Release 0.17.0
NOTE
This release note includes all changes since 0.16.2.
Release Date: March 2026
Previous Version: v0.16.2 (February 2026)
Updates: Frontend Modifications, New Backend Options, and Audio Format Switch to MP3
1. Interface Modifications (Frontend)
3D viewer field labels updated — The Img-to-3D node's texture quality dropdown labels now reflect 404-GEN support: "Standard (Tripo: standard, Trellis: 2048, 404: 1024)" and "Detailed (Tripo: high-res, Trellis: 4096, 404: 2048)".

2. Changes to Existing Nodes & New Backends/Models
Text Generation (LLM) Node — Added gemini-3.1-flash-lite and gpt-5.3-chat


Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (#994) — Added gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview as a new backend option across three image generation nodes:
Multimodal Node — New
"Gemini 3.1 Flash Image"backend.

ImageTextEdit Node — Added Gemini 3.1 Flash as a backend for image editing.

QualityTextToImage Node — Added Gemini 3.1 Flash as a text-to-image backend alongside existing Gemini 3 Pro and 2.5 Flash.

404-GEN upgrade — Major upgrade to the 404.xyz 3D mesh backend:

Previously rejected any
face_limit— now validates and passes it through.PBR remains unsupported (hard error).

Trellis 2 also updated: minimum decimation target lowered from 100k to 20k, added PBR hard error (was silently ignored), added texture-off override warning.


Tripo3D v3.1 added

Meshy — additional generation arguments added

Retexture Mesh Node — added support for multiple style images; Tripo backend added; additional Meshy generation arguments added

Migration (v0.9.49) — Existing projects with 404-GEN or Trellis 2 backends and
pbr=Trueare auto-migrated topbr=Falseto prevent execution errors.
Audio format switch to MP3 (#987) — Comprehensive refactor of the internal audio format from WAV to MP3 320 kbps:
All audio nodes now output
.mp3/audio/mpeginstead of.wav/audio/wav.Uploaded audio is now converted to MP3 (320 kbps) instead of WAV.
3. New Nodes
No entirely new node types were added in this period.
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