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This release upgrades the Workflow Editor's Linear View to a more fully-featured Form Builder. It also includes many other fixes and enhancements, including the adoption of @skunkworxdark's excellent metadata nodes into Invoke's core nodes.

The launcher has recently been updated to v1.4.1, fixing a minor memory leak.

Form Builder

Nodeologists may now create more sophisticated UIs for their workflows using the Form Builder. This replaces the older Linear View feature.

In addition to Node Fields, you may add Heading, Text, Container and Divider elements to the form. Some form elements are configurable. For example, Containers support row or column layouts, and certain Node Field types can render different UI components.

Here's a brief demo of the Form Builder, touching on the core functionality:

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Your existing workflows with the Linear View fields will automatically be migrated to the new format.

We'll be iterating on the Form Builder and extending its capabilities in future updates.

Other Changes

@skunkworxdark's Metadata Nodes ship with Invoke

We are pleased to bring this popular node pack into the core Invoke repo! Thanks to @skunkworxdark for allowing us to adopt these nodes, and for their continued support of the project.

After you update to v5.7.0, if you have the node pack installed as custom nodes, you will see an error when on start up. It's saying that you already have these nodes installed. Everything should work fine - but you'll need to delete the node pack to get rid of the error.

Enhancements

  • Increase default VAE tile size to 1024, reducing "grid" artifacts in images generated on the Upscaling tab.
  • Failed or canceled queue items may be retried via the queue tab.
  • Canvas color picker now supports transparency.
  • Canvas color picker shows RGBA values next to it.
  • Minor redesign/improved styles throughout the Workflow Editor.
  • When attempting to load a workflow while you have unsaved changes, a dialog will appear asking to you confirm. Previously it would just load the workflow and you'd lose any unsaved work.
  • When a node has an invalid field, its title will be error-colored.
  • Less ginormous image field component in nodes.
  • Node fields now have editable descriptions.
  • Double-click a node to zoom to it.
  • Click the bullseye icon in a Form Builder node field to zoom to the node.
  • ❗Minor Breaking Change: Board fields now have an Auto option in the drop-down. When set to Auto, the auto-add board will be used for that board field. Auto is the new default. Workflows that previously had None (Uncategorized) selected will now have Auto selected.
  • Add Dynamic Prompts (Random) and Dynamic Prompts (Combinatorial) modes to the String Generator node.
  • Add Image Generator node with Images from Board mode. Select a board and category to run a batch over its images.

Fixes

  • Canvas mouse cursor disappears when certain layer types and tools are selected.
  • Canvas color picker doesn't work when certain layer types are selected.
  • Sometimes mask layers don't render until you zoom or pan.
  • When using shift-click to draw a straight line, if the canvas was moved too much between the clicks, the line got cut off.
  • Incorrect node suggestions when dropping an edge into empty space.
  • When loading a workflow with fields that reference unavailable models, the fields were not always reset correctly.
  • If an image collection field referenced images that were deleted, it was impossible to delete them without emptying the whole collection.
  • Lag/stutters in the Add Node popover.
  • When deleting a board and its images, we didn't check if any of the deleted images were used in an image collection field, potentially leading to errors when attempting to use a nonexistent image.

Internal

  • Upgraded reactflow to v12. This major release provides no new user-facing features, but does feature improved performance.
  • Upgraded @reduxjs/toolkit to latest. A new utility allows for more efficient cache management and yields a minor perf improvement to gallery load times.
  • Numerous performance improvements throughout the workflow editor. Many code paths were revised and components restructured to improve performance. Some CSS transitions were disabled for performance reasons.
  • Substantial performance improvement for batch queuing logic (i.e. the stuff that happens between clicking Invoke and the progress bar starts moving).
  • Improved custom node loading. For each node pack, if an error occurs while loading it, importing of that pack's nodes will stop and Invoke will skip to the next node pack. This may result in only some nodes from a pack loading, but the app will still run. Previously, any error prevented Invoke from starting up.

Installing and Updating

The new 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.

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.

The launcher has recently been updated to v1.4.1, fixing a minor memory leak.

What's Changed

Full Changelog: v5.6.2...v5.7.0

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