diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 443f860ed..f2e56e049 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -112,10 +112,13 @@ COPY package*.json ./
 # scripts/postinstall.js rides along: `npm ci` below runs the hook, which fails
 # when the file is missing. With the patcher present the hook applies it in
 # --best-effort mode; the explicit fatal run right after is the real gate.
-COPY scripts/postinstall.js scripts/patch-wwebjs-201832.js scripts/wwebjs-201832.patch ./scripts/
+COPY scripts/postinstall.js scripts/patch-wwebjs-201832.js scripts/wwebjs-201832.patch scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js ./scripts/
 
-# Install production dependencies only, then apply the backport patcher (needs `patch`).
-RUN npm ci --omit=dev && node scripts/patch-wwebjs-201832.js && npm cache clean --force
+# Install production dependencies only, then apply the backports.
+RUN npm ci --omit=dev \
+    && node scripts/patch-wwebjs-201832.js \
+    && node scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js \
+    && npm cache clean --force
 
 # Replace the npm the base image bundles. npm is not on the request path — the entrypoint runs
 # `node dist/main` — but it stays in the image because the operator runbooks drive it
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d20b5018b..e6a45bde1 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     "lint": "eslint \"{src,apps,libs,test}/**/*.ts\"",
     "lint:fix": "eslint \"{src,apps,libs,test}/**/*.ts\" --fix",
     "test": "jest",
-    "test:scripts": "node --test scripts/postinstall.spec.js",
+    "test:scripts": "node --test scripts/postinstall.spec.js scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.spec.js",
     "test:watch": "jest --watch",
     "test:cov": "jest --coverage",
     "test:debug": "node --inspect-brk -r tsconfig-paths/register -r ts-node/register node_modules/.bin/jest --runInBand",
diff --git a/scripts/check-dockerignore.mjs b/scripts/check-dockerignore.mjs
index e79377cfd..677671883 100644
--- a/scripts/check-dockerignore.mjs
+++ b/scripts/check-dockerignore.mjs
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ const mustKeep = [
   'dashboard/src/main.tsx',
   'scripts/postinstall.js',
   'scripts/patch-wwebjs-201832.js',
+  'scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js',
   'scripts/wwebjs-201832.patch',
   'docker-entrypoint.sh',
   'docs/01-project-overview.md',
diff --git a/scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js b/scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..19f470f70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+/**
+ * Add destination-chat context to whatsapp-web.js link-preview generation.
+ *
+ * WhatsApp Web selects a different preview transport for newsletters. The released
+ * whatsapp-web.js 1.34.7 call omits the chat, so the internal action cannot select
+ * that transport even though the message is later sent through the newsletter job.
+ *
+ * The source transform is deliberately exact and self-disabling. An unknown shape
+ * fails the production image build instead of silently shipping without the fix.
+ */
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const DEFAULT_WWJS = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'node_modules', 'whatsapp-web.js');
+const UTILS_PATH = path.join('src', 'util', 'Injected', 'Utils.js');
+const LEGACY_CALL =
+  "let preview = await window\n                    .require('WAWebLinkPreviewChatAction')\n                    .getLinkPreview(link);";
+const CONTEXT_CALL =
+  "let preview = await window\n                    .require('WAWebLinkPreviewChatAction')\n                    .getLinkPreview(link, chat);";
+
+function occurrences(source, needle) {
+  return source.split(needle).length - 1;
+}
+
+function applyBackport(wwjsDir = DEFAULT_WWJS) {
+  const utilsFile = path.join(wwjsDir, UTILS_PATH);
+  if (!fs.existsSync(utilsFile)) {
+    throw new Error(`whatsapp-web.js Utils.js not found at ${utilsFile}`);
+  }
+
+  const source = fs.readFileSync(utilsFile, 'utf8');
+  const legacyCount = occurrences(source, LEGACY_CALL);
+  const contextCount = occurrences(source, CONTEXT_CALL);
+
+  if (legacyCount === 0 && contextCount === 1) {
+    return {
+      skipped: true,
+      reason: 'installed whatsapp-web.js already passes destination chat context',
+    };
+  }
+  if (legacyCount !== 1 || contextCount !== 0) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `unsupported Utils.js shape (legacy calls: ${legacyCount}, context calls: ${contextCount}); ` +
+        're-evaluate the newsletter preview backport against the installed whatsapp-web.js',
+    );
+  }
+
+  fs.writeFileSync(utilsFile, source.replace(LEGACY_CALL, CONTEXT_CALL));
+  return { skipped: false, note: 'destination chat context added to link previews' };
+}
+
+function run() {
+  const bestEffort = process.argv.includes('--best-effort');
+  try {
+    const result = applyBackport();
+    console.log(
+      `patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview: ${result.skipped ? `skipped — ${result.reason}` : result.note}`,
