All assets that were on the Unril Marketplace were stuck in automatic update verification when the new version 5.8 was added.
Nothing else changed. Everything that was uploaded directly to the FAB was updated instantly.
What could be the cause?
Assets previously hosted on the Unreal Marketplace can get stuck in “Verification” or “Initializing” loops in the Epic Games Launcher due to migration backend conflicts between the old Marketplace system and Fab. While directly uploaded Fab items update instantly, legacy data requires server-side authentication that often bugs out during launcher updates.
Okay, it’s just weird. They migrated to FAB normally and never got stuck until version 5.8. But then I just added a new version and “everyone went to sleep.”