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InvokeAI v6.12.0

This is a feature release of InvokeAI which provides support for multiple accounts on the same InvokeAI backend, enhanced support for the Z-Image and FLUX.2 models, multiple user interface enhancements, and new utilities for managing models.

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Multi-User Mode (Experimental)

Have you ever wished you could share your InvokeAI instance with your friends, family or coworkers, but didn’t want to share your galleries or give everyone the ability to add and delete models? Now you can. InvokeAI 6.12 introduces an experimental multi-user mode that allows you to create separate user accounts with login names and passwords. Each account’s image boards, images, canvas state and UI preferences are separate from the others. Users with administrative privileges are allowed to perform system-wide tasks such as adding and configuring models and managing the session queue, while ordinary users are prevented from making this type of change.

InvokeAI Log-In Screen

See the Multi-User Mode User’s Guide for information on setting up and using this mode.

Multi-User mode was contributed by @lstein .

Enhanced Support for Z-Image and FLUX.2 Models

Z-Image Base — This version of InvokeAI adds support for the Z-Image Base model family. This is an undistilled version of Z-Image suitable for fine-tuning and LoRA training. It also provides a high level of image diversity while preserving excellent image quality.

FLUX.2 LoRAs — InvokeAI now supports a variety of FLUX.2 Klein LoRA formats.

Thanks to @Pfannkuchensack for his work on these enhancements.

Paged Gallery Browsing — Paged gallery browsing is back. Go to image board settings and select “Use Paged Gallery View” to replace infinite gallery scrolling with page-by-page navigation.

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Arrow Key Navigation — The arrow keys now work correctly when browsing a gallery. When the Viewer is in focus, the right and left arrow keys will navigate through the currently selected gallery. When the gallery thumbnails are in focus, the right/left/up/down arrows navigate among them.

@DustyShoe contributed these enhancements.

New Canvas Features

The Canvas now features several new features added by @DustyShoe

Text Tool — The Canvas now features a Text tool that allows you to insert text in a variety of fonts, sizes and styles, move it around the canvas, and commit it to the raster layer.

Linear and radial gradient tools — These new tools add radial and linear gradients to the Canvas. The gradients use color transparency and the foreground/background colors to draw gradients in the direction of the mouse movement.

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Invert Button for Regional Guidance Layers — You can now select any Regional Guidance region and select the “invert” button to exchange painted regions with unpainted ones and vice versa. As an added bonus, the invert button also works with Inpaint Masks.

Layer Controls Moved The controls for creating, duplicating and deleting canvas layers have been moved from the top of the layers list to the bottom, which is more consistent with how other graphics packages position their layer controls and, we think, more intuitive. Long-term Canvas users may need to adjust to the new positioning.

A few improvements contributed by @lstein aim to make it easier to maintain the model and image databases.

Remove Orphaned Models — Over time InvokeAI may accumulate unused “orphan” models in its models directory that take up space but have no entries in the models database for one reason or another. This means they take up disk space without being usable. A new “Sync Models” button in the Model Manager detects and offers to delete such orphaned models. Developers and other users who have access to the source code repository will also find a script, located in scripts/remove_orphaned_models.py , that will do the same thing from the command line.

Remove Dangling Models — The converse problem occurs when a model directory, or one of its files, was removed or renamed externally, causing it to be referenced in the models database but not be usable. There is now a “Missing Files” filter option in the Model Manager that will identify models that are damaged or deleted. You can then select the models you wish to delete and remove them from the database. In addition, the model selection menus will no longer display models that are missing or broken.

Gallery Maintenance Script — For users with access to the source code repository, the scripts/gallery_maintenance.py python script will clean up dangling and orphaned gallery images. Dangling images are those that appear in the Invoke gallery database but whose files have been deleted from disk. Orphaned images are those that have files on disk but are missing from the database. A related database maintenance tool with more bells and whistles can also be found in @Pfannkuchensack ‘s GitHub at https://github.com/Pfannkuchensack/sqlite_invokeai_db_tool.

Workflow Iterator Improvements

@JPPhoto fixed the way that workflow collections work. Previously when you created a Collection and passed it to an iterator, the items in the collection would be passed to downstream nodes in an unpredictable order. Now, the order of items in the collection is preserved, making complex workflows more predictable and reproducible.

