{"id":8760,"date":"2019-11-11T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=8760"},"modified":"2019-11-08T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:14:50","slug":"security-improvements-in-amo-upload-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2019\/11\/11\/security-improvements-in-amo-upload-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Security improvements in AMO upload tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are making some changes to the submission flow for all add-ons (both AMO- and self-hosted) to improve our ability to detect malicious activity.<\/p>\n

These changes, which will go into effect later this month, will introduce a small delay in automatic approval for all submissions. The delay can be as short as a few minutes, but may take longer depending on the add-on file.<\/p>\n

If you use a version of web-ext<\/a> older than 3.2.1, or a custom script that connects to AMO\u2019s upload API<\/a>, this new delay in automatic approval will likely cause a timeout error. This does not mean your upload failed; the submission will still go through and be approved shortly after the timeout notification. Your experience using these tools should remain the same otherwise.<\/p>\n

You can prevent the timeout error from being triggered by updating web-ext or your custom scripts before this change goes live. We recommend making these updates this week.<\/p>\n