Extension is already published, but currently isn't active and therefore not visible

[j-windsor]

I am trying to publish an update to googlecloudtools.cloudcode.

I uploaded version 1.22.0 3 days ago. According to the settings page it was published:

However, days after I published the extension page still shows the previous version (1.21.8) as the most recent version: https://open-vsx.org/extension/googlecloudtools/cloudcode

Trying to re-upload the latest extension yields the following error message:

[j-windsor]

https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/issues/755 suggests using the admin view to fix this, but I don't seem to have access to that.

[jjallaire]

I am seeing this same behavior with the quarto extension (https://open-vsx.org/extension/quarto/quarto)

If I attempt to re-publish with the CLI I get this:

Extension quarto.quarto 1.90.0 is already published, but currently isn't active and therefore not visible.
See the documentation for more information:
https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Publishing-Extensions

Looked through the UI available to me as an extension publisher but didn't see anything about "active" status and the ability to change it.

[ellacrity]

I have the same exact issue with my color theme extension, recoil. I am getting this strange error RE: the extension being published, yet not active. My extension has been published several times, successfully, since 0.3.7, but that is still the only version that appears publicly.

For now, I have to build my own extension from source and then install it. Open VSX is not working.

I have done everything that the FAQ and other resources suggest. The page the error refers to does not actually present any solutions or assist with fixing this issue.

[solomonkinard]

Git Blame has the same issue. 0.1.820230467 was published, and inactive, on 2023-07-15. On a different platform on the same day, publishing was successful for the same version number of Git Blame.

[PKief]

Have the same issue with the Material Icon Theme extension. I'm not able to publish it via CLI as well due to this error:

❌  Extension PKief.material-icon-theme 4.29.0 is already published, but currently isn't active and therefore not visible.
See the documentation for more information:
https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Publishing-Extensions

Is there any solution how to fix this?

[ellacrity]

Unfortunately, I cannot I seem to find the exact issue containing a message from one of the project maintainers or contributors RE: this problem of extensions not updating.

They said that a recent release was made that should rectify the problem. I bumped the version of my extension, then republished it and it worked.

TL;DR: Try force bumping the version and republishing your extension.

[kineticsquid]

We've seen an increase in instances of extensions being published but remaining inactive. Because the root cause(s) are likely to be deployment related, we're tracking them in https://github.com/EclipseFdn/open-vsx.org/issues/2062.