Image Compare A/B drew a chip over the top-left of the picture carrying the
resolution and a hint about how to use the panel - covering part of what you
came to look at in order to say something you need once. The resolution moved
to a caption centred under the stage, and when the two sides are different
sizes both are named there: the panel scales them to fit, so nothing else on
screen would reveal the mismatch. The empty and error states still take the
middle of the stage, where there is no picture to hide.
HOLD became an A/B toggle. Press-and-hold meant the comparison only existed
while a mouse button was down, so the two images could never be held side by
side in memory. Each click now swaps the panel and the button names the side
you are looking at; flicking between them in place is how a small difference
actually becomes visible. A workflow saved on "hold" opens on the toggle it
became rather than quietly dropping back to slide.
The example workflow was stale in ways that would have shipped to Civitai:
its overview credited SimpleWatermarkRemover - the deprecated compatibility
id, not the node the graph actually uses - still called the node Refine Mask,
and linked to github.com/auboss, which does not exist. It gained model-setup
and requirements sections, consistent node titles, and the mask settings its
single-frame test was missing: that path shipped with every Mask Refine
control at zero, so the frame it previewed was not the result the full run
would produce, which is the one thing that test exists to show.
Five things surfaced by release testing.
Node search: ComfyUI's search dialog cuts at 64 results and ranks by
[match tier, global popularity, name length], where tier 1 needs the name
to START with what was typed. Popularity is a fixed global table in which
every node from a new pack scores zero, so tier is the only lever. As
"Refine Mask" this node came 121st for "mask" and was never on screen.
Renamed to Mask Refine, which is 15th, and kept "refine mask" as an alias.
The mapping key is untouched, so saved workflows are unaffected. Aliases
alone cannot fix this: the frontend indexes them but drops them from the
tier scoring because they are a list rather than a string, so they decide
whether a node is findable, not where it lands.
Previews: Mask Refine, LaMa Inpaint and Select Frame showed whatever fed
their input, which is nothing when a segmentation node is upstream - Mask
Refine's panel was blank however the mask turned out. Each now returns its
result as a preview and the panel shows that, falling back to the input
before the first run. A node does not need to be an OUTPUT_NODE for this;
returning a ui payload is enough. ComfyUI's own preview for these nodes is
stood down so the picture appears once, in the panel, rather than also
underneath the node. That also fixes LaMa finishing a single image with an
empty panel: frame previews were only attached for batches over one frame,
on the assumption that one image would preview through the output path,
which a non-output node does not have.
Mask Refine opens on expand and blur with the other five behind MORE.
Hidden widgets keep their values and their saved positions. AUTO sets both
from the mask's size, scaled off the 8/4 hand-tuned for the watermark
workflow at 576px, because a feather is a fraction of the picture rather
than a fixed pixel count.
Save Video gains nvenc h264/h265, webm av1, ProRes mov, lossless ffv1 mkv,
gif and webp, plus pingpong and save_metadata. Every format is encoded and
read back in the tests rather than trusted from its table row. fps steps in
whole frames but stays FLOAT: an INT would refuse Load Video's fps link and
round 29.97 to 30, drifting picture off audio. mov files now carry the
embedded workflow, which they silently did not. The reload button is gone -
it only re-fetched what was already on screen.
Not done: Select Frame's preview updates on a run, not as the number
changes. Seeking to a frame needs the source fps, which the browser never
learns, so live scrubbing needs a server route - the surface Frame Chooser
was just demoted for.
Every display name swaps ' (AusBoss)' for ' 🆎' - menus, docs, tooltips,
the README, and the example workflow's notes. Mapping keys never change,
so saved workflows keep loading; 'ausboss' keeps finding everything via
the category, the AUSBOSS_NODES_ prefix, and SEARCH_ALIASES. Python error
messages drop the suffix entirely so exception text stays ASCII for
cp1252 consoles.
The LM Studio endpoint toolbar declared no getMinHeight, so the frontend
gave its wrapper a 12px sliver and the buttons clipped; it now declares
32px through every sizing path, and the buttons breathe at 22px.
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