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wyaeld
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GitLab Major Security Update for CVE-2016-4340
Its probably the most convenient window to minimise service disruption amongst users of gitlabs.
Pretty common for security patches to take place out of hours
peter_tonoli
on April 29, 2016
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Unless it creates a 'thundering herd', everyone downloading the update simultaneously, killing throughput.
jrochkind1
on April 29, 2016
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Handling large volume of downloads of one static large package is in general a pretty solved problem.
breakingcups
on April 29, 2016
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(Unless you're Apple)
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This is why torrents exist.
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Pretty common for security patches to take place out of hours