It appears 0.43 has changed the MIME type for .svg files using the built in server (“hugo serve”). Using 0.43, the local server sends down .svg files as “image/svg; charset=utf-8” which causes browsers to want to download rather than display the file. I identified the issue because two social icons …

Please see 0.44 release @john_b : [image] Hugo 0.44 Released Announcements Spread the word.

Hi - thanks for the report; this is a known issue: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4920

Great. I had searched for it on Github but missed that. Glad to see the team is already on it!

SVG MIME type change in 0.43

RickCogley July 13, 2018, 7:27am 5

Please see 0.44 release @john_b :

Topic		Replies	Views
SVGs not rendered in 0.43 support	9	1222	July 13, 2018
SVG files not displaying locally! support	2	917	August 2, 2018
Serve SVGZ images with hugo server (IGNORE, browser support is not there yet 1/2023) support	14	1339	January 7, 2023
Hugo server and .svgz support	6	1074	June 12, 2020
Figure shortcode and svg bug? [SOLVED] support	1	725	February 25, 2016