Midjourney Release Notes

hi everyone! We're testing a new "Thinking Mode" for image generation on our Alpha website (alpha.midjourney.com) and we'd love your feedback.

To run it go under the lightbox for a job and click "Rerun (Thinking)" in the lower right corner

We're finding in tests that this helps make the model better at prompt accuracy, typography, and coherence.

We'd love your help testing it on your images and telling us where it does/doesnt help and what other sort of issues you might find.

In the future we might make this available broadly as a 'thinking' mode or as a way to 'add more thinking' after the job.

We're trying to both improve performance and just generally investigate this direction and would love your thoughts.

Please drop us examples and opinions in #ideas-and-features

Thank you so much! ❤️

Hi everyone, here's this week's round of changes on alpha.midjourney.com. The highlight this week is shared folders, a new way to collaborate on Midjourney. Many of these improvements came straight from #alpha-ideas-and-bugs and office hours, so keep your thoughts coming!

THINKING MODE

You can now rerun jobs made with 8.2 (standard and edit) with "thinking.” Midjourney looks at your image, finds where it missed your prompt (wrong objects, layout, anatomy, text) and generates again. This is an early version so we'd love to hear your feedback.

SHARED FOLDERS

We’ve launched better ways for you to create together - folders can now be shared! Invite people by username as Collaborators or Viewers. Collaborators can generate right into the folder and build on each other's work. Viewers can browse the images within the folder. You can also share a folder by link. Keep it private to the people you add, let anyone with the link view it, or open it up so any Midjourney member can contribute. The owner can delete a shared folder for everyone. The images stay in each creator's own history.

One heads-up: sharing doesn't change image privacy. Non-stealth images can still appear on Explore and on profiles, even if you made them inside a private folder. This is also an early version, and we'd love to hear your feedback.

WHAT YOU SAID

No more edits stuck on 'Submitting...': stalled submits now fail cleanly within 2 minutes, and jobs that secretly succeeded show up in your feed. The inline editor no longer crashes to the error screen after an edit. Keyboard shortcuts no longer fire underneath an open dialog or zoomed image. Older Firefox versions work again. And catching up on a very long history no longer stalls partway. Clicking the '+N more' pill on an image applies those settings as intended. And Live Style Previews now work on custom styles.

ORGANIZATION IMPROVEMENTS

You can pin a folder to the top of your sidebar. Search and Filters on Organize have been moved into the feed's top row where you'd expect them. Deleting a personalization profile gives you an Undo instead of an are-you-sure dialog. The pills you set in a folder stay with it, even across sessions. You can rename a folder in-place easily.

MOODBOARDS

Large uploads now happen a few images at a time with a clear progress bar, so adding multiple references no longer stalls.

PROMPT BAR & VIDEO

Using --tile with an attached image now tells you they're incompatible. Extend and Loop on video inform you the length cap if you hit it.

POLISH & BUGS

Draft mode on V8.1 and V8.2 always makes a 24-image grid, and now the tooltips, hover text, and Try buttons make that clear. The help, billing support, and submit-a-ticket links now take you where they're supposed to. Rare job types show up normally instead of crashing the page. Grid spacing got a cleanup pass. If something's wrong with your account, you now find out plainly. Temporary suspensions come with an Appeal button, and restricted accounts see dimmed controls with an explanation instead of a moderator error.

UP NEXT

Edit history that sticks around when you leave and come back. More ways to explore, find, and create styles.

Please keep sharing your feedback with us so we can continue to improve! And, as always, thank you for being part of our community ❤️

Love,
Midjourney

ICYMI – last week, we launched a few features on alpha.midjourney.com that we're really excited about: style previews in the sidebar so you can see what you’ll get before you generate, larger images in create, and setting default parameters in a folder. Mostly focused on bugs and cleanup this week, as we get ready to launch some new collaborative tools next week. As always, the goal is making the site easier to use without taking control away. A lot this week came from #alpha-ideas-and-bugs and office hours, so keep your thoughts coming!

WHAT YOU SAID

Now, sending a previewed style keeps your prompt-bar settings. Prompt parameters are saved per folder, within a tab's session. If you have 100K+ images, opening one deep in your history used to crash the site. Not anymore! We made scrolling/using arrow keys to scroll through images on the lightbox a lot clearer and easier. Filters clear when you switch between Organize and Create. Mac right click on create feed images works the old way. You can do sidebar style previews with profiles too – images coming next.

