diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3ad139f0e..0167d5509 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 
 - **Model loader** improvements:  
   - detect model components on model load fail  
+  - allow passing absolute path to model loader  
   - Flux, SD35: force unload model  
   - Flux: apply `bnb` quant when loading *unet/transformer*  
   - Flux: all-in-one safetensors  
diff --git a/cli/api-model.js b/cli/api-model.js
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e2ce5344a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/api-model.js
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+const sd_url = process.env.SDAPI_URL || 'http://127.0.0.1:7860';
+const sd_username = process.env.SDAPI_USR;
+const sd_password = process.env.SDAPI_PWD;
+const models = [
+  '/mnt/models/stable-diffusion/sd15/lyriel_v16.safetensors',
+  '/mnt/models/stable-diffusion/flux/flux-finesse_v2-f1h-fp8.safetensors',
+  '/mnt/models/stable-diffusion/sdxl/TempestV0.1-Artistic.safetensors',
+];
+
+async function options(data) {
+  const method = 'POST';
+  const headers = new Headers();
+  const body = JSON.stringify(data);
+  headers.set('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+  if (sd_username && sd_password) headers.set({ Authorization: `Basic ${btoa('sd_username:sd_password')}` });
+  const res = await fetch(`${sd_url}/sdapi/v1/options`, { method, headers, body });
+  return res;
+}
+
+async function main() {
+  for (const model of models) {
+    console.log('model:', model);
+    const res = await options({ sd_model_checkpoint: model });
+    console.log('result:', res);
+  }
+}
+
+main();
diff --git a/cli/full-test.sh b/cli/full-test.sh
index e410528ad..912dc3a5b 100755
--- a/cli/full-test.sh
+++ b/cli/full-test.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
+node cli/api-txt2img.js
+node cli/api-pulid.js
+
 source venv/bin/activate
 echo image-exif
 python cli/api-info.py --input html/logo-bg-0.jpg
diff --git a/launch.py b/launch.py
index f944a7e54..e00da58c7 100755
--- a/launch.py
+++ b/launch.py
@@ -55,9 +55,11 @@ def get_custom_args():
         if 'PS1' in env:
             del env['PS1']
         installer.log.trace(f'Environment: {installer.print_dict(env)}')
-    else:
-        env = [f'{k}={v}' for k, v in os.environ.items() if k.startswith('SD_')]
-        installer.log.debug(f'Env flags: {env}')
+    env = [f'{k}={v}' for k, v in os.environ.items() if k.startswith('SD_')]
+    installer.log.debug(f'Env flags: {env}')
+    ldd = os.environ.get('LD_PRELOAD', None)
+    if ldd is not None:
+        installer.log.debug(f'Linker flags: "{ldd}"')
 
 
 @lru_cache()
diff --git a/modules/sd_checkpoint.py b/modules/sd_checkpoint.py
index 20654e28b..e035fc3db 100644
--- a/modules/sd_checkpoint.py
+++ b/modules/sd_checkpoint.py
@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ def get_closet_checkpoint_match(s: str):
     if found and len(found) == 1:
         return found[0]
 
+    # absolute path
+    if s.endswith('.safetensors') and os.path.isfile(s):
+        checkpoint_info = CheckpointInfo(s)
+        return checkpoint_info
+
     # reference search
     """
     found = sorted([info for info in shared.reference_models.values() if os.path.basename(info['path']).lower().startswith(s.lower())], key=lambda x: len(x['path']))
diff --git a/wiki b/wiki
index ba7d78b55..441d2c4e1 160000
--- a/wiki
+++ b/wiki
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ba7d78b55eb95afe8509bd0069b8ec345b259f21
+Subproject commit 441d2c4e19349f0b219948837922e6373347076e