Sarfari Extension is missing after Bitwarden 1.29.0 macOS update

[ChrisBegley]

Steps To Reproduce

I'm running macOS 12.0.1 and just updated Bitwarden to version 1.29.0 in the Mac App store.

Now the extension in Safari is gone from my toolbar. I went into Safari's Preferences > Extensions and it's not in the list there.

I restarted my Mac, uninstalled and reinstalled Bitwarden from the Mac App Store, but it's still not there.

Expected Result

The Bitwarden Safari extension would be available

Actual Result

The Bitwarden Safari extension is missing

Screenshots or Videos

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Additional Context

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Operating System

macOS

Operating System Version

12.0.1

Web Browser

Safari

Browser Version

15.1

Build Version

1.29.0

[Dauwks]

Hello,

I confirm that I have the same problem since the 1.29.0 update

[cscharf]

Update/fix coming here: bitwarden/desktop#1128. Closing this item, please refer to bitwarden/desktop#1126 for updates.

[zmilonas]

@cscharf Are you planning a post mortem for this by any chance? Seemed like pretty serious "downtime"

[cscharf]

Hi @zmilonas , we perform retrospective release reviews both within our DevOps team and the engineering team as a whole (which are open to the rest of the organization for input/thoughts), so we'll definitely visit this particular issue as well. Unfortunately up to very recently (and it's only in Beta), Apple has not offered any kind of MAS "Test Flight" like it does for iOS apps, and therefore when there are changes to packaging and our build pipelines, there's no way to test its final delivery through MAS and how it will behave deployed in the wild, and Apple also removed the ability to use signed extensions within a DMG installation (it has to be MAS), so they shut the door in multiple ways on rooting out these types of issues during normal testing cycles. Once TestFlight for MAS/macOS has been released, we'll be in much better shape to mitigate these types of problems going forward.

[zmilonas]

Thank you @cscharf for this insightful answer and taking the time. Wish you all the best learnings from the retrospective.