1.9.0

Features:

• Make refiner switchover based on model timesteps instead of sampling steps (#14978)
• add an option to have old-style directory view instead of tree view; stylistic changes for extra network sorting/search controls
• add UI for reordering callbacks, support for specifying callback order in extension metadata (#15205)
• Sgm uniform scheduler for SDXL-Lightning models (#15325)
• Scheduler selection in main UI (#15333, #15361, #15394)

Minor:

• "open images directory" button now opens the actual dir (#14947)
• Support inference with LyCORIS BOFT networks (#14871, #14973)
• make extra network card description plaintext by default, with an option to re-enable HTML as it was
• resize handle for extra networks (#15041)
• cmd args: --unix-filenames-sanitization and --filenames-max-length (#15031)
• show extra networks parameters in HTML table rather than raw JSON (#15131)
• Add DoRA (weight-decompose) support for LoRA/LoHa/LoKr (#15160, #15283)

Extensions and API:

• ResizeHandleRow - allow overriden column scale parametr (#15004)
• call script_callbacks.ui_settings_callback earlier; fix extra-options-section built-in extension killing the ui if using a setting that doesn't exist
• make it possible to use zoom.js outside webui context (#15286, #15288)
• allow variants for extension name in metadata.ini (#15290)
• make reloading UI scripts optional when doing Reload UI, and off by default
• put request: gr.Request at start of img2img function similar to txt2img
• open_folder as util (#15442)
• make it possible to import extensions' script files as import scripts.<filename> (#15423)

Performance:

• performance optimization for extra networks HTML pages
• optimization for extra networks filtering
• optimization for extra networks sorting

Bug Fixes:

• prevent escape button causing an interrupt when no generation has been made yet
• [bug] avoid doble upscaling in inpaint (#14966)
• possible fix for reload button not appearing in some cases for extra networks.
• fix: the split_threshold parameter does not work when running Split oversized images (#15006)
• Fix resize-handle visability for vertical layout (mobile) (#15010)
• register_tmp_file also for mtime (#15012)
• Protect alphas_cumprod during refiner switchover (#14979)
• Fix EXIF orientation in API image loading (#15062)
• Only override emphasis if actually used in prompt (#15141)

Hardware:

• Add training support and change lspci for Ascend NPU (#14981)
• Update to ROCm5.7 and PyTorch (#14820)
• Better workaround for Navi1, removing --pre for Navi3 (#15224)
• Ascend NPU wiki page (#15228)

Other:

• Update comment for Pad prompt/negative prompt v0 to add a warning about truncation, make it override the v1 implementation
• support resizable columns for touch (tablets) (#15002)
• Fix #14591 using translated content to do categories mapping (#14995)
• Use absolute path for normalized filepath (#15035)
• resizeHandle handle double tap (#15065)
• --dat-models-path cmd flag (#15039)
• Add a direct link to the binary release (#15059)
• upscaler_utils: Reduce logging (#15084)
• Fix various typos with crate-ci/typos (#15116)