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Jumping straight to the new release because it fixed one security bug has always struck me as a round about way of trying to achieve security through obscurity, especially when the releases include tons of other changes. Yes, this release fixed CVE-123, but how many new ones were added?

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This is a valid security strategy tho, always shifting the ground beneath the attackers feet. As the code author, you might not know where there are vulnerabilities in your code, but someone targeting you does. You will never have bug free code, so better to just keep it in constant flux than allow an attacker to analyze an unchanging application over months and years.

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