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+## 1.8.0-RC
+
+### Features:
+* Update torch to version 2.1.2
+* Soft Inpainting ([#14208](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14208))
+* FP8 support ([#14031](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14031), [#14327](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14327))
+* Support for SDXL-Inpaint Model ([#14390](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14390))
+* Use Spandrel for upscaling and face restoration architectures ([#14425](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14425), [#14467](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14467), [#14473](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14473), [#14474](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14474), [#14477](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14477), [#14476](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14476), [#14484](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14484), [#14500](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-difusion-webui/pull/14500), [#14501](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14501), [#14504](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14504), [#14524](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14524), [#14809](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14809))
+* Automatic backwards version compatibility (when loading infotexts from old images with program version specified, will add compatibility settings)
+* Implement zero terminal SNR noise schedule option (**[SEED BREAKING CHANGE](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki/Seed-breaking-changes#180-dev-170-225-2024-01-01---zero-terminal-snr-noise-schedule-option)**, [#14145](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14145), [#14979](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14979))
+* Add a [✨] button to run hires fix on selected image in the gallery (with help from [#14598](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14598), [#14626](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14626), [#14728](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14728))
+* [Separate assets repository](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui-assets); serve fonts locally rather than from google's servers
+* Official LCM Sampler Support ([#14583](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14583))
+* Add support for DAT upscaler models ([#14690](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14690), [#15039](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/15039))
+* Extra Networks Tree View ([#14588](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14588), [#14900](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14900))
+* NPU Support ([#14801](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14801))
+* Propmpt comments support
+
+### Minor:
+* Allow pasting in WIDTHxHEIGHT strings into the width/height fields ([#14296](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14296))
+* add option: Live preview in full page image viewer ([#14230](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14230), [#14307](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14307))
+* Add keyboard shortcuts for generate/skip/interrupt ([#14269](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14269))
+* Better TCMALLOC support on different platforms ([#14227](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14227), [#14883](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14883), [#14910](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14910))
+* Lora not found warning ([#14464](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14464))
+* Adding negative prompts to Loras in extra networks ([#14475](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14475))
+* xyz_grid: allow varying the seed along an axis separate from axis options ([#12180](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/12180))
+* option to convert VAE to bfloat16 (implementation of [#9295](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/9295))
+* Better IPEX support ([#14229](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14229), [#14353](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14353), [#14559](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14559), [#14562](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14562), [#14597](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14597))
+* Option to interrupt after current generation rather than immediately ([#13653](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/13653), [#14659](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14659))
+* Fullscreen Preview control fading/disable ([#14291](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14291))
+* Finer settings freezing control ([#13789](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/13789))
+* Increase Upscaler Limits ([#14589](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14589))
+* Adjust brush size with hotkeys ([#14638](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14638))
+* Add checkpoint info to csv log file when saving images ([#14663](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14663))
+* Make more columns resizable ([#14740](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14740), [#14884](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14884))
+* Add an option to not overlay original image for inpainting for #14727
+* Add Pad conds v0 option to support same generation with DDIM as before 1.6.0
+* Add "Interrupting..." placeholder.
+* Button for refresh extensions list ([#14857](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14857))
+* Add an option to disable normalization after calculating emphasis. ([#14874](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14874))
+* When counting tokens, also include enabled styles (can be disabled in settings to revert to previous behavior)
+* Configuration for the [📂] button for image gallery ([#14947](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14947))
+* Support inference with LyCORIS BOFT networks ([#14871](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14871), [#14973](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14973))
+* support resizable columns for touch (tablets) ([#15002](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/15002))
+
+### Extensions and API:
+* Removed packages from requirements: basicsr, gfpgan, realesrgan; as well as their dependencies: absl-py, addict, beautifulsoup4, future, gdown, grpcio, importlib-metadata, lmdb, lpips, Markdown, platformdirs, PySocks, soupsieve, tb-nightly, tensorboard-data-server, tomli, Werkzeug, yapf, zipp, soupsieve
+* Enable task ids for API ([#14314](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14314))
+* add override_settings support for infotext API
+* rename generation_parameters_copypaste module to infotext_utils
+* prevent crash due to Script __init__ exception ([#14407](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14407))
+* Bump numpy to 1.26.2 ([#14471](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14471))
+* Add utility to inspect a model's dtype/device ([#14478](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14478))
+* Implement general forward method for all method in built-in lora ext ([#14547](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14547))
+* Execute model_loaded_callback after moving to target device ([#14563](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14563))
+* Add self to CFGDenoiserParams ([#14573](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14573))
+* Allow TLS with API only mode (--nowebui) ([#14593](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14593))
+* New callback: postprocess_image_after_composite ([#14657](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14657))
+* modules/api/api.py: add api endpoint to refresh embeddings list ([#14715](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14715))
+* set_named_arg ([#14773](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14773))
+* add before_token_counter callback and use it for prompt comments
+* ResizeHandleRow - allow overriden column scale parameter ([#15004](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/15004))
+
+### Performance
