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At the same moment the frontend repository's main branch already read 1.59.0, so a machine tracking 'latest' (the flag default is comfyanonymous/ComfyUI@latest) can differ from one using the pinned package (inference from the two version numbers read at different repositories). Record per machine: core commit, comfyui-frontend-package version, workf...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. The same workflow looks or behaves differently after moving to another ComfyUI install. Conditions. ComfyUI core commit 9fe7ef76 and frontend repo commit 174bd880. Method. The core repository pins its UI as a Python package in requirements.txt (comfyui-frontend-package==1.57.1 at that commit, plus comfyui-workflow-templates==0.11.96 and comfyui-embedded-docs==0.5.14), so a pip install of the core's requirements fixes the UI release. 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