I upgraded my instance last night after putting it off for many months, and now almost all of my icons have stopped working, pro and non-pro. Below is a video of the category icon selector to demonstrate. You can see I previously had fal-comment-pen. I also tried different combinations,…

I removed the raise_on_fail: false and then the rebuild failed with this: I, [2026-01-04T17:38:39.450544 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-fontawesome-pro && /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-fontawesome-pro/scripts/install.sh fatal: detected dubious ownership in repositor…

At some point font awesome changed the names of a bunch of stuff. There were some things in place to map to the old names, but maybe those aws gone now?

Thanks Jay, I remember going through that process this summer, so I don’t think that’s it. Especially since many of the default icons are missing as well. For example: [CleanShot 2025-12-30 at 11.25.24@2x]

I tried removing the FA Pro plugin, and the non-pro icons returned, so it does seem to be an issue with the plugin. [CleanShot 2025-12-30 at 19.07.58@2x]

Fontawesome broken after upgrade?

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davidkingham (David Kingham) January 4, 2026, 4:32am 5

I’ve determined it’s only pro icons that are not displaying, I was initially on Light, which are all pro. Is anyone else having this issue or just me?

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Fontawesome broken after upgrade?

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