Description:
When users try to upload or update a profile picture (whether .gif, .png, or .jpg), the upload fails with a 422 (Unprocessable Content) error on the frontend.
This is currently happening on the latest Discourse version (v2026.8.0-latest.1) and seems to be caused by the discourse-animated-avatars plugin crashing the image optimization pipeline.
Error Logs:
Looking at the Sidekiq/Rails logs, the plugin fails in UploadCreator because it expects a resize_animated key that appears to be missing from the current core options hash:
Job exception: key not found: "resize_animated"
/var/www/discourse/app/models/optimized_image.rb:336:in 'Hash#fetch'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/optimized_image.rb:336:in 'OptimizedImage.optimize'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-animated-avatars/lib/discourse_animated_avatars/optimized_image_extension.rb:9:in 'DiscourseAnimatedAvatars::OptimizedImageExtension::ClassMethods#resize_animated'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-animated-avatars/lib/discourse_animated_avatars/upload_creator_gifsicle_extension.rb:18:in 'DiscourseAnimatedAvatars::UploadCreatorGifsicleExtension#crop!'
/var/www/discourse/lib/upload_creator.rb:115:in 'block in UploadCreator#create_for'I’m opening this as a bug report since it completely breaks all avatar upload functionality on the latest version, not just animated ones. Let me know if you need any additional logs.