Is gulp-util still maintained?

No — gulp-util stopped being maintained around December 2016. No single package succeeded gulp-util; the fix depends on what you were using it for.

• successor named by the maintainers
• high confidence
• none successor

What replaced gulp-util?

No single package succeeded gulp-util; the fix depends on what you were using it for. There is nothing to swap in, so plan the change rather than the upgrade.

Getting off gulp-util

Map usages individually: gutil.log to fancy-log, gutil.PluginError to plugin-error, gutil.File to vinyl, gutil.replaceExtension to replace-ext, gutil.colors to ansi-colors.

Why gulp-util is on this list

gulp-util was a grab bag of helpers whose last release, 3.0.8, shipped in December 2016; the gulp team then deprecated it and split it into focused single-purpose modules. There is no single successor — each helper you used maps to its own small package, and the team's write-up lists the mapping. The npm deprecation notice links to that post directly.

The succession is settled: primary sources agree and the ecosystem has already moved.

gulp-util alternatives

Beyond the primary recommendation, these are credible for gulp-util's use case:

• plugin-error — view on npm
• fancy-log — view on npm
• vinyl — view on npm
• replace-ext — view on npm
• ansi-colors — view on npm
• through2 — view on npm

Check your own project for gulp-util

npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintained

Run that in the directory holding your lockfile. If gulp-util is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.

Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.

Evidence

Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:

• npm deprecation notice for gulp-util (links to the gulp team's replacement guide)npmjs.com
• gulp team post: "The Problem with gulp-util" (Dec 2017), with the full replacement-module mappingmedium.com

Packages related to gulp-util

• codecovNo direct successor · unmaintained since July 2021
• event-streamNo direct successor · unmaintained since November 2018
• jscsSuccessor named by the maintainers: eslint · unmaintained since April 2016
• nodeunitNo direct successor · unmaintained since July 2018
• vue-resourceSuccessor named by the maintainers: axios · unmaintained since November 2016

See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.