Documentation: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/release-posts/#release-post-item-generator The Release Post Generator is no longer automatically extracting and including images from the source issue/epic descriptions when creating release post items. This creates additional manual work for contributors who have to manually add images after the release post item is generated. **Current behavior** When running the Release Post Generator on an issue/epic that contains images in its description, the generated release post item: - Creates a placeholder image path: `/images/unreleased/REPLACE_THIS_WITH_THE_IMAGE_PATH.png` (for primary items) - Does not download or include the actual images from the issue description - Requires manual intervention to add the images **Expected behavior** The Release Post Generator should: - Parse the issue/epic description for images - Download those images automatically - Save them to the appropriate `/images/unreleased/` directory - Update the image_url field in the YAML file with the correct path **Examples** where images had to be manually added after the release post item was generated, despite the source issue containing images. - !140513 from https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11901 - !140920 from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/556200 - !140911 from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/358416 **Technical details** 1. The code in [`lib/release_post/post_entry.rb`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/blob/master/lib/release_posts/post_entry.rb#L235) has logic for handling images: 1. `image_path` method generates the image file path 1. `image_commit_action` method attempts to create image commits 1. The Issue class appears to have `image_url` and `image_base64` properties However, it seems the image extraction from the issue description is not working properly. ## Investigation It looks like it didn't work in the case of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/556200 because it's a task, not an issue or epic. More specifically: **Release Post Generator**: Only supports traditional `issues` and `epics` via the API endpoints: * `https://gitlab.com/api/v4/groups/9970/issues` * `https://gitlab.com/api/v4/groups/9970/epics` Currently, there is no support for `work_items`. ### Further investigation Root Cause: Upload paths are incorrectly constructed. Looking at the source issues: - Epic 11901 has: `` - Issue 358416 has: `` When the code attempts to construct the image URLs, it comes up with: - `https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/uploads/3339963cb7891f2a77a8b638d2cdd694/Screenshot_2025-08-05_at_2.17.42_p.m..png` So we must have changed our uploads URL pattern at some point from path to ID, because the actual files are: - `https://gitlab.com/-/group/9970/uploads/3339963cb7891f2a77a8b638d2cdd694/Screenshot_2025-08-05_at_2.17.42_p.m..png` - `https://gitlab.com/-/project/278964/uploads/f8d9245f51946e519d7ef95d11b75701/Screenshot_2025-09-05_at_11.22.44_a.m..png` We just need to update the URL construction.