diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 1864239..38253f6 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ services:
       - ./data/models:/SwarmUI/Models
       - ./data/embeddings:/SwarmUI/Models/Embeddings
 # comfyui
-      - ./data/config/comfy/custom_nodes:/SwarmUI/dlbackend/ComfyUI/custom_nodes*
+      - ./data/config/comfy/custom_nodes:/SwarmUI/dlbackend/ComfyUI/custom_nodes
 # TODO fix permissions
       - ./data/models/configs:/SwarmUI/dlbackend/ComfyUI/user/default/
 # output
diff --git a/services/comfy/Dockerfile b/services/comfy/Dockerfile
index 783c5d1..af625f1 100644
--- a/services/comfy/Dockerfile
+++ b/services/comfy/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Defines the versions of ComfyUI, ComfyUI Manager, and PyTorch to use
-ARG COMFYUI_VERSION=v0.3.50
+ARG COMFYUI_VERSION=v0.3.52
 ARG COMFYUI_MANAGER_VERSION=3.33.8
 ARG PYTORCH_VERSION=2.7.1-cuda12.8-cudnn9-runtime
 
@@ -50,12 +50,17 @@ RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir \
     sageattention \
     psutil
 
+# Pre-install previously used custom nodes requirements from volume
+COPY ./install/merged-requirements.txt* /docker/requirements.txt
+RUN sh -c '[ -f /docker/requirements.txt ] && pip install --no-cache-dir -r /docker/requirements.txt  \
+    || echo "merged-requirements.txt not found, skipping pre-install."'
+
 # Sets the working directory to the ComfyUI directory
 WORKDIR /opt/comfyui
 COPY . /docker/
 RUN chmod u+x /docker/entrypoint.sh && cp /docker/extra_model_paths.yaml /opt/comfyui
 
-ENV NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:${PWD}" CLI_ARGS=""
+ENV NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all PYTHONPATH="\${PYTHONPATH}:\${PWD}" CLI_ARGS=""
 EXPOSE 7861
 
 # Adds the startup script to the container; the startup script will create all necessary directories in the models and custom nodes volumes that were
diff --git a/services/comfy/install/.gitignore b/services/comfy/install/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c290e5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/comfy/install/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+reqs
+merged-requirements.txt
diff --git a/services/comfy/install/install.sh b/services/comfy/install/install.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c88b9e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/comfy/install/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Get custom nodes requirements and merge latest versions
+REQ_PATH="data/config/comfy/custom_nodes"
+BUILD_PATH="services/comfy/install"
+
+mkdir -p ${BUILD_PATH}/reqs
+for f in ${REQ_PATH}/*/requirements.txt; do \
+  node=$(basename $(dirname "$f")); \
+  cp "$f" ${BUILD_PATH}/reqs/${node}-requirements.txt; \
+done
+find ${BUILD_PATH}/reqs -maxdepth 1 -name "*requirements.txt" -exec cat {} + \
+  | grep -v '^#' \
+  | grep -v '^git' \
+  | sed 's/==.*//' \
+  | awk '{print tolower($0)}' \
+  | sed 's/[[:space:]]//g' \
+  | sort -u \
+  | awk '
+      {
+          line = $0;
+          if (line ~ /^[[:space:]]*$/) { next }
+          if (line ~ /git\+/ || line ~ /\[.*\]/) {
+              print "Z_" line, "0", line
+              next
+          }
+          split(line, a, "[<>=]")
+          package = a[1]
+          version = a[2]
+          gsub(/[[:space:]]+/, "", package)
+          gsub(/_/, "-", package)
+          if (version == "") {
+              version = "0"
+          }
+          print package, version, line
+      }
+  ' \
+  | sort -k1,1 -V -k2,2 \
+  | awk '
+      {
+          if (prev_package != $1) {
+              if (NR > 1) {
+                  print prev_line
+              }
+              prev_package = $1
+          }
+          prev_line = $3
+      }
+      END {
+          print prev_line
+      }
+  ' \
+  > ${BUILD_PATH}/merged-requirements.txt