Except if you get your OS from a particular vendor, like Apple, Google, or Ubuntu, you only have to check with the vendor to see when it will be released. All t

Except if you get your OS from a particular vendor, like Apple, Google, or Ubuntu, you only have to check with the vendor to see when it will be released. All three have track records of timely updates. The real problem is patch-gapping across updates (instead of within an update), which Apple also suffers from: https://blog.theori.io/research/webkit-type-confusion/ https://blog.theori.io/research/webkit-type-confusion/ I'd expect both Apple and Google to spend the resources to automate this problem away, but the article shows this hasn't happened.