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		qwerty456127 on June 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday > security updates should always be backported This means getting security updates without feature updates, doesn't it? But this time we want feature updates without a security update.

Wowfunhappy on June 22, 2021 [–]

I'd consider the microcode fix to be a security update, not a feature update.

iudqnolq on June 22, 2021 | [–]

Yep, and they don't want the fix. Hence needing feature but not security.

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