+* Massive performance improvement for extra networks directories with a huge number of files in them in an attempt to tackle #14507 ([#14528](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14528))
+* Reduce unnecessary re-indexing extra networks directory ([#14512](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14512))
+* Avoid unnecessary `isfile`/`exists` calls ([#14527](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14527))
+
+### Bug Fixes:
+* fix multiple bugs related to styles multi-file support ([#14203](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14203), [#14276](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14276), [#14707](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14707))
+* Lora fixes ([#14300](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14300), [#14237](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14237), [#14546](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14546), [#14726](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14726))
+* Re-add setting lost as part of e294e46 ([#14266](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14266))
+* fix extras caption BLIP ([#14330](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14330))
+* include infotext into saved init image for img2img ([#14452](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14452))
+* xyz grid handle axis_type is None ([#14394](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14394))
+* Update Added (Fixed) IPV6 Functionality When there is No Webui Argument Passed webui.py ([#14354](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14354))
+* fix API thread safe issues of txt2img and img2img ([#14421](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14421))
+* handle selectable script_index is None ([#14487](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14487))
+* handle config.json failed to load ([#14525](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14525), [#14767](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14767))
+* paste infotext cast int as float ([#14523](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14523))
+* Ensure GRADIO_ANALYTICS_ENABLED is set early enough ([#14537](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14537))
+* Fix logging configuration again ([#14538](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14538))
+* Handle CondFunc exception when resolving attributes ([#14560](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14560))
+* Fix extras big batch crashes ([#14699](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14699))
+* Fix using wrong model caused by alias ([#14655](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14655))
+* Add # to the invalid_filename_chars list ([#14640](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14640))
+* Fix extension check for requirements ([#14639](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14639))
+* Fix tab indexes are reset after restart UI ([#14637](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14637))
+* Fix nested manual cast ([#14689](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14689))
+* Keep postprocessing upscale selected tab after restart ([#14702](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14702))
+* XYZ grid: filter out blank vals when axis is int or float type (like int axis seed) ([#14754](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14754))
+* fix CLIP Interrogator topN regex ([#14775](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14775))
+* Fix dtype error in MHA layer/change dtype checking mechanism for manual cast ([#14791](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14791))
+* catch load style.csv error ([#14814](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14814))
+* fix error when editing extra networks card
+* fix extra networks metadata failing to work properly when you create the .json file with metadata for the first time.
+* util.walk_files extensions case insensitive ([#14879](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14879))
+* if extensions page not loaded, prevent apply ([#14873](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14873))
+* call the right function for token counter in img2img
+* Fix the bugs that search/reload will disappear when using other ExtraNetworks extensions ([#14939](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14939))
+* Gracefully handle mtime read exception from cache ([#14933](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14933))
+* Only trigger interrupt on `Esc` when interrupt button visible ([#14932](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14932))
+* Disable prompt token counters option actually disables token counting rather than just hiding results.
+* avoid doble upscaling in inpaint ([#14966](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14966))
+* Fix #14591 using translated content to do categories mapping ([#14995](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14995))
+* fix: the `split_threshold` parameter does not work when running Split oversized images ([#15006](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/15006))
+* Fix resize-handle for mobile ([#15010](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/15010), [#15065](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/15065))
+
+### Other:
+* Assign id for "extra_options". Replace numeric field with slider. ([#14270](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14270))
+* change state dict comparison to ref compare ([#14216](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14216))
+* Bump torch-rocm to 5.6/5.7 ([#14293](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14293))
+* Base output path off data path ([#14446](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14446))
+* reorder training preprocessing modules in extras tab ([#14367](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14367))
+* Remove `cleanup_models` code ([#14472](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14472))
+* only rewrite ui-config when there is change ([#14352](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14352))
+* Fix lint issue from 501993eb ([#14495](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14495))
+* Update README.md ([#14548](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14548))
+* hires button, fix seeds ()
+* Logging: set formatter correctly for fallback logger too ([#14618](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14618))
+* Read generation info from infotexts rather than json for internal needs (save, extract seed from generated pic) ([#14645](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14645))
+* improve get_crop_region ([#14709](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14709))
+* Bump safetensors' version to 0.4.2 ([#14782](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14782))
+* add tooltip create_submit_box ([#14803](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14803))
+* extensions tab table row hover highlight ([#14885](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14885))
+* Always add timestamp to displayed image ([#14890](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14890))
+* Added core.filemode=false so doesn't track changes in file permission… ([#14930](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14930))
+* Normalize command-line argument paths ([#14934](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14934), [#15035](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/15035))
+* Use original App Title in progress bar ([#14916](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14916))
+* register_tmp_file also for mtime ([#15012](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/15012))
+
 ## 1.7.0
 
 ### Features:
@@ -41,6 +172,7 @@
 * add FP32 fallback support on sd_vae_approx ([#14046](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14046))
 * support XYZ scripts / split hires path from unet ([#14126](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14126))
 * allow use of mutiple styles csv files ([#14125](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/14125))
+* make extra network card description plaintext by default, with an option (Treat card description as HTML) to re-enable HTML as it was (originally by [#13241](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/13241))
 
 ### Extensions and API:
 * update gradio to 3.41.2