Sorry, I only found bug 3627 after writing my post ... now I can see better how this came about.
In any case, we do need to have a better upgrade strategy for this, and such changes should be restricted to HEAD at most, and not in STABLE. Personally I would prefer to resize all the old images automatically.
I've written more in the bug report.
Themes
Profile pictures black border looks "mortuary"
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