v2.6.0 Preview 1 (Patreon)

Hi all, we've been working on getting ControlNet and custom step support added to Inference for v2.6.0, but due to preprocessor support not being built-in we're needing to work on common elements like plugin management before being able to support ControlNet fully as a simple and intuitive feature.

We're tidying up v2.6.0 for stable release soon, with ControlNet and other Inference features planned for v2.7.0. Many fixes in this preview from the dev versions, and including a new Python Packages manager that should make it easier to edit and fix any dependencies.

Added

- Added Python Package manager - an easier way to manage pip packages in the package venv, accessible from package menu
- Added Release versioning support for InvokeAI Packages
- Consolidate button on Outputs page

Changed
- Unified gallery and output page image searching, most metadata fields like prompt should be available for search now, in addition to file names

Fixed
- Fixed some install errors relating to new versions of xformers overriding the selected PyTorch distribution with the default CPU distribution
- Fixed Inference gallery / outputs page not recognizing some images with A1111 metadata

Update: Release files changed to build commit d411124 to fix an image parsing crash with A1111 metadata