If you are using a version of Grype v0.51.0 or later, this announcement has no effect on you, and you can carry on.
On 25 Janurary 2025 (60 days from now), we will stop publishing updates for Grype DB for schemas v3 and v4. All related processing code will be removed. See the github issue to track technical developments Grype DB v3 schema deprecation notice · Issue #2286 · anchore/grype · GitHub .