VS code extension No longer avaliable

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Hello, Just I open my VS code, and I find a warning, which says that this extension is no longer available at marketplace.

What happened?

/BlueIcaro

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Hm. I also see this message “This extension is no longer available on the Extension Marketplace.”, for “Castle Game Engine” and lots of other extensions in my VS Code… I think this happened for me after upgrading VS Code today, I think I didn’t see this message yesterday.

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  1. In short: I have no idea yet what is the cause, but it seems that you can ignore this message, actually – it’s not true and it doesn’t imply any loss in functionality.

    • As it applies to numerous other extensions, I will risk saying it’s some weird hiccup in VS Code marketplace servers or new VS Code version or a combination of these 2 things.
    • I will keep observing the situation and report here if I learn anything new / if it changes. If nothing happens, I’ll write to marketplace team for explanation, of course we don’t want such confusing message.

  2. From what I can see, the message is literally not true.

    • The “Castle Game Engine” extension is in the marketplace, you can find it on this link straight to extension.
    • You can search for “Castle Game Engine” from the marketplace main page.
    • As extension publisher, everything also looks OK, my extension page for publisher says that extension is in the marketplace as always, no problems…

  3. The extension, when installed, also continues to work without any problems.

  4. I see a lot of other extensions I have in VS Code (but not all) also show this message. Like:

    • DelphiLSP (from Embarcadero)
    • File Bunny
    • Flip
    • Free Pascal (fpc) Debugger
    • Open File
    • X3D classic encoding (VRML) editing tool (by our @kagamma )
    • Zip Tools
    • … and a few more. I don’t see any pattern here, just some extensions have this weird warning, others don’t.
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P.S. As a completely unrelated problem, I just noticed that our forum didn’t allow to upload images or save posts’ drafts, since yesterday. That was an unrelated problem (I misconfigured one thing at Cloudflare), fixed now. Let me know if you observe any issue in the forum :slight_smile:

Why does it seem that “problem always come in groups”? :slight_smile:

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Hello, It’s strange, because the extension that show the advise are all CGE extensions.
As you can see in this image (instalado = installed, recomendado = advise)

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But the extension can be found on Market

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I can confirm that the extension works on Debian 13, so I think its some confusion as you say @Michails

/BlueIcaro

P.D. Yes, yesterday I couldn’t upload a image, but I thought that was some issue of my navigator.

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Solved! I have uploaded new version of the Castle Game Engine extension, 1.4.2.

  • I upgraded my vsce (tool for VS Code extension developers to build / publish VS Code extensions) to the latest version 3.6.2,
  • upgraded by Node.js to 22 (latest lts),
  • upgraded all dependent packages (npm update),

→ and the error is gone. My guess is that VS Code requires using one of the above dependencies, like VSCE, in the latest version, and this confusing warning is a result when it wasn’t up to date.

You don’t need to do anything special – just restart VS Code, it should automatically pick up extension version 1.4.2 and the warning will be gone.

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I think this was just an accident. Indeed “Pascal Magic” and “Free Pascal (fpc) Debugger” extensions have the same issue, but also few other extensions on my system, not related to Pascal / CGE (“File Bunny”, “Flip”…) have this problem.

I think we should submit similar bugreports to our recommended packages, “Pascal Magic” and “Free Pascal (fpc) Debugger”, they should also do the upgrade of theor build-dependencies (my bet is that upgrading VSCE is most important) and upload a new version. Would you be willing to do this, please please? :slight_smile: A bugreport like this:

Please upgrade build-dependencies of your extension, in particular VSCE, to avoid warning " This extension is no longer available on the Extension Marketplace” in latest VS Code. See here for details how this issue was solved for Castle Game Engine extension: https://forum.castle-engine.io/t/vs-code-extension-no-longer-avaliable/2025/5?u=michalis.

Let me know if you don’t want this task on your head, then I’ll add it to my TODOs :slight_smile: