yarn end of life dates — full support timeline
2 of 4 tracked yarn releases have already reached end of life. The dates below are published support dates, not estimates.
Version support timeline
| Release | Released | End of life | Latest | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2023-10-22 | not announced | 4.18.0 | supported |
| 3 | 2021-07-26 | 2024-12-04 | 3.8.7 | ended |
| 2 | 2020-07-09 | 2021-09-06 | 2.4.3 | ended |
| 1 | 2017-09-05 | not announced | 1.22.22 | supported |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported yarn release. After end of life a version stops receiving security patches, which typically becomes an audit or compliance finding before it becomes an outage. Upgrading to a supported release is the migration path; the table above shows which releases still qualify.
Source
These dates are maintained by endoflife.date/yarn, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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