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This has become a recommended way to reduce the risk of supply chain attacks. 10 days is fairly arbitrary and could be shortened or lengthened in the future.
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Adds a Dependabot “cooldown” to delay non-security version updates, aiming to reduce exposure to newly published compromised or unstable releases while keeping the existing daily check cadence.
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- Configure Dependabot with a 10-day default cooldown for bundler updates.
- Preserve the existing daily update schedule.
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This has become a recommended way to reduce the risk of supply chain attacks. 10 days is fairly arbitrary and could be shortened or lengthened in the future.
A shorter cooldown might mean that we're more to encounter supply chain attacks or newly released versions with major issues. A longer cooldown means that we're less likely to get bug fixes.
Note that security updates are not affected by this setting.
Documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/supply-chain-security/dependabot-options-reference#cooldown-
Github announcement: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-01-dependabot-supports-configuration-of-a-minimum-package-age/