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'Set it and forget it' attitude to open-source software has become a major security problem, says Veracode

trevorde Silver badge

Fix one thing, break two others

Just an update from down in the trenches:

Updating a third party library, for whatever reason, brings in the risk of regressions. Retesting the software is time consuming and expensive, so updating is avoided.

Quite often APIs also change, so it can be a large engineering effort to reintegrate libraries (I'm looking at you: React, .NET, Swashbuckle ...)

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