{"id":"6a4aea2827373c77e4cb35e3","title":"2026 07 06","path":"how-to/committee/release-notes/2026-07-06","contentMarkdown":"# 06-Jul-2026 — Pasting an image into content saves reliably again\n\n## [build 747](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/actions/runs/28758523783) — [commit 0bc3987](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/commit/0bc39872e750629fd6cfa13d6ee4a03694f9d0ad)\n\n_____\n\nPasting an image into the cropper and saving produced a 500 that\nreturned an HTML error page, which the upload response handler then\ntried to JSON.parse (\"Unexpected token '<'\"), crashing the editor.\n\nRoot cause: a pasted image arrives as a base64 data URL that becomes\nthe column imageSource / preloadImage. The cropper built the upload\nFile with its name set to that entire data URL, so the multipart part\nheader was ~870KB and multer/busboy rejected it, yielding Express's\ndefault 500 HTML page.\n\n- file-utils: applyBase64ToFile now routes the requested name through\na new safeUploadFileName, which falls back to a generated\npasted-content filename when the name is a data URL or over 255\nchars. Covers both croppedFile paths (imageCropped and the\nnon-croppable auto-generate), so any paste gets a real filename.\n- file-upload.service: validateAndParse no longer throws on a\nnon-JSON response; it shows a clear upload error instead of an\nuncaught SyntaxError.\n- aws-routes: the file-upload route wraps multer so a parse/limit\nerror returns a JSON 400 instead of a 500 HTML page.","contentHtml":"

06-Jul-2026 — Pasting an image into content saves reliably again

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build 747 — commit 0bc3987

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Pasting an image into the cropper and saving produced a 500 that\nreturned an HTML error page, which the upload response handler then\ntried to JSON.parse ("Unexpected token '<'"), crashing the editor.

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Root cause: a pasted image arrives as a base64 data URL that becomes\nthe column imageSource / preloadImage. The cropper built the upload\nFile with its name set to that entire data URL, so the multipart part\nheader was ~870KB and multer/busboy rejected it, yielding Express's\ndefault 500 HTML page.

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