Set featured Image from frontend after post

Hi!
I updated wordpress to version 3.5 and one of my functions not working anymore.
I have a page with post form from frontend where users can submit posts to one category.

After the upgrade to 3.5 i can create post fine and upload image too in the media lubrary but , the function that i use to attach the uploaded image like featured image to the post not working for some reason that i can’t fnd why.

i use this code to set featured image after the post is sucessful created and the image is uploaded to the media library.I can capture the $post_id and the $attach_id
wpuf_set_post_thumbnail( $post_id, $attach_id );

I made change to the code too but without luck
add_post_meta( $post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $attach_id,true );

i I manualy ad post_meta to the post in the database the image is apearing as featured fine but i must set the “_edit_lock” first.
when i ad this code the _edit_lock is inserted in the post_meta but not the “_thumbnail_id”

add_post_meta( $post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $attach_id,true );
       add_post_meta( $post_id, '_edit_lock', time().':1',true);

in wordpress 3.5 is any restrictions about "_thumbnail_id" post_meta execution from fronted ?

Any help to acomplish this please?
Thanks!