https://civitai.red/changelog?id=293
As usual, Updates don't support comments so you can leave those here.
Crucibles: Seem to be generally a success and I like the concept for what it is, but we seen to be running into a severe lack of judges. P.S. They also have added leaderboards for them, which you might not have noticed.
Nanobanana 2.1 costs the same as 2 Lite (not cheap), but it has more options. I assume it's good? Oh wait, it won't do "folded ponytail", so it's utterly useless.
MiniMax H3 gets two more API versions, which are more flexible than the first API version and supposedly "better". It's getting quite confusing.
Vidu Q4 is interesting in that in ONLY does i2v. Expensive, but Vidu is quite good so it might be a deal if you care about that.
"models with generation fees can now receive generation tips"
The bugfixes and QoL are generally minor and there's a lot of them, but a few stick out:
Stickers have a Hide controls toggle: This is a really necessary feature.
A bounty supporter could award the bounty to their own entry, and a bounty owner could enter their own bounty: Awww maaaan, the former was probably necessary but the latter was just a fun thing you could do to confuse people. I'll miss it.
Upcoming:
Creator journey: This will mean mostly more badges for most people.
Qwen 2.1: Don't really see how this is worth an announcement of an announcement, but whatever.