+    );
+  } catch (error) {
+    if (bestEffort) {
+      console.warn(`patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview: skipped — ${error.message}`);
+      return;
+    }
+    console.error(`patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview: ${error.message}`);
+    process.exitCode = 1;
+  }
+}
+
+if (require.main === module) run();
+
+module.exports = { applyBackport, LEGACY_CALL, CONTEXT_CALL };
diff --git a/scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.spec.js b/scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a748f69cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const test = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const os = require('os');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const { applyBackport } = require('./patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js');
+
+const LEGACY_CALL =
+  "let preview = await window\n                    .require('WAWebLinkPreviewChatAction')\n                    .getLinkPreview(link);";
+const CONTEXT_CALL =
+  "let preview = await window\n                    .require('WAWebLinkPreviewChatAction')\n                    .getLinkPreview(link, chat);";
+
+function makeDependency(source) {
+  const root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'openwa-newsletter-preview-'));
+  const utils = path.join(root, 'src', 'util', 'Injected', 'Utils.js');
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(utils), { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(utils, source);
+  return { root, utils };
+}
+
+test('patches link-preview generation to include the destination chat', () => {
+  const { root, utils } = makeDependency(`before\n${LEGACY_CALL}\nafter\n`);
+
+  const result = applyBackport(root);
+
+  assert.deepEqual(result, { skipped: false, note: 'destination chat context added to link previews' });
+  assert.equal(fs.readFileSync(utils, 'utf8'), `before\n${CONTEXT_CALL}\nafter\n`);
+});
+
+test('is idempotent when destination chat context is already present', () => {
+  const { root, utils } = makeDependency(`before\n${CONTEXT_CALL}\nafter\n`);
+  const original = fs.readFileSync(utils, 'utf8');
+
+  assert.deepEqual(applyBackport(root), {
+    skipped: true,
+    reason: 'installed whatsapp-web.js already passes destination chat context',
+  });
+  assert.equal(fs.readFileSync(utils, 'utf8'), original);
+});
+
+test('rejects an unknown dependency shape without changing it', () => {
+  const { root, utils } = makeDependency('window.WWebJS.sendMessage = async () => {};\n');
+  const original = fs.readFileSync(utils, 'utf8');
+
+  assert.throws(() => applyBackport(root), /unsupported Utils\.js shape/);
+  assert.equal(fs.readFileSync(utils, 'utf8'), original);
+});
+
+test('rejects an ambiguous dependency shape without changing it', () => {
+  const { root, utils } = makeDependency(`${LEGACY_CALL}\n${CONTEXT_CALL}\n`);
+  const original = fs.readFileSync(utils, 'utf8');
+
+  assert.throws(() => applyBackport(root), /unsupported Utils\.js shape/);
+  assert.equal(fs.readFileSync(utils, 'utf8'), original);
+});
diff --git a/scripts/postinstall.js b/scripts/postinstall.js
index b44696dda..97c88d51f 100644
--- a/scripts/postinstall.js
+++ b/scripts/postinstall.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /**
  * Post-install hook (npm `postinstall`).
  *
- * Two conditional steps, each skipped when its target is absent so the hook is a no-op where the
+ * Three conditional steps, each skipped when its target is absent so the hook is a no-op where the
  * piece is missing (the Docker builder stage copies package*.json long before any source):
  *
  *   1. `npm run dashboard:ci` when dashboard/ exists — the dashboard carries its own lockfile and
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
  *      itself decides fatality: under --best-effort it warns and exits 0 for a pristine-but-
  *      unpatched tree (no `patch` binary, Baileys-only user), but exits 1 for a HALF-patched
  *      tree — which must never be waved through. So a non-zero status here is propagated as-is.
+ *   3. `node scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js --best-effort` when present. The production
+ *      Docker stage runs it again without best-effort, making dependency drift a build failure.
  *
  * Structured like scripts/patch-wwebjs-201832.js: pure planning + injectable spawn, so the spec
  * (scripts/postinstall.spec.js, node:test) exercises every branch without a real npm run.
@@ -44,6 +46,15 @@ function planSteps(root) {
       options: { stdio: 'inherit', cwd: root },
     });
   }
+  const previewPatcher = path.join(root, 'scripts', 'patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js');
+  if (fs.existsSync(previewPatcher)) {
+    steps.push({
+      name: 'whatsapp-web.js newsletter preview backport (scripts/patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js --best-effort)',
+      command: process.execPath,
+      args: [previewPatcher, '--best-effort'],
+      options: { stdio: 'inherit', cwd: root },
+    });
+  }
   return steps;
 }
 
