[OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

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On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 14:44:06 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> Also, how does one update software on linux? Last I checked, 
> when new version is out, repository of the previous version 
> becomes utterly abandoned. A pity, on windows one can roll new 
> software versions as long as they are maintained.

This claim is so strange I can't even understand what it is 
about. Which repositories get abandoned?