dependencies

Patches deployed for dependency vulnerabilities cause breakages 75% of the time, a new report has revealed. Minor updates were found to break clients 94% of the time, and for version upgrades this was 95%. Software dependencies — the external code or libraries that a project requires to function properly — are notoriously difficult to manage during application development. Remediating vulnerabilities in dependencies requires a major version update 24% of the time. “Seemingly the most straight-forward…