@ksc as of version 17,02 VMWare is still using zlib version 1.2.12 I really hope you will update to version 1.2.13 due to the critical CVE-2022-37434 with score 9.8.
And I really hope will update the glib module as you are still using the version 2.48.2 from the year 2016. The current version is 2.76.
The 7zip is still version 18.05 from 2018. there were new releases with performance improvements.
libiconv is still version 1.15 from 2017 the latest version is 1.17
Libintl is still version 0.20.1 there is a new version 0.21.1
Libcurl is still version 7.79 there is a new version 8.1
Libxml2 is still version 2.9..14.9 there is anew version 2.11.4
Thinprint is still version 11 there is a new version 13
Libexpat is still version 2.4.9 there is a new version 2.5.0 includes security fixes