Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com> wrote:
> org-todo-yesterday and org-agenda-todo-yesterday do not seem to work
> in all recent versions of org that I've tried.

I'd guess this is because org-use-effective-time is set to nil (based on
this previous issue [1]).  Setting it to non-nil should work, but I
think org-todo-yesterday and org-agenda-todo-yesterday should override
this, as in the attached patch.