Software Heritage Activity Report: 2025
27 billion files. One trillion edges. A decade of digital stewardship. The 2025 Software Heritage Activity Report snapshots a defining moment.
Software Heritage endorses United Nations Open Source principles
By adopting the UN Open Source Principles, the archive moves beyond storage to actively champion security, diversity, and inclusivity as the foundation for global digital commons.
Preserving code: 2025 milestones in scaling and history
2025 milestones: from SWHID becoming an ISO standard to scaling the Archive with Kraken and expanding our global mirror network.
Software rot: Saving science’s digital legacy
Research relies on fragile software. Experts discuss the crisis of “software rot,” and the role of open source and artificial intelligence.
Institut Pasteur: Advancing software recognition
Data librarian Fanny Sébire and Software Heritage Ambassador Bertrand Néron detail their collaboration at the Institut Pasteur. They explain how their complementary skills are being used to drive a cultural shift, moving research software from a secondary artifact to a verifiable scientific output through standardized dual archiving.
CodeMeta Party: Shaping the future of software metadata
Join the movement shaping CodeMeta v4.0. We’re defining the standards for software metadata to improve discovery, trust, and interoperability across the global research ecosystem.
Meet the SWHID: The end of broken links, broken builds
CTO Thomas Aynaud on the SWHID: How the new ISO standard defeats fragile dependencies and guarantees code integrity.
How the Paris-Saclay library supports research software
How Paris-Saclay University, through its Data, Algorithm, and Code Administrator (ADAC) Cédric Mercier, manages institutional research data and code. Read about their strategy and new Software Heritage sponsorship.
Research Software Directory adopts SoftWare Hash Identifiers
The Netherlands eScience Center’s Research Software Directory (RSD) adopted the Software Heritage Identifier (SWHID) to ensure source code is archived for the long term.
Open source and the European skills gap
A skills shortage limits the future of tech in Europe. In a white paper from the Eclipse Foundation, Roberto Di Cosmo argues that open source can offer a fix.