From 4982bd6ec9da6fa0f41b7366166f11b1ac46b5f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcel Hofer <49859266+goodguy1963@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:58:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore: prepare v2.3.18 release

---
 __init__.py       |  2 +-
 custom_nodes.json |  2 +-
 pyproject.toml    |  2 +-
 update.md         | 13 +++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py
index 756646b..907df6e 100644
--- a/__init__.py
+++ b/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     "name": "ComfyUI-ThinkingLLM",
     "description": "A multimodal ComfyUI AI node with Qwen3.5, Qwen3-VL, Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen3, and Gemma 4 integrations. Features live thinking in the terminal to see what the LLM is doing in real time.",
     "author": "goodguy1963",
-    "version": "2.3.17",
+    "version": "2.3.18",
     "url": "https://github.com/goodguy1963/ComfyUI-ThinkingLLM",
     "category": "image"
 }
diff --git a/custom_nodes.json b/custom_nodes.json
index fdc756c..cd839fd 100644
--- a/custom_nodes.json
+++ b/custom_nodes.json
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@
   "description": "A multimodal ComfyUI AI node with Qwen3.5, Qwen3-VL, Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen3, and Gemma 4 integrations. Features live thinking in the terminal to see what the LLM is doing in real time.",
   "category": "image",
   "tags": ["vision", "language", "multimodal", "thinkingllm", "qwen", "gguf", "flash_attention", "performance", "wan2.2", "video", "i2v", "t2v", "storyboard", "caching", "fork", "gpl-3.0"],
-  "version": "2.3.17"
+  "version": "2.3.18"
 }
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e192699..5cb20dc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name = "ComfyUI-ThinkingLLM"
 description = "A multimodal ComfyUI AI node with Qwen3.5, Qwen3-VL, Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen3, and Gemma 4 integrations. Features live thinking in the terminal to see what the LLM is doing in real time."
-version = "2.3.17"
+version = "2.3.18"
 license = {file = "LICENSE"}
 dependencies = ["transformers>=5.2.0", "torch", "huggingface-hub", "hf_xet", "psutil", "numpy", "Pillow", "opencv-python", "bitsandbytes", "accelerate", "sentencepiece", "tiktoken", "faster-whisper", "llama-cpp-python"]
 
diff --git a/update.md b/update.md
index 52914a7..5319961 100644
--- a/update.md
+++ b/update.md
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # ComfyUI-QwenVL Update Log
 
+## Version 2.3.18 (2026/07/21) - Advanced Mask Preview
+
+### 2.3.18 Changes
+
+- Added a `MASK_PREVIEW` image output to the Hugging Face and GGUF advanced vision nodes.
+- The preview shows selected pixels at normal brightness and surrounding context dimmed to 20%.
+- Simple nodes keep their existing two-output workflow contract.
+- Documented how to connect `MASK_PREVIEW` to a ComfyUI Preview Image node.
+
+### 2.3.18 Validation
+
+- All 98 regression tests pass.
+
 ## Version 2.3.17 (2026/07/21) - Mask-Focused Image Editing
 
 ### 2.3.17 Changes