Do you update immediately?

[Lammchen]

My craft forum has an update available but I have been too busy to take care of it. When you see updates to your forum software do you do it immediately? What's the longest you've let it go and were still secure?

 

[Abhi]

If it is a security update, don't take much time. Developers often feel that it is an open invitation to get hacked.

But I have seen immediate updates can be bad. Break the site as a whole because the update itself had a bug. So an optimal shelf time won't hurt either.

And last but not least, Backups all the way.

 

[Jason]

I will first go through the update log to see what is the update about. If it is an security patch and i will update it immediately else maybe later.

 

[admin]

> @Jason If it is an security patch and i will update it immediately

Nice move

 

[Jason]

@admin Good that Woltlab shows the update available in the forum suite itself, once it does i go to the site to see the log. Then i will do the update.

 

[StormyFire]

I usually update fairly promptly unless I hear that there is an issue with the latest version. ^^

 

[Sharon]

I am so paranoid about messing things up due to the fact that I am not very tech savvy that I don't usually do software updates unless I'm required to.

 

[Noble]

I will read the logs first then wait it out a bit to see how other sites do, once it is safe i will follow suit, i do hourly backups anyhow so if i mess something up i will revert to the last backup.