DEAS 0.2.17 BETA — ACE-Step, Beginner refinements & utility tabs

Workspace and music

• Utility tabs Monitoring, Run Plan, Backend and Logs are grouped on the right. Studio, Library, Prompt Forge, Chat, TVE and Comfy remain on the left; groups wrap without horizontal page overflow.
• ACE-Step Text to Music now has native recipes for original 1.0 and resolved 1.5 Base/SFT/Turbo/XL, variant-specific defaults, AIO/split components, separate code-LM controls, FLAC output and exact history/Run Plan settings. YuE2 remains available. The observed ace-step-1_5 export header is recognized correctly in UNet scans. Original uses 50 steps / CFG 5 / shift 5; regular 1.5 Base/SFT starts at 50 / 7 / 1; Turbo at 8 / 1 / 3; XL Base at 50 / 6 / 3 and XL SFT at 50 / 7 / 3 (euler/simple). Regular Base/SFT's 50 steps is DEAS's choice within the manufacturer's recommended 32–64, not a unique upstream default.
• Beginner workspace: creative preview with retained pipeline hints, no Local workspace or project controls, shared model-exact sizing, preserved prompts, a resize/collapse separator between preview and prompt, no lower Media dock, rounded Run/Stop ends and a full-width Beginner/Advanced light switch in Quick Settings.
• Optional audio enhancement: Clean processing, Deep speech restoration and Smule Windowed RoFormer vocal/instrumental separation; explicit installs, default OFF, optional post-generation chaining and TVE audio-only export. Originals are retained. Both optional-engine install buttons stay visible.
• Linux preview picture clicks now pause/resume. Scaled Linux file drops hit the intended targets; the Beginner image row and theme editors accept image drops.

This release rolls up the locally staged 0.2.15 and unpublished 0.2.16 work. Detailed behavior and remaining acceptance are documented in docs/.

Verification and limits

Fresh local gates passed: typecheck, 144 core tests, 1523 UI tests, rustfmt, strict Linux release Clippy, 779 Rust library tests (58 ignored) plus three binary tests, and Windows all-target crosscheck/Clippy. Browser checks cover workspace geometry, Beginner controls, paired outputs and ACE authoring. All 13 compiled ACE graph variants validate against real ComfyUI CPU schemas with isolated filename fixtures; the actual local ACE header regression also passes without loading weights.

No claim of real ACE model inference/audio quality or native Windows runtime acceptance. The UNet path uses split components; place an AIO checkpoint in checkpoints to use its embedded encoders/VAE. No models are bundled, downloaded, moved or run by this release operation.

Builds

Unsigned local builds: the repository's Verify and Release workflows are manually disabled, so no hosted CI success is claimed. Linux is a host-linked build requiring glibc >= 2.39 and its GTK/WebKit/GStreamer dependencies (not the Ubuntu 22.04 portable baseline). Windows is cargo-xwin cross-built and requires WebView2. NSIS, AppImage and deb installers are not included.

Source commit: 73000469f6049e7f5ed3b66d6768dcf3677aa285

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