v6.8.0

This minor release includes a handful of fixes and enhancements.

Fixes

• When accepting raster layer adjustments, the opacity of the layer was "baked" in.
• Corrected help text for non-in-place model installation. Previously, the help text said that a non-in-place model install would copy the model files. This is incorrect; it moves them into the Invoke-managed models dir.
• Failure to queue generations with an error like Failed to Queue Batch / Unknown Error.

Enhancements

• Added a crop tool. For now, it is only enabled for Global Ref Images.
  • Click the crop icon on the Ref Image preview to open the tool.
  • Adjust the crop box and click apply to save the cropped image for that ref image.
  • To revert, open the crop tool, click Reset, then Apply to revert to the original image.
  • We'll explore integrating this new tool elsewhere in the app in a future update.
• Improved Model Manager tab UI. Thanks @joshistoast!
• Keyboard shortcuts to navigate prompt history. Use alt/option+up/down to move through history.
• Support for the NOOB-IPA-MARK1 IP Adapter. Thanks @Iq1pl!

Internal

• Support for dynamic model drop-downs in Workflow Editor. This change greatly reduces the amount of frontend code changes needed to support a new model type. Node authors may need to update their nodes to prevent warnings from being displayed. However, there are no breakages expected. See #8577 for more details.

Installing and Updating

The Invoke Launcher is the recommended way to install, update and run Invoke. It takes care of a lot of details for you - like installing the right version of python - and runs Invoke as a desktop application.

Note: With recent updates to torch, users on older GPUs (20xx and 10xx series) will likely run into issues with installing/updating. We are still evaluating how we can support older GPUs, but in the meantime users have found success manually downgrading torch. Head over to discord if you need help.

Follow the Quick Start guide to get started with the launcher.

If you don't want to use the launcher, or need a headless install, you can follow the manual install guide.

What's Changed

• fix(ui): do not reset params state on studio init nav to generate tab by @psychedelicious in #8572
• feat(model manager): 💄 refactor model manager ui by @joshistoast in #8564
• Prompt history shortcuts by @hipsterusername in #8571
• feat(ui): crop tool by @psychedelicious in #8562
• chore: prep for v6.8.0rc1 by @psychedelicious in #8574
• fix(ui): allow scrolling in ModelPane by @joshistoast in #8580
• added support for NOOB-IPA-MARK1 by @Iq1pl in #8576
• feat: dynamic model fields in workflow editor by @psychedelicious in #8577
• ui: translations update from weblate by @weblate in #8575
• fix(ui): ref images for flux kontext not parsed correctly by @psychedelicious in #8587
• feat(nodes): better ui_type deprecations by @psychedelicious in #8586
• restore list_queue_items method by @maryhipp in #8583
• fix(ui): do not bake opacity when rasterizing layer adjustments by @psychedelicious in #8592
• fix(ui): correct the in-place install verbiage, add tooltip by @psychedelicious in #8593
• docs: add BiRefNet and Image Export to communityNodes.md by @veeliks in #8602
• chore: prep for v6.8.0rc2 by @psychedelicious in #8581
• chore: prep for v6.8.0 by @psychedelicious in #8604

New Contributors

• @Iq1pl made their first contribution in #8576
• @veeliks made their first contribution in #8602

Full Changelog: v6.7.0...v6.8.0