diff --git a/.changes/cli.js-package-check.md b/.changes/cli.js-package-check.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4f4d49659
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/cli.js-package-check.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"cli.js": patch
+---
+
+Packages are checked with `!=` instead of `semver` for beta releases.
diff --git a/tooling/cli.js/src/api/dependency-manager/managers/yarn-manager.ts b/tooling/cli.js/src/api/dependency-manager/managers/yarn-manager.ts
index e427fccb1..8ef912805 100644
--- a/tooling/cli.js/src/api/dependency-manager/managers/yarn-manager.ts
+++ b/tooling/cli.js/src/api/dependency-manager/managers/yarn-manager.ts
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ export class YarnManager implements IManager {
   getLatestVersion(packageName: string): string {
     const child = crossSpawnSync(
       'yarn',
-      ['info', packageName, 'versions', '--json'],
+      ['info', packageName, 'version', '--json'],
       { cwd: appDir }
     )
     const output = String(child.output[1])
-    const packageJson = JSON.parse(output) as { data: string[] }
-    return packageJson.data[packageJson.data.length - 1]
+    const packageJson = JSON.parse(output) as { data: string }
+    return packageJson.data
   }
 }
diff --git a/tooling/cli.js/src/api/dependency-manager/util.ts b/tooling/cli.js/src/api/dependency-manager/util.ts
index 5500f07e1..94ad57092 100644
--- a/tooling/cli.js/src/api/dependency-manager/util.ts
+++ b/tooling/cli.js/src/api/dependency-manager/util.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import { sync as crossSpawnSync } from 'cross-spawn'
 import { resolve as appResolve } from '../../helpers/app-paths'
 import { existsSync } from 'fs'
-import semver from 'semver'
+// import semver from 'semver'
 import { IManager, NpmManager, YarnManager, PnpmManager } from './managers'
 
 const getManager = (): IManager => {
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ function padVersion(version: string): string {
 }
 
 function semverLt(first: string, second: string): boolean {
-  return semver.lt(padVersion(first), padVersion(second))
+  return first !== second
+  // TODO: When version 1.0.0 is released this code should work again
+  // return semver.lt(padVersion(first), padVersion(second))
 }
 
 export {