Comment by kelnos
2 months ago
Fully disagree. The problem is that when you do need to upgrade, either for a bug fix, security fix, or new feature that you need/want, it's a lot easier to upgrade if your last upgrade was 3 months ago than if it was 3 years ago.
This has bitten me so many times (usually at large orgs where policy is to be conservative about upgrades) that I can't even consider not upgrading all my dependencies at least once a quarter.
yeah, I typically start any substantial development work with getting things up to date so you're not building on something you'll find out is already broken when you do get around to that painful upgrade.