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Is there a current bug with not being able to publish components to a library?

  • July 9, 2026
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Jessica Huang

Both my teammate and I have edit access to our design system Figma file. I was able to publish some components but suddenly wasn’t able to—when I hit ‘publish’ it’s like it never registered (no toast at the bottom of the screen with the loading status, component publish status is still unpublished). It’s very intermittent—occasionally I’ll be able to publish again but will lose the ability right after.

I know it’s not a case of two people trying to publish at the same time, it’s not a connection issue (experienced this in different locations), and we are on the enterprise plan and no permissions have changed on that front. My teammate can publish components now but he couldn’t before and even got this modal. 

Is this a known bug?

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djv
Figmate
  • djv
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  • July 9, 2026

Hi ​@Jessica Huang, thanks for flagging this!
 

I completely understand how this must be slowing down your workflow. What you're describing matches an intermittent publishing issue our engineering team is already actively investigating, so this doesn’t seem to be something specific you or your teammate are doing wrong. A few things that would help us confirm it's the same issue and help the team work towards a fix:

  • What browser are you using (and does it happen in an incognito window too)?
  • Does this happen only in this design system file or in other files as well?
  • When it fails, do you see anything in the browser console (right-click → Inspect → Console tab)?
  • Any rough sense of frequency (i.e. fails 1 in 3 tries or more like 1 in 10)?

 

In the meantime, a hard refresh of the tab right before hitting Publish has helped some folks get an intermittent, temporary solution. While not a fix, this is definitely something to try while we track down the root cause.

Jessica Huang
  • Jessica Huang
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  • July 9, 2026

Hi, thanks for the reply! We’re using the Figma app. I believe this is only happening in our design system file. The success rate of being able to publish was really arbitrary, not sure of the frequency. I restarted the app and my laptop several times and met the same issue each time.

djv
Figmate
  • djv
  • Community Support
  • July 9, 2026

Thanks for the additional context, ​@Jessica Huang!

Since you’ve tried restarting the app and your laptop and are still hitting the same wall with this one file, it's likely tied to the file itself rather than your local setup. A couple more things that'd help us investigate further:

  • Roughly how many components/styles/variables are in this design system file, and is it a particularly large or long-running file?
  • Does this happen for both of you (you and your teammate) on the same file, or does his access seem more reliable than yours?
  • When it does publish successfully, is there a pattern (e.g. right after a page refresh, or after waiting a bit)?

Since this seems file-specific, the fastest path to root cause is having our team take a look directly. Would you be up for creating a ticket and sharing the file link with support-share@figma.com (with Can view access)? This will help us reproduce this issue on our end.

Jessica Huang
  • Jessica Huang
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  • July 10, 2026

Hi! It’s a pretty new file, with around 160 components (almost all of them are icons with no variants). His access seems more reliable than mine but hard to tell. The successful publish usually happens after waiting a bit.

I can definitely create a ticket if we keep running into this issue. I’ll give it a couple more days and then reach out :) Thanks so much!

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