Creator Portal falsely reports "Entitlement check failed" and blocks publishing

Summary

Creator Portal blocks release creation for a UEFN project that contains no in-island transactions or entitlements. UEFN’s Publishing Report and Output Log both state “No entitlements to validate,” while the Verse build and private-version upload complete successfully.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Publishing

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open the _1v1build project in UEFN 41.20 on Windows.
  2. Build Verse code and run Validate Project; both complete successfully.
  3. Use Project > Publish Project to create a new private version.
  4. Open private version 3969-0309-5529 v1 in Creator Portal.
  5. Attempt to create a release.
  6. Wait for the version checks to finish.

Expected Result

Creator Portal should recognize that the project has no entitlements or in-island transactions and allow a release to be created.

Observed Result

Creator Portal shows “In-island transactions failed” and “Entitlement check failed. We couldn’t complete the entitlement check. Create a new version from UEFN and try again.” Release creation is blocked.

Platform(s)

Windows PC (UEFN 41.20) this is the code of the private test

Island Code

2669-6220-6057

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Additional Notes

The project contains no Marketplace API calls, entitlement definitions, offers, prices, purchases, or V-Bucks code.

UEFN Output Log evidence:

  • LogValkyrieAurora: FValidationRequest::CancelFlow() … Reason: “No entitlements to validate.”
  • In Island Transaction Entitlement Validation: Warning: No entitlements to validate.
  • VerseBuild: SUCCESS – Build complete.
  • Upload → Channel State: Completed Successfully.

The failure was observed on July 22, 2026. This resembles the previously tracked false-positive entitlement publishing issue FORT-1035989 / FORT-1049358.

Hi thank for you the report.

The team is already investigating this issue as it was reported previously here: Blocked From Publishing for Island Transactions Experimental Feature

I’m going to close out this thread so it doesn’t create a duplicate internal bug report.

If you have any follow ups, please post it in the thread I linked