Changelog

What's New

The latest updates, features, and fixes for MindCraft Studio.

Future Thoughts

Researching
Future

Visionary

  • More Models: Support for more models.

  • Mobile App: View, control, and manage your studio remotely on your Phone!

  • Collaborative Studio: Work together with your team on the same project in real-time.

  • API Connection: Connect with your own Cloud APIs to extend the functionality of the studio.

Upcoming

In Progress
Coming Soon

New Features

  • Vectorize: Convert images to vector graphics.

2.2.0

Current
2026-04-13

New Features & Experience

  • Modify Selection (Inpaint): Modify selected area of images on canvas.

  • Erase Objects: Erase objects from images on canvas.

  • Expand Image (outpainting): Expand images beyond their original borders.

  • Sections: Group related items on canvas into sections.

  • Relayout: Automatically rearrange items on canvas.

2.1.1

2026-04-08

New Features & Experience

  • Notes: Add notes on canvas to record your inspiration

  • Crop Image: Crop images on canvas

  • Export/Import Canvas: Import and export your canvas with full editing history

Stability & Performance

  • Canvas Perfomance: Improved image rendering performance on canvas

2.1.0

2026-04-02

New Features & Experience

  • Canvas Visual Lineage: Trace the evolution of your ideas and regenerate them with full history restored.

  • Camera Control: Better following of camera instructions

  • Sutdio Assistant: Now you can config System Prompt for Studio Assistant.

  • Lora compatibility: Expand LoRA mapping coverage to support more Z-Image and Flux.2 Loras.

  • Override Lora types: Manually override Lora type in case the system detects it incorrectly.

  • Import remote models: import models from Huggingface or ModelScope directly.

Stability & Performance

  • Studio Assistant performance: Now responds faster than before.

  • Smart Suggestion: Fix a problem that Smart Suggestion may not respond in some edge cases.

2.0.0

2026-03-30

New Features & Experience

  • Infinite Canvas Architecture: A completely redesigned experience centered around a boundless workspace for organizing, comparing, and evolving creative projects.

  • In-place Power Tools: Remix, modify upscale and remove backgrounds directly on the canvas without switching modes.

  • Image Modification: Reference images directly on the canvas to guide AI edits like style transfers, object additions, and face swaps.

  • Advanced Camera Navigator: Professional 3D-native control over perspective, tilt, and rotation for precise shot composition.

  • Variations: Visual exploration tool for navigating aesthetic variations and complexity levels to land on the perfect creative direction.

  • Contextual Suggestions: Intelligently analyzes canvas context to recommend optimal prompts and workflows.

  • Custom Project Storage: You can now choose a custom location to store your studio projects.

1.5.5

2026-03-09

Stability & Performance

  • Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where Remix (img2img) mode was incorrectly triggered as image edit mode when using FLUX.2 Klein models.

1.5.3

2026-02-27

New Features & Experience

  • FLUX.2 Klein Improvements: Support for resizing and cropping input images for Klein edit mode.

  • Import images into Projects: Add images to your projects by simply dragging and dropping them into the app.

Stability & Performance

  • Stability Improvements: Enhanced the generation engine to more robustly handle edge cases and improve overall stability.

1.3.1

2026-01-30

New Features & Experience

  • FLUX.2 Klein: Add support for FLUX.2 Klein 4B & 9B models.

  • Multi-Image Remix: Use up to 7 images as reference prompts to edit and remix (FLUX.2 Klein only), allowing for complex subject blending and consistent character transitions.

  • Prompt Translation: Translate prompt into English from any language.

  • i18n: Added Chinese support.

Stability & Performance

  • Model Switching: Fixed an issue where the model type wasn't correctly updated when switching between different models.

v1.2.0

2026-01-20

New Features & Experience

  • Studio Assistant: your new AI companion for image creation

  • Turn ideas into high-quality image prompts through natural language chat

  • Analyze images, edit visuals, and transfer styles with simple instructions

  • Plan and run batch tasks effortlessly

  • SeedVR2 Upscaler Improvement: Now runs smoothly with less memory consumption

  • Sequential Seeds: Auto-increase seed on each generation to find the best candidate

Stability & Performance

  • Memory Optimization: Smarter memory management keeps everything responsive

  • Faster & Smoother: Faster app startup and readiness checks

  • Bug Fix: Fix for Mac AppStore Version where imported models could appear missing after relaunch

v1.1.0

2026-01-15

New Features & Experience

  • Custom Model Library: Point your model library to an external storage device to store your models.

  • Improved Upscaler Model: New SeedVR2 model for higher quality 2x and 4x upscales.

  • Remove Background: Remove image background with a single click.

  • Compare View: View original and the upscaled/removed background image side by side.

v1.0.5

2026-01-09

New Features & Experience

  • Presets: Create and save your own presets with Model, Size, Seed, Lora, and all other possible settings, and reapply them with a single click!

  • Prompt Library: Add your favorate prompts to the library, and the on-board AI will learn from them and enhace your prompts in the way you want!

Stability & Performance

  • Better memory management: Smarter model loading and unloading to free up memory when not in use.

  • Improved high-res generation: Efficient handling of large images by dividing them into tiles for processing.

  • Model Loading: Fix a bug that models may not be able to reload after a while of idle time.

v1.0.0

2026-01-02

Initial Release

  • MindCraft Studio Launch: Official check-in of the comprehensive MLX-native AI design studio.

  • Unified Pipeline: Support for Z-Image, FLUX.1, and SDXL models (in MLX/MFLUX formats)

  • Creative Layers: Support for LoRA, ControlNet(Canny), and Redux.

  • Quick Upscaling: Instantaneous upscaling of images to 4x.

  • Model Presets: Pre-configured settings for each model so they can be automatically applied when loading.

  • Lora Trigger Words: Pre-configure and automatically add LoRA trigger words to your prompts when using LoRA layers.

  • Onboarding Experience: Mission-based walkthrough for first-time use.