PROMPT BAR & PILLS

Mixing style references? All the srefs in your prompt now show as a single style pill with thumbnails, and hovering the pill will list the codes. You can also pin --exp as a default for a folder: click the advanced section of settings. By the way, we’re generating sample grids for more srefs every week.

SEARCH

Searching now starts the Create and Explore feeds from the top, and Back restores the page you were on.

EDITING

Edits now keep the base image's aspect ratio, so a stray --ar in your prompt won't stretch the result. Action rows in the edit view scroll when they don't fit your window.

CREATE FEED

List view keeps the prompt where it belongs, cards no longer get peek out from within the header, and the "To top" control is a small pill that stays out of your way. On tablets the rerun button keeps its shape. Collapsed sidebar rows now have their "..." menu.

ORGANIZE & DRAG AND DROP

The selection rectangle in Organize mode now starts from anywhere, so selecting no longer accidentally drags images. Dragging an image shows an attach card on the prompt bar with a "Reference style" option below it. Moodboard pages accept files dropped straight from your computer.

POLISH & BUGS

If you encounter a dead button on the Plans page you’ll now see a clear explanation. Someone else's private moodboard code now says it's private instead of erroring. Older browsers get a friendly unsupported-browser notice instead of a crash. Images that fail to load now retry instead of leaving a blank tile.

UP NEXT

Better ways to share and generate together, collaboratively. Persistent edit history. Better ways to explore, find, and create styles as we move towards what David calls “the aesthetic singularity.” 🕴️

Please keep the feedback coming in #alpha-ideas-and-bugs ! And, as always, thank you for being part of our community ❤️

Love,
Midjourney

Hi everyone! A few updates to share with you today

We're experimenting with fast models in the interface on alpha.midjourney.com. The Styles sidebar can now preview what your latest prompt looks like across styles. Turn on "Live previews" and see a preview of your prompt using liked and featured styles. Click on the thumbnail to generate with that style.

We've also improved inpainting and outpainting with the edit model. Making targeted edits to the image will change only the pixels that you've selected. This gives you more control, and allows you to make repeated edits without degrading the quality of the image.

Here's a bit more info about how you can use the edit model.

We've also made tile --tile work better for V8.1/8.2. Previously, you might have seen seams between your tiled images. Now, they blend invisibly from one tile to the next.

We hope you have fun!

Hi everyone, here are the latest round of changes on alpha.midjourney.com. Many of these came directly from your feedback in #alpha-ideas-and-bugs. Please keep it coming!

STYLE PREVIEWS

We're experimenting with fast models in the interface. The Styles sidebar can now preview your current prompt across styles as you browse: flip on "Live previews" under the Styles tabs and scroll. Previews use your prompt text on its own, and clicking a style sends your prompt with that style.

DEFAULT PARAMETERS

This one has been on the "up next" list twice, and it's finally here! Go to Settings → Advanced → Your defaults, or just click "Set current pills as default" to save what's in your prompt bar. Tell us how it feels.

CREATE FEED

A big visual refresh. The feed is now full-width masonry, and prompts and buttons appear on hover instead of taking up space under every image. Videos play on hover again. There's a view menu on project feeds (select Grid or List), an in-place Organize mode, and Archive now opens your full library across all projects. If you generate images while on another page, a floating "Images ready" pill appears next to Create.

SEARCH & ARCHIVE

Opening an image from Create or Archive and going back now keeps your search, results, and scroll position instead of dumping you at the top.

STYLES

The Styles sidebar has new Profiles and Featured tabs, and styles get their own detail pages. Profile tiles now work like moodboard tiles: hover to preview in your prompt bar, click to add to your prompt.

EDITING

Arrow keys move smoothly through your edit history. Failed reference uploads now tell you why they failed. The "Edit" label only shows on jobs that actually came from the editor. Helper tooltips in the lightbox. The editor now supports v8.1 and v8.2 edit types, and edit canvases can run in HD.

ORGANIZE

New projects title themselves. You can delete a project by itself or with its images with an undo option in case you regret it. "Show all" now opens every top-level project.

