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Red Hat blog explains backporting security fixes to open source dependencies

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The Security Blog article, which is truncated, argues that enterprises often break because of changes in third-party open source dependencies rather than custom code. It says that when a high-severity vulnerability is found in a library, teams face a choice between a rushed major version upgrade and staying exposed during validation. The post, titled around Lightwell, presents upstream collaboration and dependency backports as the way to get security fixes into the versions enterprises actually run.

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