Thread:Project:Support desk/ImageMagick version requirement or recommendation?/reply (3)

I have found that very few projects are updated. Reading the propaganda on the issue I find explanations which state this is to keep Ubuntu secure, but running an ancient version of a web server software, such as nginx, IMHO is a security risk. I find the only thing I can count on to be updated are core packages such as Linux kernel, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, PHP, etc, and even then they are just adding security fixes to current version (PHP in 12.04 is 5.3, even though the latest version is 5.5, same thing with Postfix and others I'm sure). Anything that is not in the top 0.5% of popular software is not maintained and should be installed via other sources.