"publish with descendants" action not publishing descendants

[shearer3000]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

experienced on multiple versions of 10 e,g. 10.3.2

Bug summary

When performing the “publish with descendants” action from the context menu on the ‘save and publish' button, the history tab on any child/descendant content nodes doesn’t show a corresponding ‘content published’ event in the history (info tab). i.e. it doesn’t actually publish the descendant contents.

Specifics

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Steps to reproduce

1. Go to a content node with children and/or descendants
2. Perform “publish with descendants” action via the ‘save and publish’ button menu
3. Go to any of the children/descendant contents, and look at history tab audit

Expected result / actual result

expected result: history tab shows a ‘content published’ event with a datestamp reflectiong when the action from reproduction steps was performed actual result: no event listed on history tab (children/descendant contents not published as instructed)