diff --git a/.changeset/renovate-33c3cf4.md b/.changeset/renovate-33c3cf4.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8389a89ea1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/renovate-33c3cf4.md
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+'@backstage/catalog-model': patch
+'@backstage/cli': patch
+'@backstage/config-loader': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend-module-aws': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-import': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-react': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-proxy-backend': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-scaffolder': patch
+---
+
+Updated dependency `yaml` to `^2.0.0`.
diff --git a/packages/catalog-model/package.json b/packages/catalog-model/package.json
index a58fdcf4d5..460dafa43a 100644
--- a/packages/catalog-model/package.json
+++ b/packages/catalog-model/package.json
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     "@types/jest": "^26.0.7",
     "@types/json-schema": "^7.0.5",
     "@types/lodash": "^4.14.151",
-    "yaml": "^1.9.2"
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0"
   },
   "files": [
     "dist",
diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
index 6b8e1feb97..d64ccf0c7d 100644
--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
     "webpack": "^5.66.0",
     "webpack-dev-server": "^4.7.3",
     "webpack-node-externals": "^3.0.0",
-    "yaml": "^1.10.0",
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0",
     "yml-loader": "^2.1.0",
     "yn": "^4.0.0",
     "zod": "^3.11.6"
diff --git a/packages/config-loader/package.json b/packages/config-loader/package.json
index 3ca4b1455f..638e3dc8e0 100644
--- a/packages/config-loader/package.json
+++ b/packages/config-loader/package.json
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     "json-schema-traverse": "^1.0.0",
     "node-fetch": "^2.6.7",
     "typescript-json-schema": "^0.54.0",
-    "yaml": "^1.9.2",
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0",
     "yup": "^0.32.9"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
diff --git a/packages/config-loader/src/lib/transform/include.test.ts b/packages/config-loader/src/lib/transform/include.test.ts
index 91df723621..0913b31f66 100644
--- a/packages/config-loader/src/lib/transform/include.test.ts
+++ b/packages/config-loader/src/lib/transform/include.test.ts
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ describe('includeTransform', () => {
     await expect(
       includeTransform({ $include: 'invalid.yaml' }, root),
     ).rejects.toThrow(
-      'failed to parse included file invalid.yaml, YAMLSyntaxError: Flow sequence contains an unexpected }',
+      /failed to parse included file invalid.yaml, YAMLParseError: Flow sequence in block collection must be sufficiently indented and end with a \] at line 1, column 7:\s+foo: \[\}/,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-aws/package.json b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-aws/package.json
index c768bbe9e4..4b4e60cf4d 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-aws/package.json
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-aws/package.json
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     "@backstage/cli": "^0.18.0-next.1",
     "@types/lodash": "^4.14.151",
     "aws-sdk-mock": "^5.2.1",
-    "yaml": "^1.9.2"
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0"
   },
   "files": [
     "dist",
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/package.json b/plugins/catalog-backend/package.json
index ebed76ca90..1e3c4cf1a3 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/package.json
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/package.json
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     "prom-client": "^14.0.1",
     "uuid": "^8.0.0",
     "winston": "^3.2.1",
-    "yaml": "^1.9.2",
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0",
     "yn": "^4.0.0",
     "zod": "^3.11.6"
   },
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/modules/core/PlaceholderProcessor.test.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/modules/core/PlaceholderProcessor.test.ts
index 9bfa9027d9..b8af44b30b 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/modules/core/PlaceholderProcessor.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/modules/core/PlaceholderProcessor.test.ts
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ describe('yamlPlaceholderResolver', () => {
   it('rejects invalid yaml', async () => {
     read.mockResolvedValue(Buffer.from('a: 1\n----\n', 'utf-8'));
     await expect(yamlPlaceholderResolver(params)).rejects.toThrow(
-      'Placeholder $a found an error in the data at ./file.yaml, YAMLSemanticError: Implicit map keys need to be followed by map values',
+      /Placeholder \$a found an error in the data at .\/file.yaml, YAMLParseError: Implicit map keys need to be followed by map values at line 2, column 1:\s+a: 1/,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/modules/util/parse.test.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/modules/util/parse.test.ts
index e87de1c9a3..eda1723198 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/modules/util/parse.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/modules/util/parse.test.ts
@@ -156,12 +156,16 @@ describe('parseEntityYaml', () => {
     );
 
     // Parse errors are always per document
-    expect(results).toEqual([
-      processingResult.generalError(
-        testLoc,
-        'YAML error at my-loc-type:my-loc-target, YAMLSemanticError: Plain value cannot start with reserved character `',
-      ),
-    ]);
+    expect(results.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(results[0]).toEqual({
+      type: 'error',
+      location: testLoc,
+      error: expect.objectContaining({
+        message: expect.stringMatching(
+          /YAML error at my-loc-type:my-loc-target, YAMLParseError: Plain value cannot start with reserved character ` at line 1, column 1:/,
+        ),
+      }),
+    });
   });
 
   it('should emit parsing errors for individual documents', () => {
@@ -185,7 +189,8 @@ describe('parseEntityYaml', () => {
       ),
     );
 
