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Comment by lpribis

4 days ago

99% of releases do NOT fix zero-days. But 100% of releases have a small risk of introducing a backdoored build-script.

There's nothing wrong with pinning dependencies and only updating when you know for sure they're fixing a zero-day (as it will be public at that point).

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