diff --git a/scripts/postinstall.spec.js b/scripts/postinstall.spec.js
index 3dd01fb76..cfafa22af 100644
--- a/scripts/postinstall.spec.js
+++ b/scripts/postinstall.spec.js
@@ -18,13 +18,18 @@ const { planSteps, failureReason, run } = require('./postinstall.js');
 const OK = { status: 0, signal: null, error: null };
 
 /** Bare temp dir optionally holding a dashboard/ and/or the patch script. */
-function makeRoot({ dashboard = false, patcher = false } = {}) {
+function makeRoot({ dashboard = false, patcher = false, previewPatcher = false } = {}) {
   const root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'openwa-postinstall-'));
   if (dashboard) fs.mkdirSync(path.join(root, 'dashboard'));
-  if (patcher) {
+  if (patcher || previewPatcher) {
     fs.mkdirSync(path.join(root, 'scripts'));
+  }
+  if (patcher) {
     fs.writeFileSync(path.join(root, 'scripts', 'patch-wwebjs-201832.js'), '// stub\n');
   }
+  if (previewPatcher) {
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(root, 'scripts', 'patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview.js'), '// stub\n');
+  }
   return root;
 }
 
@@ -59,6 +64,14 @@ test('planSteps: patcher only plans the best-effort backport via the current nod
   assert.deepEqual(steps[0].args.slice(1), ['--best-effort']);
 });
 
+test('planSteps: newsletter preview patcher plans its own best-effort backport', () => {
+  const steps = planSteps(makeRoot({ previewPatcher: true }));
+  assert.equal(steps.length, 1);
+  assert.equal(steps[0].command, process.execPath);
+  assert.match(steps[0].args[0], /patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview\.js$/);
+  assert.deepEqual(steps[0].args.slice(1), ['--best-effort']);
+});
+
 test('planSteps: both present plans dashboard first, patcher second', () => {
   const steps = planSteps(makeRoot({ dashboard: true, patcher: true }));
   assert.equal(steps.length, 2);
@@ -66,6 +79,14 @@ test('planSteps: both present plans dashboard first, patcher second', () => {
   assert.equal(steps[1].command, process.execPath);
 });
 
+test('planSteps: dashboard and both patchers run in stable order', () => {
+  const steps = planSteps(makeRoot({ dashboard: true, patcher: true, previewPatcher: true }));
+  assert.equal(steps.length, 3);
+  assert.equal(steps[0].command, 'npm run dashboard:ci');
+  assert.match(steps[1].args[0], /patch-wwebjs-201832\.js$/);
+  assert.match(steps[2].args[0], /patch-wwebjs-newsletter-preview\.js$/);
+});
+
 test('run: nothing to do exits 0 and never spawns', () => {
   const { calls, spawn } = fakeSpawn([OK]);
   assert.equal(run(makeRoot(), spawn), 0);
diff --git a/src/engine/adapters/wwebjs-newsletter-preview.spec.ts b/src/engine/adapters/wwebjs-newsletter-preview.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5158d6f0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/engine/adapters/wwebjs-newsletter-preview.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+describe('whatsapp-web.js newsletter link-preview backport', () => {
+  it('passes the destination chat to link-preview generation', () => {
+    const dependencyRoot = path.dirname(require.resolve('whatsapp-web.js/package.json'));
+    const source = fs.readFileSync(path.join(dependencyRoot, 'src', 'util', 'Injected', 'Utils.js'), 'utf8');
+
+    expect(source).toContain('.getLinkPreview(link, chat);');
+  });
+});