GitHub Adds 3-Day Dependabot Cooldown to Limit Poisoned Package Adoption

GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull request. "The cooldown configuration option in the dependabot.yml still controls the behavior, though, so you can choose a different cooldo...

The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version updates

In September 2025, an attacker phished the credentials of a single npm maintainer and published booby-trapped versions of chalk, debug, and around a dozen other packages that are together downloaded more than 2 billion times a week. The code rewrote cryptocurrency wallet addresses inside any...