Official LineageOS 17.1 for Fairphone 3/Fairphone 3+

I don’t quite get what you mean by “vendor image”. Included with the update you will get an image of the vendor partition vendor.img with proprietary binaries originating from this stock OTA release. For example, on my device I have “Vendor security patch level: October 5, 2020”. How exactly did you do the upgrade from unofficial to official? Feel free to PM me if we get into too much detail.