PROMPT BAR & PILLS

The weird slider is fixed: 50% now means 228, not 1500. Triple-click selects your whole prompt, pills included. Pasted prompts keep their image prompts instead of turning into edit references. Copy and Remove are back in profile and moodboard pill menus.

POLISH & BUGS

Billing tabs no longer open blank when the portal is slow, and invoices open in the same tab if your browser blocks pop-ups. Sidebar panels no longer shove the page around. Lots of hover and scrolling performance improvements on the new feed.

KOREAN

Last week Korean came to alpha. Now, it’s live for everyone on midjourney.com. Speak/read Korean? Tell us what you think. Interested in helping bring Midjourney to more languages? Sign up here.

UP NEXT

Better ways to collaborate. More mobile improvements.

Thank you for being part of our community ❤️

Love,
Midjourney

Hi everyone, lots more changes on alpha.midjourney.com! Same goal as before: make the site easier and more intuitive without taking away any of the control you have today. Some things will still be broken, but we're shipping often, so tell us if you find bugs.

KOREAN!

Speak/read Korean? This is the update for you. Interested in helping bring Midjourney to more languages? Sign up here.

EDITING

Lots of fixes on the v8.2 editor. The prompt bar now asks "What would you like to change?" when you attach an image. Draft batches show their source images in a grid with a hover preview, and offer Enhance, replacing a previously useless Upscale button.. The “Add to Folder" option now works from the editor even if you have no folders yet.

MOBILE/TABLET

A starter pass here. Pages use the full width, nothing hides behind the bottom bar, and rotating your phone or Safari's toolbar no longer leaves a blank strip. Menus and sheets stay on screen. Uploads get a 3-dot menu so you can finally delete them. Search opens the keyboard right away. More to come, but we still recommend using prod instead of Alpha on mobile.

PROMPT BAR & PILLS

Typing a single backtick no longer freezes the tab. Typing --no a, b now reads the whole list. Long text wraps instead of clipping. What you type in a pill stays even when a preview pops up. The search drawer shows your Frequent and Recent srefs, click one to filter. The "what persists between prompts and sessions" question is still open. Default parameters are the next step.

ORGANIZE

Dragging images to a folder works with the sidebar collapsed. Folder links survive a rename. Adding to a moodboard by link works for external sites. Organize is top-level, and hovering a collapsed icon opens a flyout. Change Style now matches the Styles panel.

POLISH & BUGS

Animate now works (sorry for breaking it). Things should feel snappier. Grids and profiles fill the width. Escape closes just the menu, not the whole image. PageUp/Down and Home/End scroll the feed while the search drawer is open.

UP NEXT

Setting default parameters. Previewing an sref with your prompt. Archive keeps your search when you open an image and go back. Scratchpad reachable from Archive. Drag-and-drop targets that make more sense.

Please keep the feedback coming in #alpha-ideas-and-bugs!

Thank you for being part of our community :heart:

Love,
Midjourney

Thank you for all of your dedicated testing, feedback, and bug reports over the last two weeks! We pushed a huge update to alpha.midjourney.com, stacked on a lot of other changes in the past couple of weeks. Reminder: what we’re trying to do on alpha is to make the magic of Midjourney accessible to more people, by making it feel easier and more intuitive to control the model, without sacrificing any of the control people have now. Some things are going to be broken, but we’re shipping frequently enough that most things shouldn’t remain broken for long (especially if you tell us about it).

EDIT-LIGHTBOX

The biggest change is that the new v8.2 edit model is on alpha, with a new editor built directly into the lightbox. Open any image in the lightbox, edit with plain instructions, attach up to 4 reference images, and see all your session edits in one place. If the last time you looked was when we launched last week, we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs and glitches.

STYLE EXPLORATION

We’re experimenting with a new Change Style feature on the lightbox, which is part of a broader push towards easier ways of exploring style space. I think this is gonna be a hit once we nail it, this is just an early version of it.

DRAG AND DROP

We’re still working through drag and drop UX. We’re starting to feel better about the current version, but we want it to feel a bit more… jazzy.

PROMPT BAR & PILLS

Lots of bugs and papercuts have gotten fixed. I know this is a major point of contention, but we’re going to get it there. We’re still thinking about the correct behavior for what is kept vs removed between prompts and sessions, and how people can set defaults.

