Release 2.9.0

Tiled Upscale and Tiled Upscale Stitch, with the Qwen Image 2.1 Upscale +
Restore example, and the Nodes 2.0 fix for Callout. The version pair, the
changelog title, the description and the keywords follow.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 All notable changes to ComfyUI-AusBoss are documented here.
 
-## Unreleased
+## 2.9.0 - 2026-10-06
 
 - **New: Tiled Upscale 🆎 and Tiled Upscale Stitch 🆎** (Image). Take a
   picture past the size a model can redraw in one go. Tiled Upscale has one

js/shared/index.mjs

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { app } from "/scripts/app.js";
 // Must match `version` in pyproject.toml — scripts/release_preflight.py
 // enforces it. The backend serves its copy at /ausboss/pack_version; a
 // mismatch means the browser cached JavaScript from an older install.
-export const AUSBOSS_JS_VERSION = "2.8.0";
+export const AUSBOSS_JS_VERSION = "2.9.0";
 
 export const BRAND = "#00b4aa"; // AusBoss teal — keep node accents consistent.
 export const BRAND_DARK = "#007f78";

pyproject.toml

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 name = "ausboss-nodes"
 # Manager/registry search matches against this text, so it names the actual
 # nodes instead of describing the collection abstractly.
-description = "ComfyUI-AusBoss (AusBoss nodes): image and video nodes with compact controls: Image and Video Crop + Rotate + Pad (frame or clip), Load Image + Pad, Image Folder (run a workflow on a folder of pictures), Image Resize, Align Image, Image Size, Color Match, Image Compare A/B, Realign to Source (experimental: lines an edited picture back up with the original), Save Image (PNG, lossless WebP/JXL, exact names, captions), Load Video, Save Video, Select Frame, Frame Interpolate, Mask Refine, Mask by Name (type what to find and get its mask, with ComfyUI's SAM 3), LaMa Inpaint, Crop For Inpaint, Stitch Inpaint, LoRA Loader, Krea 2 Encode and Outpaint Model Patch, Latent Size, Seed, Select Every Nth, Split Batch, Merge Batches, Text, Integer, Float, Math Expression, Show Text, Free Memory, Workflow Note, Callout (a note with big text and arrows), Workflow Switches (turn parts of a workflow off and on), and Run Timer. Example workflows for Qwen Image 2.1, Krea 2, Klein 9B and LTX 2.3."
-version = "2.8.0"
+description = "ComfyUI-AusBoss (AusBoss nodes): image and video nodes with compact controls: Image and Video Crop + Rotate + Pad (frame or clip), Load Image + Pad, Image Folder (run a workflow on a folder of pictures), Image Resize, Align Image, Image Size, Color Match, Image Compare A/B, Realign to Source (experimental: lines an edit back up with its source), Save Image (PNG, lossless WebP/JXL, exact names, captions), Load Video, Save Video, Select Frame, Frame Interpolate, Mask Refine, Mask by Name (type what to find, get its mask), LaMa Inpaint, Crop For Inpaint, Stitch Inpaint, Tiled Upscale and Tiled Upscale Stitch (upscale in tiles), LoRA Loader, Krea 2 Encode and Outpaint Model Patch, Latent Size, Seed, Select Every Nth, Split Batch, Merge Batches, Text, Integer, Float, Math Expression, Show Text, Free Memory, Workflow Note, Callout (a note with arrows), Workflow Switches (parts of a workflow off and on), and Run Timer. Example workflows for Qwen Image 2.1, Krea 2, Klein 9B and LTX 2.3."
+version = "2.9.0"
 # comfy-cli serializes this to JSON verbatim, so `file` publishes the literal
 # string {"file": "LICENSE"} to the registry listing. `text` puts a readable
 # name there instead. Both forms are supported; the LICENSE file is unchanged.
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ keywords = [
     "realign", "image edit",
     "mask by name", "sam3", "segment", "cut out", "workflow switches", "bypass",
     "image folder", "batch folder", "callout", "sticky note", "arrows",
+    "tiled upscale", "upscale", "tiles", "restore",
 ]
 
 # Read by comfy-cli into the registry's supported_os field. Nothing in the pack