This week, we made libvips the default image processing library in Discourse as part of our ongoing work to make processing user uploads more secure. DEV: Enable vips image processing by default (#44870) committed 07:09AM - 26 Oct 26 UTC (UTC) …

Which guide are you referring to? We did update the guides but might have missed one or two.

I was referring to Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development . I don’t think that was updated.

It was updated which links to the installation instructions for libvips .

out of interest, what was the rationale for this change?

ImageMagick replaced with libvips for image processing

NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) October 30, 2026, 5:02am 2

Does the dev install steps need to change?

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