[Bug?]: yarn fails to run with TypeError

[esimkowitz]

Self-service

• [ ] I'd be willing to implement a fix

Describe the bug

As of about 30 mins ago, I am unable to use Yarn. It seems like there's something invalid in https://repo.yarnpkg.com/4.6.0/packages/yarnpkg-cli/bin/yarn.js

I thought it might be an issue with my Yarn version (I was on 4.5.1) so I tried updating my packageManager to the latest.

When I run yarn after updating my packageManager in package.json, I get the following error:

! Corepack is about to download https://repo.yarnpkg.com/4.6.0/packages/yarnpkg-cli/bin/yarn.js
? Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

➤ YN0001: TypeError: Invalid version. Must be a string. Got type "object".
    at new t (xxxx/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.6.0/yarn.js:132:14299)
    at Oje (xxxx/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.6.0/yarn.js:132:19226)
    at Object.Vje [as gt] (xxxx/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.6.0/yarn.js:132:19778)
    at xxxx/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.6.0/yarn.js:456:16130
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async Nt.start (xxxx/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.6.0/yarn.js:176:1995)
    at async xE.execute (xxxx/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.6.0/yarn.js:456:15488)
    at async xE.validateAndExecute (xxxx/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.6.0/yarn.js:94:787)
    at async t.run (xxxx/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.6.0/yarn.js:98:3249)
    at async HDt (xxxx/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.6.0/yarn.js:744:7928

Any thoughts? Could it be an upstream issue with corepack?

To reproduce

For me, all I had to do was run yarn to get it to repro. I'm connected to the internet and NodeJS version is v22.13.0

Environment

I can't get Yarn to run so here's my details manually:
  macOS: 15.2 (24C101)
  nodeJS: 22.13.0
  Yarn: 4.5.1 and 4.6.0

Additional context

No response

[austinamorusoyardstick]

Getting the same error I thought I was going crazy

[sawka]

Just started for me too within the last 30 minutes. running "yarn" just hangs. same stack trace.

[ElliottAtYardstick]

Same error. Multiple reports coming through the Discord support channels as well.

[esimkowitz]

It's working for me now, not sure what changed

[esimkowitz]

Can someone from the Yarn team provide a postmortem on what happened?

[clemyan]

Probably related to the GitHub outage earlier

[arcanis]

Very likely indeed; I suspect the API started returning null on the latest tags in https://repo.yarnpkg.com/tags, causing a failure in the subsequent semver.gt comparison that checks once a day if Yarn is up-to-date. Now that we know it can happen we should update the types and guard against that.