Browserlist update does nothing

Question

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

Edit: Also posted at GitHub.

Answer 1

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The message about caniuse-lite being outdated has disappeared since then.