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Changes to library but we didn't do anything

  • April 28, 2025
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Mark_Steinruck

Our team is noticing that our main design system library is having hundreds of changes flagged in the publishing panel, even after a weekend of not working on the library. The panel shows what’s modified, removed, or added, but isn’t clear what the changes are or what caused them. It’s scary publishing these types of updates because they aren’t coming from our team. Is this something being caused by Figma? How can we feel comfortable publishing so many changes when we weren’t even the ones making them? 

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      y_toku
      Figmate
      • y_toku
      • Community Support
      • May 2, 2025

      Hi ​@Mark_Steinruck 

       

      Thanks for flagging. I can definitely see how getting unexpected notifications could be a bit unsettling. Would you mind submitting a bug report by following this article: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041468234-Submit-a-bug-report? That way, our support team can take a closer look and get to the bottom of what's happening

       

      Thanks for your patience.

      Toku

        Mihailo Jancic

        Hi ​@Mark_Steinruck has this issue been resolved to you? Im building design system and i have the same problem, it feels very strange. Even on other files i get notified to publish something that i changed like 10 days ago but already have published multiple times in the meantime.

        Mark_Steinruck
        • Mark_Steinruck
        • Author
        • New Member
        • October 1, 2025

        Hey ​@Mihailo Jancic, no it’s still doing the same thing as before. It wouldn’t bother me so much if there was some type of log indicating what changed, but it’s completely obscure and continues to happen without warning. 

          Esther_Wiest
          • Esther_Wiest
          • New Member
          • November 18, 2025

          Hello ! I have the same problem too. In the library file, Figma proposes to publish changes in components that haven’t been modified by anyone. 

           

          Set apart the bug itself, it would be great to have, when you publish the library, a quick resume about what has changed in the component. The same we have in the project files, when we update the components based on the last library publication. It would be useful to review the component modification one last time before publishing.

          Lucas Cámpora

          Hi! Same issue here. Any fix?

          Stefan HM
          • Stefan HM
          • New Member
          • March 31, 2026

          Just switched from AdobeXD to Figma, bought the UntitledUI Kit and have the same problem :-(.
          Published the UntitledUI LITE Kit and as soon as it’s done it already tells me I need to publish 450 changes.

          Obviously I didn´t change a thing.
          Fresh desktop install, fresh UI Kit and it behaves very strange (at least from a newby perspective)

          adamsmasher
          Figmate
          • adamsmasher
          • Figmate
          • April 2, 2026

          Hi ​@Stefan HM!

          Thanks for your reply - I can see how that is confusing for you. This was a known bug and our engineers pushed out a fix earlier today so it should be fully resolved soon. Please refresh your tabs and let us know if you still see this happening. If you do, please share your impacted file(s) with support-share@figma.com and grant "Can View" access, and we can flag this to the team. 

          If you have any other questions let me know!

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