Beta!

Swarm is now in Beta status! After months of "Alpha" status, I'm ready to say Swarm is one of the best Stable Diffusion UIs out there, and for many use cases simply the best.

• Brand new to Stable Diffusion? Swarm is crazy easy to install and set up and will literally guide you through how to get started in-UI.
• Inexperienced? There's a ? on every param to tell you how each feature works, and most features you might care about are available out of the box. There's tab completions for prompt syntax. Everything is ready to help you.
• Pro and want a friendly UI? Swarm's main Generate tab is one of the friendliest out there.
• Pro and want to maximize your comfy noodle hackery? Swarm wraps comfy in a tab and provides power features such as a workflow browser, the ability to generate reference workflows for you, the ability to reformat your favorite workflow into a friendly interface, large scale gridding, multi-GPU support, ...
• Large scale commercial user? Swarm provides a great frontend for you to start building with and debug with, and a powerful backend + splitting engine + etc., and a friendly license.

Also here's a Reddit announcement post about the beta: https://new.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1bbgsl8/stableswarmui_beta/

Major Updates

• We've moved to the MIT License, meaning Swarm itself is now free to use for all users, even commercially. Note that models have their own licenses still.
• Added multi-language support! You can now select languages from the list menu at the top of the UI - feature announcement: https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI/discussions/11#discussioncomment-8131492
• new theme added in a PR by QuantumSoul
  • and the existing themes now look a little better and respond well to a wider parameters view, thanks to the same PR
• Stable Cascade supported natively https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI/discussions/11#discussioncomment-8521943
• added a Comfy Workflow browser to the top of the comfy tab, now you can easily browse your saved workflows - https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI/discussions/11#discussioncomment-8736304
• Updated core to .NET 8, removing the dependency on .NET 7

Minor Updates

• video by default now has smarter parameters that result in better quality videos with SVD
• added Refiner Steps param
• refiner save-before-refining is now a general "Save Intermediate Images" that can also save before segmentation
• added automatic recognition for "Matrix" app formatted model metadata files
• gridgenerator now has convenient autoreplacables in web-page output folder name
• experimental AMD GPU auto-support in installer. Doesn't work great.
• added "Video Boomerang" advanced option checkbox
• added video resolution parameter
• added native support for frame interpolation from https://github.com/Fannovel16/ComfyUI-Frame-Interpolation in video params
• added user setting to exclude params from the "Reuse Parameters" button
• added swarm internal 'image format' parameter override for convenience especially with api usage
• added a close button to the image editor (most requested feature of 2024 lol)
• the image editor has a working selector tool now, which also can be used to automatically create a regional prompt with a simple button press
• added support for GLIGEN - only for SDv1 models, under Advanced parameters -> Regional Prompting, you can select a model as long as you have one installed per https://comfyanonymous.github.io/ComfyUI_examples/gligen/
• added image history sort-by (Name vs Date and a Reverse option)
• new parameter: ShiftedLatentAverageInit under advanced sampling - empty latents are normally initialized as zeroes, but that's not the correct average value for VAEs. Check this box to use actual channel-average values (based on FFHQ dataset as calculated by Birchlabs https://huggingface.co/datasets/Birchlabs/sdxl-latents-ffhq)
• added <break> syntax to separate conditioning manually to multiple parts
• improved the install and launch scripts for all platforms (no longer rebuilds the C# code every launch, now only when you update or launch with the dev mode powershell script)

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ps yes of course when SD3 comes out Swarm will support it right away.