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.

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.

If you use a version of web-ext older than 3.2.1, or a custom script that connects to AMO’s upload API, 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.

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.

• For web-ext: update to web-ext version 3.2.1, which has a longer default timeout for `web-ext sign`. To update your global install, use the command `npm install -g web-ext`.
• For custom scripts that use the AMO upload API: make sure your upload scripts account for potentially longer delays before the signed file is available. We recommend allowing up to 15 minutes.

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