{"id":241670,"date":"2026-07-28T04:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/github-adds-3day-dependabot-cooldown-to-limit-poisoned-package-adoption"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:20:44","slug":"github-adds-3day-dependabot-cooldown-to-limit-poisoned-package-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/github-adds-3day-dependabot-cooldown-to-limit-poisoned-package-adoption","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Adds 3Day Dependabot Cooldown to Limit Poisoned Package Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/github-adds-3day-dependabot-cooldown-to-limit-poisoned-package-adoption.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GitHub gives Dependabot version updates a three-day cooldown to curb short-lived poisoned packages, while security fixes still ship immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub gives Dependabot version updates a three-day cooldown to curb short-lived poisoned packages, while security fixes still ship immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}