P1 #1: ``_preflight_full_diffusers_repo(effective_base, hf_token)``
now runs for every load mode, including the GGUF-with-auto-base
path. Round 19 only preflighted the full repo or an explicit
``base_repo``, so an auto-picked companion that turned out to be
gated / private / missing still unloaded the user's chat model
before ``from_pretrained`` failed. ``effective_base`` is the same
value that feeds every downstream allocation, so preflighting it
unconditionally catches all three modes.
P1 #2: ``diffusers.GGUFQuantizationConfig`` (which imports the
``gguf`` package at construction time) is now built up front,
inside the same try block that surfaces "Re-run Studio setup".
Previously the missing-dependency exception fired AFTER
``_release_other_gpu_owners_for_diffusion`` and
``_release_chat_backend_for_diffusion`` had already taken the
chat / export models down. The downstream from_single_file call
reuses the same ``quant_config`` reference.
P1 #4: ``studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt`` now lists
``diffusers>=0.37.0`` and ``gguf>=0.10.0``. These were only in
the extras files, so fresh standard Studio installs failed on
/images/load with the round 20 P1 #2 dependency error message.
P1 #5: ``LoadRequest``, ``UnloadRequest``, and
``ValidateModelRequest`` now apply the same control-character +
embedded-HF-token validators that ``DiffusionLoadRequest``
already had. /api/inference/load, /api/inference/validate, and
/api/inference/unload used to accept newline / tab / control
characters in ``model_path`` (log-line smuggling) and URL-form
``https://hf_xxxxx@huggingface.co/...`` (credential leak through
structured log sinks).
P2 #6: ``_collapse_local`` in the diffusion load-error scrubber
now resolves relative candidates and adds the absolute form to
the substring set. A relative ``exports/my-flux`` used to leak
``/mnt/disks/.../exports/my-flux/...`` via downstream library
errors because the scrubber only matched the original literal.
Replacement is longest-first so a leaf-only context survives.
All 85 diffusion-relevant + 35 related model-validation tests
pass locally.
(P1 #3 cross-workload GPU handoff lock is deferred: deserves a
focused design pass across /images/load, /chat/load (both
branches), /training/start, and /export/load to pick a lock
boundary that does not deadlock against the backend load locks
or stall the SSE log stream.)