Discourse: build libvips 8.18 for its image worker

Discourse enabled libvips image processing by default and its worker refuses anything older than 8.18; Debian 13 ships 8.16, so the service failed to boot after an update and on fresh installs. Build the latest libvips release from source like discourse_docker does, on install and on update when a new release is out.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -571,6 +571,46 @@ Exercise vigilance regarding copycat or coat-tailing sites that seek to exploit
 
 </details>
 
+## 2026-11-03
+
+### 🚀 Updated Scripts
+
+  - #### 🐞 Bug Fixes
+
+    - Tracearr: move to Node.js 26 [@connorgallopo](https://github.com/connorgallopo) ([#18393](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18393))
+
+### 💾 Core
+
+  - fix: put the reason for a VM failure into its trace [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#200](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/200))
+- fix: check the bridge before creating a container, and its state after start [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#199](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/199))
+- ref: offer to remove only the container this run created [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#198](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/198))
+- feat: report a cancelled tool dialog as an abort and name the failing command [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#197](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/197))
+- feat: check KVM and the host's threads before building a VM [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#196](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/196))
+- ref: give a host tool one log file for the whole run [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#194](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/194))
+- fix: keep a piped stdin when output moves to the log after a hangup [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#193](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/193))
+- fix: pve-LXC: say when the container went away during its setup [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#192](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/192))
+- fix: treat Esc in a VM wizard dialog as leaving the script [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#190](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/190))
+- ref: count a container stopped during a detached install as an abort [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#187](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/187))
+- feat: find the assets of a renamed GitHub repo without the API [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#188](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/188))
+- fix: restore npm when an interrupted update left it behind [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#189](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/189))
+- feat: add var_cmode to set the container console mode [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#180](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/180))
+
+## 2026-11-02
+
+### 🚀 Updated Scripts
+
+  - #### 🐞 Bug Fixes
+
+    - FileFlows: replace the program folders on update [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([#18380](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18380))
+    - anchor: bump Node.js from 24 to 26 [@github-actions[bot]](https://github.com/github-actions[bot]) ([#18373](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18373))
+    - guardian: bump Node.js from 24 to 26 [@github-actions[bot]](https://github.com/github-actions[bot]) ([#18375](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18375))
+    - nametag: bump Node.js from 20 to 24 [@github-actions[bot]](https://github.com/github-actions[bot]) ([#18376](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/18376))
+
+### 💾 Core
+
+  - github: trim theater, add signal to the engine bug report; move AI block to end of PR template [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#186](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/186))
+- fix: do not wait forever for verbose output a daemon keeps open [@MickLesk](https://github.com/MickLesk) ([core#185](https://github.com/community-scripts/core/pull/185))
+
 ## 2026-11-01
 
 ### 🆕 New Scripts

ct/anchor.sh

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ function update_script() {
     create_backup /opt/anchor/.env
 
     CLEAN_INSTALL=1 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "anchor" "ZhFahim/anchor" "tarball"
+    NODE_VERSION="26" NODE_MODULE="pnpm" setup_nodejs
 
     msg_info "Building Server"
     cd /opt/anchor/server

ct/discourse.sh

@@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ function update_script() {
   $STD git pull origin main
   msg_ok "Updated Discourse"
 
+  if check_for_gh_release "libvips" "libvips/libvips"; then
+    ensure_dependencies meson ninja-build pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libexpat1-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libwebp-dev libtiff-dev libheif-dev libjxl-dev librsvg2-dev libcgif-dev libexif-dev liblcms2-dev liborc-0.4-dev libimagequant-dev libpango1.0-dev
+    CLEAN_INSTALL=1 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "libvips" "libvips/libvips" "prebuild" "latest" "/opt/libvips" "vips-*.tar.xz"
+    msg_info "Building libvips"
+    cd /opt/libvips
+    $STD meson setup build --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=lib --buildtype=release -Dmodules=disabled -Dmagick=disabled -Dexamples=false
+    $STD ninja -C build install
+    ldconfig
+    msg_ok "Built libvips"
+  fi
+
   msg_info "Updating Dependencies"
   RUBY_TARGET=$(grep -A1 '^RUBY VERSION' /opt/discourse/Gemfile.lock | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -n1)
   RUBY_VERSION="${RUBY_TARGET:-4.0.7}" RUBY_INSTALL_RAILS="false" setup_ruby

ct/fileflows.sh

@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ function update_script() {
   fi
   msg_ok "Ensured ASP.NET Core Runtime"
 