Remote Controlling Invoke’s Generation Parameters

It is now possible to programmatically set Invoke’s generation parameters using a new REST endpoint. This allows a script or other external program to select the model, image size, seed, steps, LoRAs, reference images, and all the other parameters that go into a generation. For documentation of the feature see:

@lstein added this feature.

Translations

Thanks to @Harvester62 for providing the Italian translations for this release.

Installing and Updating

The Invoke Launcher is the recommended way to install, update and run Invoke. It takes care of a lot of details for you - like installing the right version of python - and runs Invoke as a desktop application.

Note: With recent updates to torch, users on older GPUs (20xx and 10xx series) will likely run into issues with installing/updating. We are still evaluating how we can support older GPUs, but in the meantime users have found success manually downgrading torch. Head over to discord if you need help.

Follow the Quick Start guide to get started with the launcher.

If you don’t want to use the launcher, or need a headless install, you can follow the manual install guide.

Behind-the-Scenes Improvements

This release are contains a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements.

  • Optimize cache locking in Klein text encoder — (@girlyoulookthebest) This addresses a race condition in the Model Cache which prematurely removed the FLUX.2 Klein encoder from memory.
  • Run Text Encoder on CPU — (@lstein) This is an option available in the details panel of the Model Manager that allows you to force large text encoder models to run on CPU rather than GPU. This preserves VRAM for use by the denoiser steps and in some cases improves performance. Thanks to @girlyoulookthebest who found and fixed a bug in this feature.
  • Fix IP Adapters losing their model path — (@Pfannkuchensack) Fixes the Model Manager’s “reidentify” function when run on IP Adapter models.
  • Kill the server with a single ^C — (@lstein) When previous version of Invoke were launched from a command-line terminal, it used to require two key board interrupts (control-C) to completely shut it down. This is now fixed.
  • Persist the selected board and image across browser sessions — (@lstein) The last image board selected is now restored when you edit a browser session and restart it.

Detailed Change Log

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/compare/v6.11.0…v6.12.0

InvokeAI 6.13.0 Latest

This release of InvokeAI offers support for a variety of new models, including those that are remotely hosted by external providers such as GPT Image. In addition, it provides a host of new and improved features as well as bug fixes.

Installation

See Installation for installation instructions and troubleshooting.

What’s New

New Locally-Hosted Models

We’ve added support for the popular Qwen Image models, both the txt2img and edit versions, as well as Anima.

Qwen Image 2.5

This is a high quality txt2img model that can be run either on your local hardware are on a remotely hosted service (see Hosted Models. We provide starters for the full model (~40 GB!) as well as multiple smaller quantized models. For best results, we recommend 30-40 steps and a CFG of 3-4. We also provide two “turbo” LoRA models, Qwen Image Lightning (4-steps) and Qwen_Image_Lightning (8-steps). These LoRAs provide fast rendering and high accuracy, but loss of diversity. Use a CFG of 1 and a Shift of 3 when applying either of these LoRAs.

Qwen Image Edit 2.5

This is a version of Qwen Image that is optimized for image editing. Add up to three reference images and tell the model on how to combine and alter them using declarative statements such as “Pose the duck on the table”. We provide the full model as a starter, along with multiple quantized versions and two Qwen Image Edit Lightning LoRAs for turbo mode.

See Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency for tips on using Qwen Image Edit effectively.

Anima Preview 3

Anima is an anime-themed model created by a collaboration between CircleStone Labs and Comfy Org. It is able to produce a wide variety of illustration styles. There is also an Anima Turbo LoRA that can be used to speed up rendering using a CFG of 1 and 8-12 steps.

You’ll find Anima and its support models in the Starter Models tab.

New Externally-Hosted Models

This version of InvokeAI offers the ability to generate using externally-hosted models, such as those provided by OpenAI, Google and cloud-based AI generation hosting services. You “install” these models by providing an API key provided by a service that you subscribe to. Typically image generation services will provide a number of generations for free and then start charging on a pay-as-you-go basis. We support externally-hosted models from OpenAI, Gemini (Google), BytePlus, and Alibaba Cloud.

