Vanced and ReVanced news, gathered as four running reports rather than a stream of posts. Each one tracks a slow-moving situation: what still works on old Vanced installs, where ReVanced development stands, which download sources are safe, and how the alternative apps compare right now.
News posts track ReVanced Manager releases, supported YouTube versions, Vanced legacy status, and APK security advisories.
Check this hub monthly if you rely on patched or sideloaded video apps, since platform changes can break playback quickly.
Coverage includes ReVanced Manager releases, supported YouTube versions, and APK safety alerts.
Articles explain migration paths when legacy Vanced installs stop working.
Check this hub monthly if you rely on modified video apps for daily viewing.
Where to follow ReVanced Manager releases, patch changes, and shifts in the supported YouTube version.
A recurring look at what still works on old Vanced installs, what is failing, and when to move on.
Fake APK warnings and source verification notes for anyone installing video apps outside Google Play.
A periodic check on the Vanced alternatives: which projects are active, which have stalled, and what shifted.
Very little happens quickly in this corner of Android. The app at the centre of it stopped being developed years ago, and its successor moves at the pace of a volunteer project, so a weekly news cycle would be mostly noise. Instead, four pages are kept current and revisited when something actually changes.
YouTube Vanced was a modified build of the official YouTube Android app that removed advertising and unlocked features normally reserved for a paid subscription. In March 2022 the team announced the project was shutting down after receiving a cease and desist letter from Google. Development stopped, the installer's servers were retired, and 17.03.38 became the last version anyone released. Nothing has appeared since, and no site claiming a newer official build is telling the truth.
What replaced it works differently. ReVanced is a patcher rather than a finished app: you supply an official YouTube APK, the tooling applies patches to it, and you install the result yourself. That structure is deliberate, because there is no prebuilt modified app to distribute. It also means users have to repeat the process when YouTube ships a new version.
The other thread running through all of this is MicroG. Vanced could not sign in to a Google account without it, and that login path has degraded steadily since the project ended. It is the single most common reason an old install that used to work now fails, and it is not something a setting on your phone can fix.
These pages report project status, release channels, and source safety. They do not report rumours, leaks, or claims that cannot be checked against a project's own repository or announcement. Version numbers are not published unless they come from the project itself, and a date is never attached to an event that did not have one. When something is unknown, the page says so rather than filling the gap with a plausible guess. Our editorial policy sets out the rest.
Three things move the picture. The first is whether Google account sign-in continues to work on old clients, since that determines how usable a surviving Vanced install really is. The second is the ReVanced patch set, which has to follow YouTube's release cycle to keep working. The third is the supply of fake download sites, which grows whenever search interest in Vanced does. Each is covered on its own page above.