Highlights for 2025-10-31

Less than 2 weeks since last release, here's a service-pack style update with a lot of fixes and improvements:

  • Reorganization of Reference Models into Base, Quantized, Distilled and Community sections for easier navigation
    and introduction of optimized pre-quantized variants for many popular models - use this as your quick start!
  • New models:
    HunyuanImage 2.1 capable of 2K images natively, HunyuanImage 3.0 large unified multimodal autoregressive model,
    ChronoEdit that re-purposes temporal consistency of generation for image editing
    Pony 7 based on AuraFlow architecture, Kandinsky 5 10s video models
  • New offline mode to use previously downloaded models without internet connection
  • Optimizations to WAN-2.2 given its popularity
    plus addition of native VAE Upscaler and optimized pre-quantized variants
  • New SOTA model loader using Run:ai streamer
  • Updates to rocm and xpu backends
  • Fixes, fixes, fixes... too many to list here!
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Highlights for 2025-10-17

  • Torch: ROCm on Windows for AMD GPUs
    if you have a compatible GPU, performance gains are significant!
  • Models:
    a lot of new stuff with Qwen-Image-Edit including multi-image edits and distilled variants,
    new Flux, WAN, LTX, HiDream variants, expanded Nunchaku support and new SOTA upscaler with SeedVR2
    plus improved video support in general, including new methods of video encoding
  • Quantization:
    new SVD-style quantization using SDNQ offers almost zero-loss even with 4bit quantization
    and now you can also test your favorite quantization on-the-fly and then save/load model for future use
  • Other: support for Huggingface mirrors, changes to installer to prevent unwanted torch-cpu operations, improved previews, etc.
 

SD.Next Release 2025-08-15

New release two weeks after the last one and its a big one with over 150 commits!

  • Several new models: Qwen-Image (plus Lightning variant) and FLUX.1-Krea-Dev
  • Several updated models: Chroma, SkyReels-V2, Wan-VACE, HunyuanDiT
  • Plus continuing with major UI work with new embedded Docs/Wiki search, redesigned real-time hints, wildcards UI selector, built-in GPU monitor, CivitAI integration and more!

 

Refresh release two weeks after prior release, yet we still somehow managed to pack in ~150 commits!
Highlights would be two new models: Z-Image-Base and Anima, captioning support for tagger models and a massive addition of new schedulers
Also here are updates to torch and additional GPU archs support for ROCm backends, plus a lot of internal improvements and fixes.

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SD.Next Release 2026-10-29

What's new in this release?

  • New base model: Bria FIBO 2.0 and improvements to MOSS-Image and Ming-Image workflows
  • Major improvements to Prompt Enhance functionality to make it more versatile and cover usage in new structured/json based prompts
  • New playground feature Story Mode
  • Expanded native LoRA support with compatibility for multiple model types
  • Updates to AI Coding instructions and skills: try your favorite model/tool on SD.Next, you might be surprised how quickly it adapts and performs
  • Codebase cleanup: removed deprecated options that were left as legacy remnants
  • And many more smaller improvements and fixes...

[!IMPORTANT] Python 3.10 is end-of-life as of October 2026!

See changelog below for full details...

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