[parasti]

Security updates are probably the only type of updates that I wouldn't ever call a waste of time. It sucks when they are conflated with feature updates or arbitrary changes, but by itself I don't understand calling them a waste of time.

[swaraj]

They are when the only reason they are flagged as security updates is because some a single group deems a very rare, obscure edge case as a HIGH severity vuln when in practice it rarely is => this leads to having to upgrade a minor version of a library that ends up causing breaking changes.

This is the recent thread I'm down. Pandas 2.2 broke SQLalchemy backwards compatibility: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38332787/pandas-to-sql-t... + https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/57049#issuecomme...