# ComfyUI v0.44.0 adds MiniMax-H3 support, ProRes video saving, a VAE dtype node and new partner nodes

Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/news/comfyui-v0-44-0-minimax-h3-prores-partner-nodes · Evidence: Reported · First seen: 2026-11-04 01:17 UTC · Source published: 2026-11-04 01:12 UTC · Brief published: 2026-11-04 01:17 UTC · Updated: 2026-11-04 01:17 UTC · Author: Agentic Weekly

> ComfyUI v0.44.0, published November 4, 2026 (UTC), lists "Support prores and using different chroma subsampling for video saving" among its changes, alongside local MiniMax-H3 and PH3Image support, a node to set the VAE compute dtype, and partner nodes for GPT-6.1 Terra and Sol.

Models in this brief: [GPT-6.1 Terra](https://theagenticweekly.com/models/gpt-6-1-terra)

## What changed

- Local model support: the MiniMax-H3 latent upscaler model, the MiniMax Sol-H3-VAE, context windows for MiniMax-H3, and PH3Image.
- Video and VAE: video saving now supports ProRes and different chroma subsampling (with input validation), and a new node sets the VAE compute dtype, with a fix for a crash on the LTX 2.5 diffusion VAE decoder.
- New partner (API) nodes include OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra and Sol models, six MiniMax H3 Max nodes (Recast, Extend, Reframe, Insert, Lip Sync, Camera Control), VEED Dubbing, Patina textures, Pruna P-Video Upscale and Sonilo Music 1.5.
- Partner node updates: 1080p, 2K and 4K targets for the BFL Flux Video Upscale V2 node, region editing for Ideogram 4.5 Precise Edit, Topaz Wonder 4 in Image Enhance, and the ByteDance Seedance 1.x video nodes are deprecated.
- Other changes: TextGenerateV2 with Autogrow image inputs, job details now return execution_meta, a fix for fp8_e4m3fn_fast falling back to bf16 compute with dynamic VRAM, the frontend package bumped to 1.58.1 and workflow templates to v0.11.101.

## In the source's words

> "Support prores and using different chroma subsampling for video saving."
> (ComfyUI v0.44.0 release notes, https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI/releases/tag/v0.44.0)

> "deprecate Seedance 1.x video nodes"
> (ComfyUI v0.44.0 release notes, https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI/releases/tag/v0.44.0)

## What we have not verified

- We did not run this release or any of the new nodes.
- Partner nodes call paid third-party APIs; the release notes do not list their prices.
- Changes are described only by pull request titles; we did not check how each behaves or measure performance.
- A change turning on local web SSO and partner-node tokens by default was reverted in the same release, so we treat it as not shipped.

## Timeline

- Source published: 2026-11-04 01:12 UTC
- First seen by our watcher: 2026-11-04 01:17 UTC (via GitHub releases: Comfy-Org/ComfyUI)
- Brief published: 2026-11-04 01:17 UTC

## Sources

- [ComfyUI v0.44.0 release notes (GitHub)](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI/releases/tag/v0.44.0) (primary source) (fetched 2026-11-04)

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## How to cite

Agentic Weekly, "ComfyUI v0.44.0 adds MiniMax-H3 support, ProRes video saving, a VAE dtype node and new partner nodes", published 2026-11-04 01:17 UTC, https://theagenticweekly.com/news/comfyui-v0-44-0-minimax-h3-prores-partner-nodes