---
title: npm-deprecate
section: 1
description: Deprecate a version of a package
---

### Synopsis

```bash
npm deprecate <package-spec> <message>
```

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.

### Description

This command will update the npm registry entry for a package, providing a deprecation warning to all who attempt to install it.

It works on [version ranges](https://semver.npmjs.com/) as well as specific versions, so you can do something like this:

```bash
npm deprecate my-thing@"< 0.2.3" "critical bug fixed in v0.2.3"
```

SemVer ranges passed to this command are interpreted such that they *do* include prerelease versions.
For example:

```bash
npm deprecate my-thing@1.x "1.x is no longer supported"
```

In this case, a version `my-thing@1.0.0-beta.0` will also be deprecated.

You must be the package owner to deprecate something.
See the `owner` and `adduser` help topics.

To un-deprecate a package, specify an empty string (`""`) for the `message` argument.
Note that you must use double quotes with no space between them to format an empty string.

### Configuration

#### `registry`

* Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
* Type: URL

The base URL of the npm registry.



#### `otp`

* Default: null
* Type: null or String

This is a one-time password from a two-factor authenticator. It's needed
when publishing or changing package permissions with `npm access`.

If not set, and a registry response fails with a challenge for a one-time
password, npm will prompt on the command line for one.



#### `dry-run`

* Default: false
* Type: Boolean

Indicates that you don't want npm to make any changes and that it should
only report what it would have done. This can be passed into any of the
commands that modify your local installation, eg, `install`, `update`,
`dedupe`, `uninstall`, as well as `pack` and `publish`.

Note: This is NOT honored by other network related commands, eg `dist-tags`,
`owner`, etc.



### See Also

* [package spec](/using-npm/package-spec)
* [npm publish](/commands/npm-publish)
* [npm registry](/using-npm/registry)
* [npm owner](/commands/npm-owner)
* [npm adduser](/commands/npm-adduser)
