The art of patching software

Patching software can be a fine art.

I mean, when do you do it?

Too soon and you run the risk of a bricked device or loss of services due to an unforeseen bug or inadequate testing.

Too late and you risk exposing yourself to CVEs and known vulnerabilities.

It’s a fine art working out just when to take a software update. It pays to backup first so that you have a recovery option should an early update fail. You can then restore from backup and wait until the patch is stable before trying again.

So when do you patch?