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>Try to lock down versions. If you get a thing working with a certain version, there's no reason you need the newest new as soon as it's pushed. You can probably live with doing a scan for updates now and again.

Agree ! it irks me a lot that I often see update bots tracking new releases.. it is just begging to be exposed to regressions.

We need to find a happy medium though. Otherwise whenever you actually need to update something (e.g. you need add a new dependency which only handles one of your other dependency if it jumps 20 releases ), you have a huge version gap to cover.




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