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hotfix

noun

Etymology

From hot + fix.

  1. derived from *dʰeygʷ-✻
  2. derived from fīxus
  3. derived from *fixer✻
  4. inherited from fixen
  5. compounded as hotfix — “hot + fix”

Definitions

  1. A cumulative package of one or more files used to address a problem in a software product.

    • When you extract the files in a hotfix, you'll generally find the following.
    • For example, the IIS 3.0 denial-of-service attacks that brought down Microsoft's web site several times in 1997 quickly led to the release of a hotfix.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hotfix. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA