1.7.0-RC

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)