Is there any details about how Bitcoin Core has utilized safe improvement or software safety prior to now and at present? For instance, the inclusion of third-party dependencies have to be checked and tracked so {that a} dependency does not include a vulnerability or an exploit, and the identical reasoning in regards to the construct system.

Is there any coverage and mechanism in apply for safe improvement and/or testing and verification of the safety, together with the dependencies and the construct system?

I learn someplace that early improvement of Bitcoin Core was finished in a “jail” however I could not discover another supply than the mentioning of it in that particular article:

To handle uncontrolled construct inputs, it’s tempting to “jail” builds
into sanitized environments that all the time current a canonical
interface to the underlying construct system. Certainly, this was the
method taken by early tasks equivalent to Bitcoin and Tor
(rbm.torproject.org). Nevertheless, jails lead to slower construct instances and
impose technical and social restrictions on builders who could also be
accustomed to selecting their tooling. Most jails can’t deal with
non-determinism points both

Is there any extra details about it? Was it an actual BSD jail or simply an remoted surroundings to guarantee that solely the allowed dependencies have been included?