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by dx034 3449 days ago
In the past they backported imported security fixes (e.g. a fix in 1.7.4 was also in 1.6.4).

I'd first wait and see if there are security fixes that are not available for 1.7 and affect packages you use. It could very well be that this is not going to be the case for a long while.