You Should Not Update Your Dependencies
The article discusses the changing landscape of software security and the risks associated with updating dependencies. In the past, it was considered best practice to keep software up to date, but with the increasing complexity of open-source ecosystems, this approach is no longer effective. The author argues that the old operating model is no longer suitable and that a new approach is needed to address the growing number of supply chain incidents.
- ▪The old operating model of keeping software up to date is no longer effective in today's complex open-source ecosystems.
- ▪Open-source maintainers are often overworked and under-equipped, which can lead to vulnerabilities in their code.
- ▪The increasing pressure to quickly release new software has led to a culture of updating dependencies without properly reviewing them.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Front Page) |
| Canonical URL | https://www.mendral.com/blog/you-should-not-update |
| Publication time | Wed, 27 May 2026 23:42:49 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-28T00:27:01.011Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-28T00:27:01.011Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
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| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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BlogYou should not update your dependencies in 2026Olivier Gambier·May 26, 2026·11 min read{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","headline":"You should not update your dependencies in 2026","description":"A brief (irreverent) history of software supply chain security, and what to do about it in the age of AI.","url":"https://mendral.com/blog/you-should-not-update","mainEntityOfPage":"https://mendral.com/blog/you-should-not-update","datePublished":"2026-05-26","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivier Gambier"}}The simpler times… Rare historical photograph of a SysAdmin, an ancient species that would later evolve into modern DevOps, circa January 1999.
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