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GitHub now includes a '3-day wait' as standard for automatic dependency updates to ...
GitHub has made a 3-day cooldown the default setting for Dependabot version updates, delaying automatic dependency pulls to reduce exposure to malicious or buggy package releases. Security patches bypass the delay and pull immediately.
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The Wire takeaway
If you ship code that auto-updates dependencies without review, your CI/CD pipeline just got slower by default—but that's now the baseline for your competitors too, so your customers expect it. The real move: security patches still run instantly, so you now have a window to build tooling that spots the difference between a genuine fix and a trojanised release.
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Topics: Developer Tools · Cybersecurity · dependency-management · supply-chain-security · open-source · devops · malicious-packages