An externally-hosted model works much like a locally-hosted one but with restrictions. In general, you cannot adust steps, scheduler or CFG, and only a limited number of image dimensions are supported. Both txt2img and img2img modes are supported, and the models can be applied to the Canvas and Workflow editor. However inpainting, outpainting, controlnets, LoRAs, regional guidance, and the ability to apply different levels of denoising to img2img are not available. These are limitations imposed by the hosting service and not by InvokeAI.

To get started with externally-hosted models, go to the Models tab and select External Providers. Select the hosting service you wish to use and enter your API key. Click Save and the models supported by this provider will be added to your collection of models.

Models available from OpenAI

  • GPT Image 1
  • GPT Image 1.5
  • GPT Image 1 Mini
  • DALL-E 3

Models available from Gemini (Google)

  • Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
  • Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview

Models available from BytePlus

  • Seedream 3.0 T2I
  • Seedream 4.0
  • Seedream 4.5
  • Seedream 5.0 Lite

Models available from Alibaba Cloud

  • Qwen Image 2.0 Pro
  • Qwen Image 2.0
  • Qwen Image Max
  • Qwen Image Edit Max
  • Wan 2.6 Text-to-Image

Model Manager Improvements

This version improves the Model Manager in several ways. When installing a new model, the installation queue display and progress bars have been completely rewritten to be more functional and attractive. A new bulk reidentify action has been implemented, and it is now possible to sort the model listing in multiple ways.

Image Generation Improvements

Users now have access to LLM-powered prompt expansion and image-to-prompt features. You will find two new buttons in the prompt textfield:

  • Expand Prompt uses a local TextLLM model to expand brief prompts into detailed image generation prompts. This button will replace a simple prompt with a complex one that is well-suited for producing high quality imagery.
  • Image to Prompt Generates descriptive prompts from uploaded images. Use it as a supplement to reference images.

To use these features, you must first install a causal LM model, such as Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct via the Model Manager (enter this repo name into the HuggingFace tab). The LLaVA vision model needed for image to prompt should already be installed.

In addition, this release corrects many small bugs and performance bottlenecks in image generation.

You can now automatically create “virtual” boards that group images according to their characteristics. The only grouping currently available is by date, but more options are on their way.

Canvas Improvements

There have been several new features added to the Canvas. One frequently-requested feature is the ability to hide and show the preview stage thumbnails that can obscure the bottom of the canvas. Another feature is the addition of a Lasso Tool with freehand and polygon modes for creating inpaint masks and selecting raster image regions.

Also among multiple new features is the ability to apply custom workflows directly to a Canvas image. First create a workflow with an image input field in the Form Builder and a Canvas Output node. Right click on the canvas and select Run Workflow. The workflow will run on the input image and create a new layer containing the output of the Canvas Output node.

Workflow Editor and Nodes

There is now a Custom Node Manager tab in the left-hand panel which allows you to install and manage related groups of nodes organized into node packs. Node packs can be installed from local files or URLs.

When adding a node to a workflow, you will find that the nodes are now organized by function with an easy to navigate node picker. Another convenient new feature is the workflow connector, a new type of edge that can be used to connect two or more input/output fields in a highly flexible fashion. To start using this feature, right click on the canvas and select Add Connector.

Internally the workflow execution engine has been overhauled and optimized to improve performance and stability. In addition, there are a number of new user-visible features. There are new generation nodes for running external models, new denoising nodes for the Qwen Image and Anima local models, and a node for decoding invisible watermarks in images. The Collect node now supports chaining to enable deterministic iteration over the items in a collection. A new If mode allows for conditional branching of workflows.

Multiuser Features

When running in Multiuser Mode each logged-in user can create private (only visible to the owner), shared (writable by the owner, readable by everyone else) and public (read/write for everyone) image boards. Similarly, users can now create private and shared workflows.

Documentation

The Documentation Site has been completely redesigned and overhauled.

What’s Changed in Detail

Below is a log of all changes from the previous version. Many thanks to all the authors who contributed to this release.

Models and Model Manager

Image Generation

Image Gallery & Image Storage

Canvas

Workflow Editor and Nodes

Multiuser

Internationalizaton

Thanks to Dmitry Warkentin, Gohsuke Shimada, and Riccardo Giovanetti (@Harvester62) for contributing Russian, Japanese, and Italian translations, respectively.

Documentation

Miscellaneous

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/compare/v6.8.0…v6.13.0

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