Comment by jononor
9 years ago
Your QA process, including automates tests should ensure there were no unacceptable changes introduced. Otherwise you ability to create and ship fixes in timely manner will be severely harmed by the fear of breaking things.
how many decades of software is your QA process, with its automated tests, covering?
Only 1 so far. My point was mostly that binary patching is generally bad, and should be avoided. It could very well be the least-bad option in this particular case. Its certainly much better than leaving security holes unfixed.