Alpha v0.18.4

This version fixes a critical error that many people have experienced trying to install chaiNNer today, as well as adds a bunch of small new things and fixes some other bugs. While this is a smaller release, big things are coming soon :)

Changes/Additions

• Allow numbers as seeds (#1633)
• Reload starting nodes on file change (#1640)
• Various optimizations (#1653, #1664, #1667)
• Ctrl+Click on export button to export viewport to clipboard (#1658)
• Added model directory output for NCNN Load Model (#1663)
• Added blur noise to Create Noise (#1669)
• Added support for 2C2-ESRGAN architecture in PyTorch Load Model (#1670)
• Larger settings modal (#1675)

New Nodes

• Parse Number (#1621, thanks @JustNoon)
  • Parses numerical text into a number
• High Pass Filter (#1630, thanks @harisreedhar)
  • Performs a high pass filter on an image

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with backend starting up that started recently (#1695)
• Fixed overlapping handle connect radius (#1637)
• Fixed a bug connecting to SD webui (#1648)
• Fixed tiling for grayscale images (#1668)
• Fixed device detection for M2 Macbooks (#1674)

and as always thanks to the maintainers that contributed to this release: @joeyballentine @RunDevelopment @adodge