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It does help, because major version updates are more likely to cause breakage than minor ones, so you benefit if you wait for a few minor version updates. That
by esafak 2y ago
It does help, because major version updates are more likely to cause breakage than minor ones, so you benefit if you wait for a few minor version updates. That is not to say minor versions can't introduce bugs.
Windows is a well-known example; people used to wait for a service pack or two before upgrading.
- ajmurmann 2y agoWe could even wait for a patch version or the minor being out a certain amount of time. For a major I'd wait even longer and potentially for a second patch.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoAnd then they went towards a more evergreen update strategy, causing some major outages when some releases caused issues. I mean evergreen releases make sense imo, as the overhead of maintaining older versions for a long time is huge, but you need to have canary releases, monitoring, and gradual rollout plans; for something like Windows, this should be done with a lot of care. Even a 1% release rate will affect hundreds of thousands if not millions of systems.
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