Sanity incident

Sanity CLI init flow regression

Resolved on January 20, 2026.

resolved Jan 22, 2026, 04:50 PM UTC

On January 20th at 8:52pm UTC, there was an update to the Sanity CLI that had a regression when trying to run the init flow (`npm create sanity@latest`) that resulted in a non-functioning project. This update was rolled back at January 21st at ~2am UTC. As of January 21st, the latest version should be 5.2.1.

Started
Jan 20, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 20, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC
Duration
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Detected by Pingoru
Jan 20, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Jan 22, 2026, 04:50 PM UTC

    On January 20th at 8:52pm UTC, there was an update to the Sanity CLI that had a regression when trying to run the init flow (`npm create sanity@latest`) that resulted in a non-functioning project. This update was rolled back at January 21st at ~2am UTC. As of January 21st, the latest version should be 5.2.1.

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