+  rm -rf /opt/fileflows/{Server,FlowRunner,Libraries,Agent}
   fetch_and_deploy_from_url "https://fileflows.com/downloads/ff-latest.tar.xz" "/opt/fileflows"
 
   msg_info "Starting Service"

ct/guardian.sh

@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ function update_script() {
       msg_ok "Restored Database"
     fi
 
+    NODE_VERSION="26" setup_nodejs
+
     msg_info "Updating Guardian"
     cd /opt/guardian/backend
     $STD npm ci

ct/nametag.sh

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ source "$_cs_boot" 2>/dev/null || source <(curl -fsSL "${COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_CORE_
 APP="Nametag"
 var_tags="${var_tags:-contacts;crm}"
 var_cpu="${var_cpu:-2}"
-var_ram="${var_ram:-2048}"
+var_ram="${var_ram:-3072}"
 var_disk="${var_disk:-8}"
 var_os="${var_os:-debian}"
 var_version="${var_version:-13}"
@@ -37,10 +37,9 @@ function update_script() {
     msg_ok "Stopped Service"
 
     create_backup /opt/nametag/.env
-
     CLEAN_INSTALL=1 CLEAN_INSTALL_KEEP="data" fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "nametag" "mattogodoy/nametag" "tarball" "latest" "/opt/nametag"
-
     restore_backup
+    NODE_VERSION="24" setup_nodejs
 
     msg_info "Rebuilding Application"
     cd /opt/nametag

ct/tracearr.sh

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ function update_script() {
     exit
   fi
 
-  NODE_VERSION="24" setup_nodejs
+  NODE_VERSION="26" setup_nodejs
 
   msg_info "Updating prestart script"
   cat <<EOF >/data/tracearr/prestart.sh

install/anchor-install.sh

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ setting_up_container
 network_check
 update_os
 
-NODE_VERSION="24" NODE_MODULE="pnpm" setup_nodejs
+NODE_VERSION="26" NODE_MODULE="pnpm" setup_nodejs
 PG_VERSION="17" setup_postgresql
 PG_DB_NAME="anchor" PG_DB_USER="anchor" setup_postgresql_db
 

install/discourse-install.sh

@@ -25,9 +25,36 @@ $STD apt install -y \
   gsfonts \
   brotli \
   nginx \
-  redis-server
+  redis-server \
+  meson \
+  ninja-build \
+  pkg-config \
+  libglib2.0-dev \
+  libexpat1-dev \
+  libjpeg-dev \
+  libpng-dev \
+  libwebp-dev \
+  libtiff-dev \
+  libheif-dev \
+  libjxl-dev \
+  librsvg2-dev \
+  libcgif-dev \
+  libexif-dev \
+  liblcms2-dev \
+  liborc-0.4-dev \
+  libimagequant-dev \
+  libpango1.0-dev
 msg_ok "Installed Dependencies"
 
+fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "libvips" "libvips/libvips" "prebuild" "latest" "/opt/libvips" "vips-*.tar.xz"
+
+msg_info "Building libvips"
+cd /opt/libvips
+$STD meson setup build --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=lib --buildtype=release -Dmodules=disabled -Dmagick=disabled -Dexamples=false
+$STD ninja -C build install
+ldconfig
+msg_ok "Built libvips"
+
 msg_info "Cloning Discourse"
 $STD git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/discourse/discourse.git /opt/discourse
 msg_ok "Cloned Discourse"

install/guardian-install.sh

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ msg_info "Installing Dependencies"
 $STD apt install -y sqlite3
 msg_ok "Installed Dependencies"
 
-NODE_VERSION="24" setup_nodejs
+NODE_VERSION="26" setup_nodejs
 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "guardian" "HydroshieldMKII/Guardian" "tarball" "latest" "/opt/guardian"
 
 msg_info "Configuring ${APPLICATION}"

install/nametag-install.sh

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ update_os
 
 PG_VERSION="16" setup_postgresql
 PG_DB_NAME="nametag_db" PG_DB_USER="nametag" setup_postgresql_db
-NODE_VERSION="20" setup_nodejs
+NODE_VERSION="24" setup_nodejs
 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "nametag" "mattogodoy/nametag" "tarball" "latest" "/opt/nametag"
 
 msg_info "Setting up Application"

install/tracearr-install.sh

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ msg_info "Installing Dependencies"
 $STD apt install -y redis-server
 msg_ok "Installed Dependencies"
 
-NODE_VERSION="24" NODE_MODULE="corepack" setup_nodejs
+NODE_VERSION="26" NODE_MODULE="corepack" setup_nodejs
 PG_VERSION="18" setup_postgresql
 
 msg_info "Installing pnpm"