diff --git a/agent/fc_agent/app.py b/agent/fc_agent/app.py
index 1f001ca..5505e56 100644
--- a/agent/fc_agent/app.py
+++ b/agent/fc_agent/app.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from .worker import Worker
 # Bump on every agent change. The page embeds this and /status reports it; the UI
 # warns to reload when they differ — so a stale browser-cached page can't be
 # mistaken for "the new image didn't deploy". (Belt-and-braces with no-store.)
-VERSION = "2026-06-30.7 · ubuntu24.04-py312-cuda12.9"
+VERSION = "2026-06-30.8 · ubuntu24.04-py312 · big-images"
 
 logbuf.install()
 cfg = Config.from_env()
diff --git a/agent/fc_agent/media.py b/agent/fc_agent/media.py
index 24a9f6e..29cbc24 100644
--- a/agent/fc_agent/media.py
+++ b/agent/fc_agent/media.py
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ from PIL import Image, ImageFile
 # and would otherwise fail the job 3× then error (operator-flagged 2026-06-30).
 ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True
 
+# Disable PIL's decompression-bomb guard: this is a TRUSTED local library, not an
+# untrusted upload surface, so a legitimately huge image (high-res scans/prints,
+# 90M+ pixels) must load. The default 89M-pixel limit only WARNS, but PIL raises
+# DecompressionBombError at 2× (~179M px) — which would fail those jobs outright
+# (operator-flagged 2026-06-30, images of 90–95M px).
+Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS = None
+
 
 def is_video(mime: str) -> bool:
     return bool(mime) and (mime.startswith("video/") or mime in {"image/gif"})