- Add /aria2/start and /aria2/stop API endpoints for explicit daemon lifecycle control
- Track aria2 daemon state (managed/running/version/active_transfers) in get_aria2_status
- Implement idle auto-stop timer (5 minutes) with aria2_auto_stop_daemon setting
- Add start_aria2_daemon() and stop_aria2_daemon() helpers in core/downloader.py
- Migrate legacy release-* install directories to normalized versioned paths
- Normalize aria2 version strings (strip release-/v prefixes) in installer metadata
- Update aria2 archive extraction to extract-to-temp then copy into canonical dir
- Add frontend daemon controls: status display, stop button, auto-stop toggle
Integrates aria2c as an alternative download backend alongside the built-in
Python downloader. Adds settings for selecting the backend and configuring
the aria2c executable path, plus a status check button in the options panel.
Backend changes:
- core/downloader.py: aria2 daemon lifecycle, JSON-RPC client, pause/resume
state machine, and transfer tracking
- core/settings.py: download_backend normalization and aria2c_path setting
- __init__.py: new API routes for pause, resume, and aria2 status checks
Frontend changes:
- options_methods.js: backend selector, aria2c path input, check button,
and local storage persistence
- resolve_download_methods.js: pause/resume handlers, pending status
transitions, and progress rendering for aria2 downloads
- queue_methods.js: queue panel pause/resume buttons, backend badge, and
debounced panel updates
- search_panel.js: actionsHtml support for composite action buttons
- Expand preferred categories to include clip_vision, ipadapter, sams, ultralytics
- Add clip_gguf alias for text_encoders in both backend and frontend
- Add explicit diffusion_models/text_encoders mappings in CATEGORY_MAP
- Refactor get_model_roots to skip custom_nodes/configs, use template key
aliases, accept new folder keys from known categories, and normalize
ultralytics paths (yolo/bbox, yolo/segm, yolo -> parent)
- Pass missing object through resolve_download_methods and search_panel
so category selection can use widget hints
- Refactor frontend download target resolution:
- getMissingSupportedDownloadCategories respects widget/type hints
- getNodeTypeDownloadCategory splits exact-node map and adds
normalizeNodeCategoryToken / getNodeTypeDownloadCategoryFromTokens
for GGUF and future node families
- getSourceResultDownloadCategory and _sourceSupportLevel accept
missing for unified logic
- Prioritize dynamic widget category hints in workflow analyzer and
include category_hints/folder_key_hints on all model refs
- Add folder count badges and path normalization in missing browser
(normalizeMissingFolderRootPath handles category suffixes / bbox/segm)
Move CATEGORY_MAP, normalize_download_category, URN_TYPE_MAP,
CIVITAI_API_TYPE_MAP, and CIVARCHIVE_API_TYPE_MAP into type_utils.py
so they are defined once and imported by settings, civitai, civarchive,
and workflow_analyzer instead of being duplicated across modules.
Add support for additional ComfyUI model types including diffusers, gligen,
style models (latent/regular upscale), audio encoders, background removal,
frame interpolation, geometry estimation, detection, model patches/photomaker,
and optical flow models.
Backend changes:
- Extend CATEGORY_MAP, URN_TYPE_MAP, and node type hints in workflow analyzer
to cover dozens of new loader node types and singular/plural aliases.
- Add MODEL_OUTPUT_TYPE_TO_CATEGORY and get_node_output_category_hint() so
loader output types can contribute category hints.
- Make widget name matching normalize underscores, hyphens, and spaces.
- Improve directory discovery to enumerate folders from folder_paths while
filtering unsupported categories.
- Include folders as model entries in directory scanning (with a diffusers
guard requiring model_index.json).
Frontend changes:
- Update download target category maps, display names, token name maps, and
per-node widget index lists to match the expanded backend coverage.
Implements a new download path configuration UI and backend logic:
- Add Subfolder fill mode: Suggested (existing), Template, Manual
- Add Base Model Path Mappings to override detected base-model folders
- Add Default Root settings to control root directory per category
- Add Detect From Existing Folders button that infers templates and mappings from local model folders
- Add backend /model_resolver/root-directories and /model_resolver/path-template-suggestions routes
- Refactor resolver settings into core/settings.py for shared frontend/backend use
- Extract path template inference logic into core/path_templates.py
- Update download panel, context menu, and loading flow to use new path settings
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