Browserlist update does nothing

[marco-eckstein]

In our Create React App, the node_modules\caniuse-lite\package.json has version 1.0.30001251. yarn build tells me that

Browserslist: caniuse-lite is outdated. Please run:
  npx browserslist@latest --update-db

But when I do this, the version in node_modules\caniuse-lite\package.json stays the same, and yarn build will request to run the browserlist update again. Our project's package.json and yarn.lock are unchanged. This is the output of npx browserslist@latest --update-db:

Latest version:     1.0.30001384
Installed version:  none
Removing old caniuse-lite from lock file
Installing new caniuse-lite version
$ yarn add -W caniuse-lite

# (Warnings about peer dependencies...)

Cleaning package.json dependencies from caniuse-lite
$ yarn remove -W caniuse-lite

# (Warnings about peer dependencies...)

caniuse-lite has been successfully updated

No target browser changes

Also posted at Stack Overflow.

[ai]

1. Can you show the project’s source code? Maybe at least package.json?
2. What OS do you use?

[stephane303]

I had the same issue.
To fix it I manually removed all references to caniuse-lite in yarn.lock and then executed
npx browserslist@latest --update-db
yarn.zip

it seems the part "Removing old caniuse-lite from lock file" is not working
You'll find attached package.json and yarn.lock
OS: Windows 11
Node Version : v16.14.2

[marco-eckstein]

1. Can you show the project’s source code? Maybe at least package.json?

Unfortunately no.

2. What OS do you use?

Windows 10.

I ended up enforcing a recent caniuse-lite version by adding this to my package.json:

"resolutions": {
  "caniuse-lite": "1.0.30001522",
},

The message about caniuse-lite being outdated has disappeared since then.