Features:

• Update torch to version 2.1.2
• Soft Inpainting
• FP8 support
• Support for SDXL-Inpaint Model
• Use Spandrel for upscaling and face restoration architectures
• 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
• Add a [✨] button to run hires fix on selected image in the gallery
• Separate assets repository; serve fonts locally rather than from google's servers
• Official LCM Sampler Support
• Add support for DAT upscaler models
• Extra Networks Tree View
• NPU Support
• Prompt comments support

Minor:

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

Extensions and API:

• Removed packages from requirements
• Enable task ids for API
• add override_settings support for infotext API
• rename generation_parameters_copypaste module to infotext_utils
• prevent crash due to Script __init__ exception
• Bump numpy to 1.26.2
• Add utility to inspect a model's dtype/device
• Implement general forward method for all method in built-in lora ext
• Execute model_loaded_callback after moving to target device
• Add self to CFGDenoiserParams
• Allow TLS with API only mode (--nowebui)
• New callback: postprocess_image_after_composite
• modules/api/api.py: add api endpoint to refresh embeddings list
• set_named_arg
• add before_token_counter callback and use it for prompt comments
• ResizeHandleRow - allow overriden column scale parameter