INFORUNTIME UPDATE·2026-10-20
ComfyUI 0.39 to 0.42: native Flux3-image, MOSS-image, Windows ARM64 portable
▼ WHAT HAPPENED
ComfyUI shipped five releases between October 5 and October 19, 2026 (UTC).
0.39.0 (Oct 5) adds `--offline` and `--disable-partner-nodes` flags and deprecates `--disable-api-nodes`. The release notes give only the flag names. The linked pull request (#16672) explains them. `--disable-partner-nodes` only hides partner (API) nodes. `--offline` also disables them and sets a Content-Security-Policy header that blocks outbound requests from the web frontend. `--disable-api-nodes` now acts as an alias for `--offline` and logs a deprecation warning. The same release disables pinned memory automatically on integrated GPUs and adds a FLUX 3 Image partner node for BFL.
0.40.0 (Oct 13) adds an ARM64 NVIDIA portable build. It ships as `ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia_arm64.7z`, so it is a Windows package. The release also improves low-VRAM performance of the Qwen 3.5 LLM, removes the `cryptography` package dependency and adds governance enforcement for custom nodes. The governance pull request (#16167) says nothing changes for normal installs; it applies to governed builds that ship a signed policy.
0.41.0 (Oct 15) adds native Flux3-image model support (PR #17064), separate from the 0.39.0 partner node. That pull request says it uses a Qwen3-VL-4B text encoder and the existing Flux2 VAE. 0.41.0 also adds MiniMax-H3 LightVAE support.
0.42.0 (Oct 18) adds MOSS-image support, a second part of Qwen 3.x performance improvements, and loading of embedding models onto Qwen3.5. PR #17170 makes ComfyUI report no fp8, nvfp4, mxfp8 or int8 compute support on the CPU device.
0.42.1 (Oct 19) fixes crashes some users hit when running the MOSS image template workflow.
▼ OPERATOR ANGLE
For local Flux3-image runs, use the native support from 0.41.0. The FLUX 3 Image node from 0.39.0 is a partner (API) node. If your launch scripts pass `--disable-api-nodes` to keep the frontend offline, switch to `--offline`. Use `--disable-partner-nodes` only if you just want to hide partner nodes. On an air-gapped machine, keep your firewall rules; the pull request describes `--offline` only as a header for the web frontend. If you plan to try MOSS-image, go straight to 0.42.1. The ARM64 portable is a Windows package, so on Linux Arm systems keep your usual install. If you run fp8, nvfp4, mxfp8 or int8 models on the CPU, check speed and memory after moving to 0.42.0. We have not benchmarked any of these releases.
▼ ENTITIES REFERENCED
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