base images do not install the latest versions of NPM & Yarn
npm is bundled with Node.js. Often the bundled version of npm lags behind the latest version of npm.
Yarn is not the latest version. It is the frozen Yarn v1 Classic version defined in factory/.env (currently 1.22.19). The latest Yarn Modern version is 4.2.2.
The sections referring to Node.js are discussing legacy Cypress versions and versions of Node.js which are no longer under support
Issue
base/README.md contains outdated information:
1.22.19
). The latest Yarn Modern version is 4.2.2.Change
Remove the outdated information from base/README.md