POLISH & BUGS

Things should feel a lot faster. A lot of little fixes: overlaps, data issues, weird combination glitches (Niji 7 + inpainting now works correctly, Pinterest extension button no longer shows up on the sidebar – we can’t test all of these, so your feedback is very helpful for finding them). Also better messaging around errors and some errors get fixed by themselves. 🙂

UP NEXT

Setting default parameters. Previewing an sref with your prompt. Giving more real estate to images. Make the closability of the settings more obvious.

Please keep the feedback coming in #alpha-ideas-and-bugs!

Thank you for being part of our community ❤️

Love,

Midjourney

Hey everyone! Today we’re gonna start letting everyone test our first V8.2 image edit model!

This model supports:

1. Editing images with instructions
2. Generating images with other images (replacing omni-reference) with up to 4 image references at once
3. Changing specific areas of your images (inpainting) or expand your canvas (outpainting)
4. Using personalization, moodboards and srefs (moodboards/srefs may work best with some extra prompt direction in this version)

Ways to use the model:

• Drag images into the prompt bar under "attach to prompt”
• Click ‘edit’ in the lower right in the lightbox
• Click the ‘edit’ tab on the left and upload an image
• Type --edit url... on Discord

We’ve updated UIs on both the main midjourney.com website and alpha.midjourney.com, alpha will be changing rapidly with lots of experiments on how to remake the interfaces for this model.

There’s gonna be a lot of edge cases here so we’ll need your help finding situations that don’t work as expected. If an image doesn’t work well try clicking the sad face emoji on the right side of the lightbox or give us the jobid/url for the image while it's opened in the lightbox.

We’d also love your thoughts on how we can improve our user interfaces for this model from here. Drop your thoughts or model edge-cases in #ideas-and-features.

If you want to share what you’re doing with the new model, feel free to chat or share in #edit-showcase.

There will be a lot of fast-follow updates from here, but we’re ready to start testing as a larger community and hope you have fun!

❤️

Two weeks ago, we launched a very rough draft of some big changes to alpha.midjourney.com. Since then, thousands of you have been testing and hundreds have given us thoughtful feedback, both positive and negative (Thank you! Yes, even the brutal stuff.). That's the deal with alpha: you see it early, we get to pressure test it together. We've spent the past two weeks shipping UX improvements and bug fixes, and we'll keep updating the changelog as the site gets better or you can visit #alpha-news for the latest updates.

Folders and organizing

• You can now organize your projects into groups in the sidebar: a collapsible tree where you can rename a group with a double-click and file new folders straight into it
• The sidebar got a big cleanup: one folders tree with your recent folders up top and a “Show all” toggle, a New Project button, Styles grouped into a dropdown, and the nav stays open on large screens
• Fixed folder grouping and Scratchpad behavior, and folder controls stay hidden until you have folders
• Saved Searches are back in the search drawer on Organize
• Fixed a crash when creating a project or workspace

Upscale, Zoom, and Vary

• Upscale, Zoom, and Vary are back, and Vary now respects your settings instead of quietly running in HD
• Older V8.2 images got their Upscale buttons back too
• Fixed HD selection on V8.2, and removing the HD bubble no longer silently changes your speed

Settings

• Settings now stick: values no longer reset on their own, and Relax no longer flips back to Fast
• Personalization no longer applies while the toggle says off

Performance

• Fixed the lag across the site: prompt input typing, settings sliders, and the slowdown after scrolling deep into your gallery

Editor

• Editor menus no longer cover the Submit button
• Retexture prompts are no longer wrongly rejected
• The inline editor no longer shows the wrong sidebar

Prompt bar and pills

• Removing the version pill now switches the model
• "Use Subject" no longer errors out
• Submitting a prompt now keeps your pills and image references in the bar for the next run, only the text clears
• Fixed prompt paste corruption, double submits, and custom option lists and permutations
• Fixed sref pill parsing, including repeated random srefs collapsing into one
• Right-click on prompt pills now gives a real context menu, and pills have hover cards explaining each flag
• Pills got a visual refresh to match the feed, cmd/ctrl-click navigation on them works again, and a bare personalization pill now reads "Personalization On"
• Stylize settings now explain themselves in context, and House style works without Raw
• Shift+Enter makes a newline again, and the down arrow returns to your written prompt
• Dragging an image now opens the Images sidebar with drop targets for each reference role, floating over the page instead of pushing it
• Video mode: dropping images on the Start and End Frame pills now works correctly

