I can't speak for watchTowr but there are fun side-effects of this process as a customer. If you patch because of vulns (most people), and you call up support with an issue and you're ahead of the preferred release, sometimes they give you lip about not using the preferred release. Which is extra crazy when considering that customers effectively have to test the releases in production before support declares them "preferred".
Also they have rolled back preferred release versions a few times. Which would imply that even with this approach of letting less risk-averse customers test in production for them, they still miss major bugs that cause huge negative impact to customers when they tell everyone to move up to a release.
tehfishman
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2026-07-09 14:59:08 UTC
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