This is what breith was referring to, from the patch notes:
Icons are now required to have correct size (which can be overridden by icon_size property). (45700)
32x32px for entity, fluid, item, item-group, recipe, technology, virtual-signal
128x128px for achievement, tutorial
If icon path references base mod, technology icon is expected to be 128x128px and item-group icon 64x64px.
In near future, we may remove default sizes and require icon_size to be always specified.