Comment Change logs matter (Score 5, Insightful) 162
Anybody who has run software on a non-trivial scale knows how important changelogs are.
They give you some idea of what to expect, but more importantly let you know whether a problem you're having now has been fixed in the upgrade. Although developers would like everyone to run the newest version of software, in practice you don't touch production systems without good reason. Fixed pain points, and maybe security (depending on isolation) are valid reasons. "Because it's there" is not.
Elimination is a stupid move. It's a triumph of marketing at the cost of we who must run this shit.