diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c6d5695b0..9bb50ef21 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Change Log for SD.Next
 
+## Update for 2025-08-22
+
+- **UI**  
+  - improved image scaling in img2img and control interfaces  
+- **Fixes**
+  - normalize path hanlding when deleting images  
+
 ## Update for 2025-08-20
 
 A quick service release with several important hotfixes, improved localization support and adding new **Qwen** model variants...
diff --git a/extensions-builtin/sdnext-modernui b/extensions-builtin/sdnext-modernui
index da4ccd4aa..6470d3cc3 160000
--- a/extensions-builtin/sdnext-modernui
+++ b/extensions-builtin/sdnext-modernui
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit da4ccd4aa75e3b42937674ba23d406a02783df4f
+Subproject commit 6470d3cc3dd421b46c8cc0372aecd5e6b3ec36a4
diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index 8129cd386..525d58c8f 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ options_templates.update(options_section(('model_options', "Model Options"), {
     "model_h1_sep": OptionInfo("<h2>HiDream</h2>", "", gr.HTML),
     "model_h1_llama_repo": OptionInfo("Default", "LLama repo", gr.Textbox),
     "model_wan_sep": OptionInfo("<h2>WanAI</h2>", "", gr.HTML),
-    "model_wan_stage": OptionInfo("first", "Processing stage", gr.Radio, {"choices": ['high noise', 'low noise', 'combined'] }),
+    "model_wan_stage": OptionInfo("low noise", "Processing stage", gr.Radio, {"choices": ['high noise', 'low noise', 'combined'] }),
     "model_wan_boundary": OptionInfo(0.85, "Stage boundary ratio", gr.Slider, {"minimum": 0, "maximum": 1.0, "step": 0.05 }),
 }))
 
diff --git a/modules/ui_common.py b/modules/ui_common.py
index 292adcdef..046ae93b3 100644
--- a/modules/ui_common.py
+++ b/modules/ui_common.py
@@ -68,15 +68,18 @@ def delete_files(js_data, files, all_files, index):
         start_index = index
     deleted = []
     all_files = [f.split('/file=')[1] if 'file=' in f else f for f in all_files] if isinstance(all_files, list) else []
+    all_files = [os.path.normpath(f) for f in all_files]
     for _image_index, filedata in enumerate(files, start_index):
         try:
-            fn = filedata['name']
+            fn = os.path.normpath(filedata['name'])
             if os.path.exists(fn) and os.path.isfile(fn):
                 deleted.append(fn)
                 os.remove(fn)
                 if fn in all_files:
                     all_files.remove(fn)
-                shared.log.info(f'Delete: image="{fn}"')
+                    shared.log.info(f'Delete: image="{fn}"')
+                else:
+                    shared.log.warning(f'Delete: image="{fn}" ui mismatch')
             base, _ext = os.path.splitext(fn)
             desc = f'{base}.txt'
             if os.path.exists(desc) and os.path.isfile(desc):