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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? 

    Neha_Srivatsa

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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

    Mark_Steinruck
    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
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    • 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. 

    Neha_Srivatsa
    Esther_Wiest
    • Esther_Wiest
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    • 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.

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