Midjourney alpha fixes folder settings, edit proportions and failed image loads

Midjourney's latest alpha-site update concentrates on the controls around image generation: keeping prompt settings, preserving a base image's proportions during edits and recovering from images that fail to load. The company describes the release as a week of bug fixes and cleanup while it prepares new collaboration tools.

The official alpha changelog is titled October 1 and displays an October 2 publication date. It follows the previous week's additions of sidebar style previews, larger images in Create and default parameters for folders. These are website workflow changes, not an announced new image-generation model.

Style previews retain the prompt's settings

Sending a previewed style now preserves the prompt-bar settings, according to the changelog. Prompt parameters are saved per folder within a tab's session. That last condition matters: a session-scoped setting should not be assumed to persist across every tab or browser restart.

Style references also get a more compact presentation. Multiple srefs appear together in one style pill with thumbnails, and hovering over it lists the codes. Users can pin --exp as a folder default through the advanced settings section. Midjourney says it is generating sample grids for additional srefs each week.

The company has also enabled sidebar style previews with profiles and says images are coming next. The preview helps a user consider a direction before generation, but the update does not promise an exact match between a preview and every resulting image.

Editing keeps the base image's proportions

Edits now retain the aspect ratio of the base image. Midjourney says a stray --ar parameter in the prompt will no longer stretch the edited result. Action rows in the edit view scroll when they do not fit the available window.

Preserving dimensions is one part of keeping an edit usable. Ideogram 4.5's precise-edit workflow addresses another: limiting changes with a mask. The two updates concern different controls. Midjourney's changelog does not establish that it offers Ideogram's mask behavior or guarantees preservation of every unedited pixel.

For someone revising a composition, the Midjourney fix removes an accidental change to the canvas shape. It does not establish that the desired local change, text or object detail will be correct. The resulting image still needs inspection against the brief.

Search and large libraries get practical repairs

Search now starts the Create and Explore feeds at the top, while Back restores the previous page. Filters clear when switching between Organize and Create. Midjourney also says it fixed a crash that occurred when opening an image deep in a history containing more than 100,000 images.

In Organize, a selection rectangle can start anywhere without unintentionally dragging images. Dragging an image onto the prompt bar shows an attachment card with a reference-style option, and moodboard pages accept files dropped from a computer. The release includes smaller layout fixes for tablet rerun buttons, collapsed sidebar menus and the Create feed.

Failed image loads now retry instead of leaving blank tiles. Older browsers receive an unsupported-browser notice rather than crashing, and a private moodboard code displays a privacy explanation. These changes make failures easier to recognize; they do not convert private content into publicly accessible material.

Midjourney lists collaboration, persistent edit history and improved style exploration as work ahead. Persistent edit history is therefore a planned feature in this announcement, not something the present changelog establishes as available. The release's immediate value lies in maintaining the settings and navigation choices people make while iterating on their images.