Introduction

Fresh paint on the node graph, creators — ComfyUI v0.36.0 landed on September 15, 2026 (tag ee71d5c), and it is one of those releases that quietly changes how you author workflows, not just which checkpoint you drop in. The headline for graph nerds is Generic Loops (CORE-14). For everyone else: native YuE2 music, Marigold v2 depth, a real Video Concatenate node, leaner MiniMax-H3 VAE usage, reorganized model blueprints, and a Partner Nodes buffet that keeps growing.

Grab it from the official GitHub release when you are ready to update.

Generic Loops: Workflow Authors, This One Is for You

CORE-14 finally ships a first-class looping model: pair a Start Loop with an End Loop, define the body as the graph between them, and let the executor project each iteration as ordinary scheduled work.

What that unlocks in practice:

  • Simple / For / List iteration modes (repeat N times, stepped indices, or walk a list)
  • Loop-carried state via current_iteration_value → next_iteration_value
  • Optional accumulate so every iteration’s outputs come back as a list
  • Nesting via parent_iteration, plus Get Item From List and heterogeneous Create List for mixed image/text state

Think fade-a-LoRA-in-over-steps, last-frame→first-frame video windows, or a little “telephone game” between a generator and a captioner — without bolting on a custom execution hack. Follow-up PRs in the same release also harden heterogeneous list carry-through and declare loop boundaries in node schema. If you live in the graph editor, this is the feature that will rewrite your muscle memory.

Blueprints Reorganized (and a Lot of New Ones)

The subgraph browser got a tidy-up. The old mega bucket for image/video gen+edit is now split into clearer categories — Image generation, Image editing, Video generation, Video editing — with upscalers moved under Image/Video Tools and preprocessors renamed into Depth / Pose / Face / Segmentation homes.

Alongside the shuffle: fresh and refreshed blueprints spanning Flux, Qwen, LTX-2.3 / 2.5, FireRed, LongCat, MiniMax H3, Wan Animate / Dancer / VACE, Krea-2 Turbo, SeedVR2, crop-image style tools, and more. A later 0.36 commit also drops dedicated Marigold V2 and YuE2 blueprints so you are not hunting from a blank canvas.

Native YuE2 Music + Marigold v2

ComfyUI now supports the YuE2 music model natively — including higher max song duration, more controls on the generate-ABC path, and AMD-oriented fixes. If you just read Anabel’s YuE2 Hum-to-Song scoop, treat 0.36 as Comfy catching YuE2 in core rather than only via one-off adapters.

Depth fans: Marigold v2 lands as first-class support (CORE-431), with matching blueprint coverage so depth estimation workflows stay on-template.

Video Concatenate + MiniMax-H3 VAE Diet

Video Concatenate (CORE-436) is the practical glue node many video graphs were improvising around — stitch clips without exporting mid-pipeline. Separately, MiniMax-H3 gets VAE optimizations and a further trim on VAE memory pressure, which is cheerful news if you are already squeezing H3 onto modest VRAM.

Partner Nodes Roundup

The Partner Nodes pack in 0.36 is busy (in a good way):

  • OpenRouter / Microsoft — mai-image-2.6, plus auto aspect ratio on the MAI image node
  • Gemini — Gemini 3.8 Flash on the text node; GeminiNodeV3 arrives and V2 is deprecated
  • BFL — Flux Video Edit
  • Bria — new image-edit nodes + Video Eraser
  • Tripo — migrate to v3 API, Smart Segment, plus P2 text / image / multiview→model nodes
  • Pruna — P-Video-2 text-to-video and image-to-video
  • Client-side: consume estimated-duration headers so progress UI can show more honest wait times

AMD, Frontend, Templates

AMD Windows users get a VA quota bump to 4TB (CORE-409), plus refreshed manual-install notes. Frontend bumps to comfyui-frontend-package 1.52.7, and workflow templates roll through v0.11.59 → v0.11.62 across the release window — so the starter gallery stays in sync with the new blueprints.

How to Update

  1. Pull or download v0.36.0 from Comfy-Org/ComfyUI releases (portable builds for NVIDIA / AMD / Intel are attached there).
  2. Update custom nodes / Manager as you normally would after a minor bump.
  3. Open the blueprint browser and poke the new category split — then try a tiny Start Loop / End Loop graph before you rewrite your production pipelines.
  4. If you make music: load the YuE2 blueprint and verify duration controls on your GPU/OS combo (especially AMD).

Pro Tip

Start with one loop that only varies a sampler setting or resolution from iteration_index, enable accumulate, and terminate a Preview/Save through End Loop’s termination inputs. Once that clicks, nesting and list-mode stop feeling scary.

Conclusion

v0.36.0 is not a “one flashy checkpoint” drop — it is infrastructure with sparkle: Generic Loops for authors who think in graphs, native YuE2 and Marigold v2, honest video stitching, leaner H3 VAE behavior, cleaner blueprints, and Partner Nodes that keep the hosted-model edge sharp. Update when your weekend allows, then build something that iterates on purpose.

—Aurelia ♡