-    expect(results).toEqual([
+    expect(results.length).toBe(2);
+    expect(results[0]).toEqual(
       processingResult.entity(testLoc, {
         apiVersion: 'backstage.io/v1alpha1',
         kind: 'Component',
@@ -196,11 +201,16 @@ describe('parseEntityYaml', () => {
           type: 'website',
         },
       }),
-      processingResult.generalError(
-        testLoc,
-        'YAML error at my-loc-type:my-loc-target, YAMLSemanticError: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings',
-      ),
-    ]);
+    );
+    expect(results[1]).toEqual({
+      type: 'error',
+      location: testLoc,
+      error: expect.objectContaining({
+        message: expect.stringMatching(
+          /YAML error at my-loc-type:my-loc-target, YAMLParseError: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings at line 9, column 19:\s+apiVersion: backstage.io\/v1alpha1/,
+        ),
+      }),
+    });
   });
 
   it('must be an object at root', () => {
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-import/package.json b/plugins/catalog-import/package.json
index 042e85f792..49f248ed41 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-import/package.json
+++ b/plugins/catalog-import/package.json
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
     "react-hook-form": "^7.12.2",
     "react-router": "6.0.0-beta.0",
     "react-use": "^17.2.4",
-    "yaml": "^1.10.0"
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
     "@types/react": "^16.13.1 || ^17.0.0",
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/package.json b/plugins/catalog-react/package.json
index 3f3ee5f402..560690245f 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/package.json
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/package.json
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     "qs": "^6.9.4",
     "react-router": "6.0.0-beta.0",
     "react-use": "^17.2.4",
-    "yaml": "^1.10.0",
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0",
     "zen-observable": "^0.8.15"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
diff --git a/plugins/proxy-backend/package.json b/plugins/proxy-backend/package.json
index 7eba901c54..e21173910e 100644
--- a/plugins/proxy-backend/package.json
+++ b/plugins/proxy-backend/package.json
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     "morgan": "^1.10.0",
     "uuid": "^8.0.0",
     "winston": "^3.2.1",
-    "yaml": "^1.9.2",
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0",
     "yn": "^4.0.0",
     "yup": "^0.32.9"
   },
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/package.json b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/package.json
index a1bb552435..6f3aea1844 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/package.json
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/package.json
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     "p-limit": "^3.1.0",
     "uuid": "^8.2.0",
     "winston": "^3.2.1",
-    "yaml": "^1.10.0",
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0",
     "vm2": "^3.9.6",
     "zen-observable": "^0.8.15",
     "zod": "^3.11.6"
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     "mock-fs": "^5.1.0",
     "msw": "^0.43.0",
     "supertest": "^6.1.3",
-    "yaml": "^1.10.0"
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0"
   },
   "files": [
     "dist",
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder/package.json b/plugins/scaffolder/package.json
index e6223d1952..ad46f47433 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder/package.json
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder/package.json
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
     "react-router-dom": "6.0.0-beta.0",
     "react-use": "^17.2.4",
     "use-immer": "^0.7.0",
-    "yaml": "^1.9.2",
+    "yaml": "^2.0.0",
     "zen-observable": "^0.8.15"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index e35aee85fb..e6480c9628 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -26565,12 +26565,12 @@ yaml-ast-parser@0.0.43, yaml-ast-parser@^0.0.43:
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/yaml-ast-parser/-/yaml-ast-parser-0.0.43.tgz#e8a23e6fb4c38076ab92995c5dca33f3d3d7c9bb"
   integrity sha512-2PTINUwsRqSd+s8XxKaJWQlUuEMHJQyEuh2edBbW8KNJz0SJPwUSD2zRWqezFEdN7IzAgeuYHFUCF7o8zRdZ0A==
 
-yaml@^1.10.0, yaml@^1.10.2, yaml@^1.7.2, yaml@^1.9.2:
+yaml@^1.10.0, yaml@^1.10.2, yaml@^1.7.2:
   version "1.10.2"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/yaml/-/yaml-1.10.2.tgz#2301c5ffbf12b467de8da2333a459e29e7920e4b"
   integrity sha512-r3vXyErRCYJ7wg28yvBY5VSoAF8ZvlcW9/BwUzEtUsjvX/DKs24dIkuwjtuprwJJHsbyUbLApepYTR1BN4uHrg==
 
-yaml@^2.1.1:
+yaml@^2.0.0, yaml@^2.1.1:
   version "2.1.1"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/yaml/-/yaml-2.1.1.tgz#1e06fb4ca46e60d9da07e4f786ea370ed3c3cfec"
   integrity sha512-o96x3OPo8GjWeSLF+wOAbrPfhFOGY0W00GNaxCDv+9hkcDJEnev1yh8S7pgHF0ik6zc8sQLuL8hjHjJULZp8bw==