Build tools out of date

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#1

Hey Netlify,
I just wanted to point out that a lot of your tools are out of date and really do need an upgrade, for example:

  • Yarn - 1.17.0 (netlify) vs 1.24.4 (current) (I’m confident this won’t break any builds)
  • Ubuntu (why is 16.04 the latest option?? 20.04 is much better, and there isn’t even an option for it - or even 18.04)
  • and others

Can we please at least get some kind of way to upgrade these, given that the Yarn upgrade I don’t believe will hurt any builds, as well as the Ubuntu upgrade which might, but that is what the selection in settings is for.

#2

For Yarn specifically, you can set the YARN_VERSION environment variable to get a newer version installed in your build image.

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#3

I’d definitely echo @william on the YARN_VERSION.

As for the build image, I’d encourage you to file an issue in our build-image repo:

I’m sure they’d love a PR if you want to work on Ubuntu 18.04++ support!