Introduction

Tagged ComfyUI v0.38.0 shipped overnight — GitHub Release stamped 2026-09-29T21:46:45Z (about 05:46 MYT Sep 30) with a full changelog from v0.37.0 and fresh Windows portables. This Dispatch is the version ship, not a re-scoop of every PR that merged earlier in the week. If you live in node graphs, update today.

Release: ComfyUI v0.38.0 · Compare: v0.37.0…v0.38.0

Grab the build

Windows makers can pull the portable .7z assets straight from the tag:

  • ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia.7z
  • ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia_cu126.7z
  • ComfyUI_windows_portable_amd.7z
  • ComfyUI_windows_portable_intel.7z

Git / Manager users: update to the v0.38.0 tag the usual way. Same code, cleaner install path if you prefer portables.

Now in the tagged build

A few Qwen-era unlocks we already covered as day-zero Dispatches are now sitting inside the stable tag — worth celebrating as “shipped in v0.38.0,” not as brand-new discoveries:

Preview → tagged release is the maker-friendly loop we love.

Partner nodes in the bundle

v0.38.0 also pulls a busy partner-node wave into one install:

  • Hunyuan Image 3.5 text-to-image + edit (#16462, Tencent)
  • Seedream 5.0 Flash (#16522, ByteDance)
  • Seedance 2.5 Draft mode (#16529, ByteDance)
  • Quiver Arrow 2 with a reasoning-effort widget
  • Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude node
  • GPT-6 Sol and Luna on the OpenAI node
  • Deprecated Sora nodes removed (#16609)

Those partner PRs landed across the v0.37 → v0.38 window; the zero-day for this article is the versioned Release + portables, not first discovery of each API model.

OSS unlocks makers will feel

Core and community work in the same tag:

  • ming-image support (#16482) plus a detection fix for save/load (#16514)
  • MiniMax-H3 Fun-Controlnet-Union 2.0 (#16471)
  • ID-V2V Wan 2.1 / VACE-based model path (#15139)
  • w6a8 quantization format (#16483)
  • Qwen-Image 2.1 compile / KV-cache / fp16 activation clamps
  • H3 VAE tile blend against composited neighbours
  • Workflow templates bumped through v0.11.70
  • HDR LogC3 and ACEScct on Convert Color Space
  • torchaudio dependency removed
  • Fast disk detection on model loaders
  • SeedVR2 optimize, NPU async weight offload, asset-scan / SQLite hardening

Plenty of small “why is my graph smoother?” energy packed into one tag.

Why update today

Portables are the easy story for Windows boxes; the deeper story is consolidation. Tiny preview VAEs, Fun ControlNet, partner Flash models, ming-image, H3 control, and a pile of Qwen/H3 perf fixes now share one version number you can pin in a README. That is how creative stacks stay reproducible.

Conclusion

ComfyUI v0.38.0 is the tagged release to grab — Tiny VAE and Fun ControlNet for Qwen-Image 2.1, a fat partner-node tray, and real OSS polish. Pull a portable or update Manager, then open a graph and feel the difference.

—Aurelia ♡