Midjourney Release Notes

Thanks for testing our V8.0 model over the last month! Today we're releasing our next version of V8 - V8.1

What’s new in V8.1?

• V8.1 has a consistent and familiar aesthetic in the spirit of V7. Moodboards and srefs are now super stable and will be everything you love.
• HD mode is now 3x faster and 3x cheaper. It’s so cheap we’re making it default for V8.1
• Standard resolution is now 50% faster and 25% cheaper. Standard resolution in V8.1 at full quality is as fast as V7 draft mode! It’s great for exploring and iterating fast. We’ve also added a button called “Run as HD” which will rerun any SD job as HD.

We’ve also brought back some community favorite features

• Image prompts and even image weights are now available in V8.1
• New Prompt Shortener, which will kick in anytime you go over the prompt length limits
• Updated Describe that gives longer more detailed prompts and matches the prompting style of V8

Please Note:

Our V8 series of models are still only available on alpha.midjourney.com and are in an early testing phase. Things will change! Perhaps without notice! But good stuff is on the way.

It is likely that we will decommission our V8.0 model after V8.1 has been out for a few weeks. If you find something the old model did better than the new one please let us know in #ideas-and-features

What’s next?

We’re going to try to give a quick shot for some V8 upscalers and then we’re moving onto our V8 edit, inpainting, and outpainting model upgrades.

Have fun everyone! And thank you for being a part of our community ❤️

Hey everyone! We have some quick V8 Alpha related updates to make today

Relax mode is now available!

• V8 Relax is now up for all Standard/Pro/Mega subscribers
• Supports all commands (except using --hd and --q 4 at the same time)
• There is a chance we run out of servers. If we do, we may change availability or speed of relax mode (until we get more servers online hopefully mid-late next week)

Two Versions of SREF / Moodboards now available

• We have a new version of SREF/Moodboards that is less accurate but is 4x faster/cheaper and also supports --hd and works better with --p and --stylize and --exp
• This version is now 'default'
• You can use the old version by putting --sv 6 (style version 6) after your prompt
• Our guides/mods are split between which is 'better' but certainly in my (David's) opinion, this new version is more 'fun' - so please enjoy!

Update on V8 Development

• We REALLY appreciate everyone's feedback so far!
• We are now working on a big training run for a new version of V8 (it might even be called V8.1)
• This new version will (probably) take 1-3 weeks to be ready
• When the next V8 comes out, we will likely remove the 'present' version of V8. So remember everything you're using now is Alpha and temporary.
• The next version we're working on is aiming to have improved default aesthetics, creativity, coherence, image prompts, better moodboards/srefs and possibly 2K default resolution
• Obviously we can't guarantee this but it's a big cool goal and worth our time to give it a shot!

Reminder:

If you want to use MJ V8 go to alpha.midjourney.com and if you want to help us with ratings or feedback, check out Discord

Wish us luck and we hope you continue to have fun playing with the first early version of V8! <3

Release Notes: V8 Alpha

Hi everyone! Today we’re letting the community test an early version of our V8 model on alpha.midjourney.com. We want your feedback and your help. Let’s explore what this new model can do.

V8 is an incredible model. It’s much better at following detailed directions and will still surprise you when you ask. Its ability to understand your aesthetics through personalization, style references (srefs) and moodboards is amazing. Images are more coherent and detailed. Text rendering works better than ever (when specified in “quotes”). And image generation is ~5x faster than before.

We’ve upgraded our web interfaces to support this speed. And more is coming. We have an improved conversation mode so you can just ‘talk’ in flow, a “Grid Mode” so you can focus on a single big set of images, and we’ve moved our settings into ‘sidebars’ so you can tweak settings without blocking your view.

V8 launches with support for multiple aspect ratios, --chaos, --weird, --exp, --raw. We support backwards compatibility with your V7 personalization profiles, moodboards, and srefs.

V8 brings a new --hd mode which natively renders images at 2K resolution and a --q 4 mode if you need a little bit of extra coherence.

Modes and Pricing

Presently, Relax is not yet supported. We are working on a new server cluster for Relax plus cheaper render modes. --hd, --q 4, sref, and Moodboard jobs are 4x as slow as regular jobs and each costs 4x (for now).

The best way to help us improve V8 is to rate images in the lightbox. Click an image in create then click “I like this image” or “I don't like this image” on as many of your V8 images as possible. You can use 1/2/3 hotkeys and arrow keys to rate images quickly.

Other Tips and Tricks

If you’re going for photos or a more ‘plain’ or ‘in control’ look we’d recommend switching to --raw right away or using moodboards or srefs to control your style. We’re still working on the ‘default’ aesthetics of V8, but we strongly encourage you to use your personalization and even crank it to –stylize 1000 asap. V8 is going to shine most right now when you rely heavily on our stylization systems and when you trend towards longer more specific prompting.

Please Note

This is an entirely new model with unique strengths and weaknesses, we want to learn from you what it's good and bad at but keep in mind it may require totally new prompting styles. So play around a bit!

