[v41.00] Creator Portal web validator incorrectly blocks publishing due to "Experimental editor setting(s)" error despite UEFN Publishing Report passing all checks

Summary

Creator Portal web validator shows “Experimental editor setting(s)” error after v41.00 update despite UEFN Publishing Report passing all checks with no experimental issues found

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Publishing

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open UEFN project (v41.00)
  2. Push project to Creator Portal (Publishing Report shows all green, including “Experimental Features: No issues found”)
  3. Open Creator Portal web and attempt to publish the island
  4. Web validator shows red X on “Experimental Features - Experimental editor setting(s)”

Expected Result

Web validator should show no experimental feature issues, matching the UEFN Publishing Report which passes all checks including Experimental Features.

Observed Result

UEFN Publishing Report (v41.00) shows “Experimental Features: No issues found” (green checkmark), but the Creator Portal web validator shows “Experimental Features” as a red error: “You can’t publish while these experimental features are enabled: Experimental editor setting(s)”. This prevents publishing from the web. No experimental APIs are used in any Verse files. Issue started after the v41.00 update on June 6.

Platform(s)

PC

Island Code

1214-9787-3061

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Additional Notes

Log shows “LogPluginManager: Mounting Project plugin SpatialMetricsExperimental” and “ValkyrieValidator_ExperimentalSettings validated 2 assets” with no errors — consistent with UEFN passing validation. Additionally, log shows: “Warning: Setting unregistered CVar HideExperimentalContentSetting” which may indicate a v41.00 regression where the experimental settings validation state is not correctly communicated to the Creator Portal web validator. Project .uplugin has IsExperimentalVersion: false and IsBetaVersion: false.

This has happened to us as well we have a week's worth of changes that we can't publish, which is frustrating because those changes resolved a lot of the project's biggest bugs.

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