I update our Discourse once a week so we’re never too far behind and this morning I updated to 2026.7.0-latest +182 GitHub
Everything seemed ok but we’re seeing some odd issues in the last hour or two with images not appearing correctly.
eg:
If I right-click and open the image in a new window, it’s accessible ok on our AWS S3 at https://d1q8cepst0v8xp.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/4/84ade505efc54e3fce3515a02cadcec55f2d8e4f.png
As you’ll see here:
We’re also seeing onebox previews not working anymore.
The onebox thing is weird, it worked in the composer:
But when posted, no image was visible:
We’re also seeing links to images not actually displaying the images:
A bigger issue and concern is that all emails are now failing to send.
Sidekiq is showing a “Jobs::HandledExceptionWrapper: Wrapped Net::OpenTimeout: execution expired” error.
I updated Discourse around six hours ago and emails do appear to have gone out since the updates, and only seem to have stopped working two hours or so ago.
Puzzling, to say the least.
We use AWS SES for email.
Here’s a screenshot of the /logs screen:
And a screenshot from htop:
For reference, we have a separate website on a different domain which uses the same AWS SES and emails are going out just fine from there.
That same website also uses AWS S3 and we’re able to upload fine there too.
If I didn’t know any better I’d say Amazon were having some issues, but everywhere I look I can find no issues reported.
Is anyone else having unexplained issues?
Does anyone know where I might start in trying to diagnose these issues? Are there any services or processes I could restart via rails or something?
The biggest concern is no email going out, new user activations, lost passwords, all being queued up.
