The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version updates

Short summary

GitHub's Dependabot now defaults to a three-day cooldown before issuing version update pull requests, giving maintainers and security researchers time to address vulnerabilities in a new release before it reaches your codebase. The change reduces the risk of automatically pulling in compromised or buggy dependency versions. This is a supply-chain security improvement for any team relying on Dependabot.

• •Dependabot adds a default 3-day cooldown before issuing version update PRs
• •Allows maintainers and security researchers to address findings before updates propagate
• •Reduces risk of automatically pulling in vulnerable dependency versions

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