Gallery and lightbox

• Redesigned the gallery filters as toggle chips
• Sidebar tabs stay visible in the lightbox, and sidebar scrolling no longer flips to the next image
• The right sidebar is slimmer based on screen size, with consistent steppers across settings
• Downloads save with proper filenames and extensions again
• When an image is blocked by the output filter, the error message accurately reflects what happened

Explore

• Rating on Explore now works past the first grid
• Fixed a crash on Explore
• Top Week and Top Month now show V8.2 images
• Search shows V8.2 images

Moodboards and profiles

• You can copy a moodboard pill to copy its code
• "Use Moodboard in Prompt" is one-shot again instead of setting your default
• Fixed the moodboard card buttons: copy and select do what they say, and removed the confusing "Set as Default"
• Profile copy button copies the code again

Fair warning: fixing this many things this fast means we almost certainly introduced some new bugs along the way. When you find them, tell us. Please keep the alpha feedback coming in #alpha-ideas-and-bugs. And thank you for being a part of our community ❤️

Hi everyone!

We are launching our V8.2 image model today. This update focuses on aesthetics and image quality and personalization.

• Images should be more creative, bold, sophisticated, edgy and fresh
• Random situations where you'd get a low quality image should be dramatically reduced
• Personalization will "understand" your personal taste much better. Especially if you have a ton of ratings under your profiles
• Creating personalization profiles for V8.2 now has a much larger and improved pool of images to choose from

Thanks for your help rating images to make this possible!

We hope you all have fun and we strongly encourage you to try both new and old personalization profiles with the latest release.

Hi everyone - a few updates today!

Draft mode for V8.1

• Each draft mode generation creates 24 images at a lower resolution and quality.
• Click "Vary" on images you'd like to render at full-quality and full-resolution
• Draft jobs use half as many fast hours as V8.1 SD jobs (even though they generate 24 images!)
• Turn on draft mode by clicking the ⚡ button in the menubar

Use --preview to test new features

• We're trying something new today to let you test early versions of new models. Use --preview in your prompt to test the latest. Images that you create with --preview might be a little unpolished and the jobs are not guaranteed to run consistently over time.
• In this first test, you'll notice differences across all images, especially those with personalization and moodboards.

We'd love to hear what you think in #ideas-and-features

Hi everyone,

After your testing and feedback, we've updated the default model from V7 to V8.1!

A reminder of what's new in V8.1:

• The model is smarter, more coherent, better adheres to detailed prompts, and renders text better than ever
• With HD mode enabled, V8.1 renders at twice the size and 4x the resolution of V7 images
• V8.1 is incredibly fast. Your images appear in only 4 seconds in SD, and 12 seconds in HD
• Style references, personalization, and aesthetics remain consistent between V7 and V8.1

Note:

• V7 omni-reference is available to use while we finish training the improved version for V8
• Now that V8.1 is the default, we will be deprecating our V8.0 alpha model in two weeks

Conversational mode has been improved across text and voice input

• When a voice session starts, it has access to your Image Prompts, Style References, sidebar settings, and recent jobs.
• Image Prompts now work from the tray and sidebar.
• Tray images persist across voice submissions until you remove them.
• You can add references without exiting voice.

A new Rerun as HD button makes it easy to rerun any V8.1 image generated in Standard Definition (SD) as High Definition (HD).

Folder views on the Create and Organize pages now show a hidden-item count so you can see how much is filtered out. The filter reset button has moved from the bottom to the top of the filter bar.

On mobile web, the settings menu now groups Profiles, Moodboards, and Liked Styles together. The More Options panel is available in the mobile lightbox.

Improvements and bug fixes

• Search on the Create and Organize pages now works for signed-in members without an active subscription.
• Upload error message now shows the correct 20 MB limit.
• Failed jobs no longer show Vary or Upscale buttons that can't run.
• Rate-limit message now appears when an upload is throttled.
• Prompt scrolling on the Create page no longer traps the scroll wheel.
• Subscribe button no longer gets stuck after navigating back.
• Activating a Niji 6 or V6 Personalization profile no longer immediately deselects it.
• Copy confirmation now waits for the clipboard write to finish.
• Corrections for inaccuracies in the Account Settings subscription status panel.