From 431486e7009b0a33c17f72ffa63d4db3e8f16610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Mr.Web" <lombardi.nd@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 14:33:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix null author locale when saving new content

When creating a new content record, $originalAuthor is null because
there is no original content to get the author from. This causes a
fatal error at line 184 when calling ->getLocale() on null.

Falls back to the request locale when originalAuthor is null.

Fixes #3696
---
 src/Controller/Backend/ContentEditController.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Controller/Backend/ContentEditController.php b/src/Controller/Backend/ContentEditController.php
index 6129435c6..c9c26fc1d 100644
--- a/src/Controller/Backend/ContentEditController.php
+++ b/src/Controller/Backend/ContentEditController.php
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ public function save(Request $request, ?Content $originalContent = null, ?Conten
         $event = new ContentEvent($content);
         $this->dispatcher->dispatch($event, ContentEvent::POST_SAVE);
 
-        $locale = $originalAuthor->getLocale();
+        $locale = $originalAuthor ? $originalAuthor->getLocale() : $request->getLocale();
 
         // If we're "Saving Ajaxy"
         if ($request->isXmlHttpRequest()) {