The Dependency Bump Section Is Where the Risk Hides

Third-party version bumps carry behavior changes that nobody in the release summarized, which makes the quietest section of the notes the least reviewed risk.

First-party changes were designed, discussed, and documented. Dependency bumps import someone else’s changes wholesale, summarized by a version number and hope.

Reviewing the bump list

• Read upstream changelogs for anything touching auth, IO, or parsing.
• Diff transitive dependencies, not just direct ones.
• Verify provenance and signatures where the supply chain allows.

Use the supply chain docs, changelog, and security docs to give the dependency section a first-party review.