# Software Update Policy
All 3th party libs we use directly integrated in our software are updated as frequently as possible and and those go included in the automatic updates that are done daily (eg. log4j).
The software that runs outside of the cob platform (ElasticSearch and Mysql) is updated on a "need to” basis. These updates are not automatic because they usually have breaking changes and there is a need to do stuff manually.
On top of that, we periodically run an operating system general update with all the security updates that are available for it (security updates for mysql are includeed in these updates).