whoiswalid on "Media upload issues with new Wordpress version"

Since the upgrade to the new version, the Media upload DOES NOT WORK any more, either tring to 'add new' in the library with drag and drop or with the browser's built-in file uploader option. It was working perfectly before the upgrade.
Now the upload reaches 100%, then shows 'HTTP error', and the image looks as broken in the media library.
I leat from the support forum that this is a very common issue among users since the last update, so I would kindly ask you to look into this as fix it as soon as possible.
I would rather not start using exteal FTPs to upload images...
Many Thanks!

I have this same issue. It only started happening this week since the WP upgrade.
Have tried a number of things including changing permissions, etc.
Nothing is working. Please help.

This seems to be happening to a lot of people (including me).
List of things that have been tried with no solution:

• Deactivating all plugins
• using a different theme
• uploading all 3 ways (add media/featured image selection/dragging image to upload area)
• even directly uploading the image to the uploads folder in hosting

Strangely nothing has worked which leads me to think its the updated release of WordPress. No issues were found until the update.
If anyone knows how to get into contact with WordPress admins for this fix... a lot of people could use the help.

Just following up on this thread. I have also been having the same issues and just wanted to check in to see if there have been any corrections for this or if anyone has experienced a resolve for this issue.

It looks like it's a server timeout issue. This seemed to have worked for me:

Open wp-config.php in your sites main directory via FTP (or cPanel)
Scroll to the line which reads:

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Add the code above the line:

set_time_limit(60);
/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */text

Some hosting companies may not allow you to overwrite this setting from wp-config. However, you can still try.