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) …

Does the dev install steps need to change?

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

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, 6:19am 4

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

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