The Yarn Blog

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Releases posts, design notes, and the occasional thinking-out-loud skeets from the @yarnpkg.dev team.

May 2026

Yarn @yarnpkg.dev May 19

We just released the 4.15 branch 🎊 One important change is that npmMinimalAgeGate will now default to 1d for new projects.

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Yarn @yarnpkg.dev May 13

The new Yarn website lets you diff packages between versions. No particular reason for that 😅 v6.yarnpkg.com/package/@tan...

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Yarn @yarnpkg.dev May 12

Reminder that Yarn lets you filter out fresh packages with `npmMinimalAgeGate` and it's a good idea to use it on your work repos!

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Technology

Package managers need more than import maps

Leveraging everything we learned these past six years working on Yarn and Node.js our team collaborated with other package managers to put forward a proposal for a new feature called Package Maps.

Maël Nison May 8, 2026 8 min read

April 2026

Yarn @yarnpkg.dev Apr 17

We just released the 4.14 branch! 🎊 Two important security changes: - `enableScripts` now defaults to `false` (can be overridden on a per-package basis) - A new `approvedGitRepositories` setting should be used to tell Yarn which git repos are safe to pack.

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January 2026

Release

Yarn 6 Preview

I'm excited to announce the next evolution for Yarn, redefining what "state of the art" means when it comes to JavaScript package managers.

Maël Nison Jan 28, 2026 5 min read

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