It’s time to play! Show off what you’re making and let us know what you think on Discord. As the model becomes more mature, we’ll do a community-wide roadmap ranking session to help us figure out what to prioritize next.

Thanks again for everyone’s help with the V8 pre-release rating parties, and thank you so much for being a part of Midjourney! Let’s have fun out there and find new wonders on this vast and shared sea of imagination.

Hi everyone, we've got a couple of small announcements today:

1) We've got a new personalization interface on web

• This lets you make personalization profiles by clicking and scrolling through a list of images.
• This should be both faster, more accurate, and more fun
• This lets you also avoid you feeling anxious about 1v1 image comparisons (as before)
• We highly recommend everyone try personalizing Midjourney if you haven't already in the past!
• Go to midjourney.com/personalize to create a new personalization profile or continue building a personalization you started previously

2) We've added Personalization and Moodboards to niji 7 (our anime image model)

3) We're sunsetting rooms on web as we work on our next-generation social features.

• This should noticeably increase the general speed and performance across the entire web experience.
• We recommend people move to Discord for community events and live-chat.

Today we are removing the Rooms feature from the website.

Rooms was an experiment that taught us a lot about what our community needs and where our current infrastructure falls short. It tried to solve too many things at once, and didn't do any of it well enough. Rather than continue patching something that wasn't built to scale, we're making space to build these experiences properly.

We know this leaves some gaps, mainly around live support for our web users and a place for live events or collaboration. We’re actively working on filling those gaps with products focused on each use case. We'll share updates when we have them.

Moving forward, if you need support, you can:

• Visit our help page for immediate assistance
• Join #support on Discord for live help
• Email [email protected]

Thank you to everyone who shared something inside Rooms. We’ll bring them back in a better form.

Hi everyone! We're putting the finishing touches on V8 and need your help!
Please visit midjourney.com/rank-v8 and help us rate images.
This rating party is focused on prompts that ask to generate text. We're going to do rankings on these for 1 day to see if we can tune the typography and text performance of V8 before release.

Directions

• You’ll be shown two images at a time
• Select the one that you think is more beautiful (based on your own personal aesthetic taste)
• On a computer you can use the 1 and 2 keys to select images (1 is left, 2 is right)
• If you're not sure which is better, press "skip" (or the "3" key)
• These images are using random community prompts. If you see something NSFW press "Report Image" (Sorry!)

Please Note

• These images are NOT representative of the new model we will release soon
• These images are meant to be plain/boring/unopinionated and even bad to help our system learn what new things community wants
• If you're worried about quality of the images please don't! Images are always embarrassing when we do early rating parties. Getting everyone's help labeling 'junk' is a very important part of our process
• These ratings are very serious please try your best to provide us with good data.

Thank you so much for your help! We can't wait to share V8 with you soon! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

We have made the following improvements and bug fixes:

• New aspect ratios: added 6:11, 4:5, 5:4, and 21:9 options to the ar slider
• Automatically strip irrelevant parameters (--cw/--ow) when cref/oref not present
• Automatically remove weird parameter from moodboard jobs, because it is not supported
• Improved drag and drop support for images into folders
• Updated the batch operations (download, like, trash, publish, and folder logic) to support 2000 items at a time
• Fixed folders not opening in lightbox view
• Fixed tablet UI layout issues
• Improved layout for mobile and tablets with long prompts
• Improved scroll anchoring and grid performance
• Addressed crashes caused by Google Translate browser extension

Release notes

Along with the Profiles launch today, we’ve updated the names of a few features to better match their functionality:

• The “Hide” filter has changed to “Trash”. Now, when you trash a creation, it won’t be visible on your “Create” or “Organize” pages, and it also won’t show up in the “Archive” tab of your profile. You can find your trashed creations in the “In Trash” filter on your Organize page. Others might still find them on the Explore page, in ranking, or see them if they have the job ID or creation URL. For more information, see our documentation about trash here!
• For Stealth users: What we previously called “Publish” and “Unpublish” is now called “Public” and “Private”.

We’ve also been improving our mobile experience over the last few weeks:

• Redesigned the image tray for image prompts
• Fixed view for create page with many parameters
• Lightbox swipe dismissal action
• Animate manually button bumps you back to prompt bar
• The mobile editor doesn’t glitch
• Organize page filters are scrollable

We’re launching user profiles today

This gives you each an area on Midjourney where you can show off your images to others around the community.

Profile features

• You can customize your profile with a custom username, profile image, banner, short bio, and links to your socials
• You can spotlight your favorite images to curate what other people see
• You can follow other people (your followers are private and visible only to you)
• People can see your profile when they click your name on Explore or use your sharable profile link

For more check out our documentation

docs.midjourney.com

Rewards for setting up profiles

To get the initial population of profiles seeded we’ll be rewarding 5 free fast hours to every person who sets up their complete profile (username, profile image, banner and spotlights at least 8 creations) within the next 24 hours.