SD.Next Release 2025-02-24

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SD.Next Release 2025-02-24

Primarily a hotfix/service release plus few UI improvements and one exciting new feature: Remote-VAE!

• Remote Decode
  • final step of image generate, VAE decode, is by far the most memory intensive operation and can easily result in out-of-memory errors
    what can be done? Well, Huggingface is now providing free-of-charge remote-VAE-decode service!
  • how to use? previous Full quality option in UI is replaced with VAE type selector: Full, Tiny, Remote
    currently supports SD15, SDXL and FLUX.1 with more models expected in the near future
    depending on your bandwidth select mode in settings -> vae -> raw/png/jpg
    if remote processing fails SD.Next will fallback to using normal VAE decode process
    privacy note: only passed item is final latent itself without any user or generate information and latent is not stored in the cloud
• UI
  • modern ui reorg main tab
    improve styling, improve scripts/extensions interface and separate ipadapters
  • additional ui hints
• Other
  • add --extensions-dir cli arg and SD_EXTENSIONSDIR env variable to specify extensions directory
  • update zluda==3.9.0
• Fixes
  • skip trying to register legacy/incompatibile extensions in control ui
  • add additional scripts/extensions callbacks
  • remove ui splash screen on auth fail
  • log full config path, full log path, system name, extensions path
  • zluda hotfixes
  • zluda force sync
  • fix torch import on compile
  • infotext parser force delimiter before params
  • handle pipeline class switch errors