switch error after model reuse (#12685)
• fix trying to create images too large for the chosen format (#12667)
• create Gradio temp directory if necessary (#12717)
• prevent possible cache loss if exiting as it's being written by using an atomic operation to replace the cache with the new version
• set devices.dtype_unet correctly
• run RealESRGAN on GPU for non-CUDA devices (#12737)
• prevent extra network buttons being obscured by description for very small card sizes (#12745)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/compare/v1.5.1...v1.6.0-RC

Bug Fixes:

• fix memory leak when generation fails
• update doggettx cross attention optimization to not use an unreasonable amount of memory in some edge cases -- suggestion by MorkTheOrk

Minor:

• support parsing text encoder blocks in some new LoRAs
• delete scale checker script due to user demand

Extensions and API:

• add postprocess_batch_list script callback

Bug Fixes:

• fix TI training for SD1
• fix reload altclip model error
• prepend the pythonpath instead of overriding it
• fix typo in SD_WEBUI_RESTARTING
• if txt2img/img2img raises an exception, finally call state.end()
• fix composable diffusion weight parsing
• restyle Startup profile for black users
• fix webui not launching with --nowebui
• catch exception for non git extensions
• fix some options missing from /sdapi/v1/options
• fix for extension update status always saying "unknown"
• fix display of extra network cards that have <> in the name
• update lora extension to work with python 3.8