Duplicate Uploaded image orientation wrong

[Jakko W]

Affected version

2.3.7

Since the last update, my forum gets image orientation wrong for “portrait” photos. Having just uploaded a picture here, I see the same thing happening:



The original of this photo has orientation: 6 but if I download the picture above, it has pretty much no metadata at all — certainly no orientation tag.

The weirdest thing is that if I then convert the image back from WebP to JPEG (because macOS Preview can show WebP but can’t edit it) and rotate it 90° left, it gets orientation: 8 and that does get preserved if I upload it once more:

 

[ENF]

This has been reported and a patch is available here.

 

[Jakko W]

Thanks, I looked but didn’t spot that.