Wednesday, 1 April 2026

A time for cool heads

As of late March 2026 there has seen a noticeable uptick in sophisticated attacks involving exploits of open source software, originating from the maintainers' systems.

We need to adjust our approach to managing dependencies - the way that our projects bring in external libraries.

We have bots available for detecting when a new verious is available, and automating the upgrade process. With some tweaking of the configuration we can keep the automation, and reduce the risk of picking up a compromised dependency.

I was contemplating giving a few examples of how to configure bots and dependency management tools, but there's already a nice fresh post available for that, so head over there instead.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html

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A time for cool heads