Why does old software get buggy when it hasn’t been updated for a while? Shouldn’t have the same amount of bugs as it was when that version was released?

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Why does old software get buggy when it hasn’t been updated for a while? Shouldn’t have the same amount of bugs as it was when that version was released?

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Yet another reason is security patches. Software often needs to be updated because there are lots of people actively trying to find ways to break it, on purpose. So it might have had a security bug all along, but no one knew about it, or had even conceived of the method of attack at the time the software was written. So it has to be changed to address that.

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