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The original was posted on /r/stablediffusion by /u/vmandic on 2024-02-07 18:52:38.

Another big SD.Next release just hit the shelves!

Highlights

  • A lot more functionality in the Control module:
    • Inpaint and outpaint support, flexible resizing options, optional hires
    • Built-in support for many new processors and models, all auto-downloaded on first use
    • Full support for scripts and extensions
  • Complete Face module

implements all variations of FaceID, FaceSwap and latest PhotoMaker and InstantID

  • Much enhanced IPAdapter modules
  • Brand new Intelligent masking, manual or automatic

Using ML models (LAMA object removal, REMBG background removal, SAM segmentation, etc.) and with live previews

With granular blur, erode and dilate controls

  • New models and pipelines:

Segmind SegMoE, Mixture Tiling, InstaFlow, SAG, BlipDiffusion

  • Massive work integrating latest advances with OpenVINO, IPEX and ONNX Olive
  • Full control over brightness, sharpness and color shifts and color grading during generate process directly in latent space
  • Documentation! This was a big one, with a lot of new content and updates in the WiKi

Plus welcome additions to UI performance, usability and accessibility and flexibility of deployment as well as API improvements

And it also includes fixes for all reported issues so far

As of this release, default backend is set to diffusers as its more feature rich than original and supports many additional models (original backend does remain as fully supported)

Also, previous versions of SD.Next were tuned for balance between performance and resource usage.

With this release, focus is more on performance.

See Benchmark notes for details, but as a highlight, we are now hitting ~110-150 it/s on a standard nVidia RTX4090 in optimal scenarios!

Further details:

  • For basic instructions, see README

  • For more details on all new features see full CHANGELOG

  • For documentation, see WiKi

(I’ll post few highlight screenshots in replies not to make this post too long)