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Vendor Patch Days

As I perform the work necessary to maintain "The Radar Page" (view it here), I have found it handy to know what vendors publish bulletins on a schedule, and what that schedule is.

  • Monthly, first Monday
    • Qualcomm
    • MediaTek
  • Monthly, first Tuesday
    • Google publishes Android patches
    • Google publishes Pixel patches
    • Samsung
    • Fortinet
  • Monthly, second Tuesday
    • Microsoft
    • Adobe
    • SAP
    • Siemens
    • Schneider Electric
    • Intel
    • Lenovo
  • Monthly, second Wednesday
    • Palo Alto Networks
  • Quarterly, first Tuesday
    • Splunk
  • Quarterly, second Wednesday
    • Juniper
  • Quarterly, the Tuesday closest to the 17th
    • Oracle
  • Quarterly, no fixed schedule
    • F5
  • Semiannually, the fourth Wednesday of March and September
    • Cisco, bundles of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisories