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by embedding-shape 226 days ago
> Nobody thought about mutable releases being utterly bad _before_? Baffles me...

Some of us been requesting it as a feature since 2016, just because it wasn't implemented until now doesn't mean even people inside GitHub hasn't thought about it.

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It's funny they call it "adding a new layer of supply chain security", when I reported it in August 2015 I got this answer:

> Thanks for the submission. We have reviewed your report and determined that it does not present a security risk. Tags and releases are not directly associated. The author lookup for a given release is done when that release is created and not upon subsequent updates. I can see how that could lead to some confusing behavior. I passed your observations on to our developers to see if we would want to change that behavior in the future. But, given that it does not present a security risk, it is not eligible for reward under the Bug Bounty program.