Open Science is a team sport; the library is the hub
Clément Pieyre, Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon, uses the Olympic rings to symbolize the indispensable role of university libraries in Open Science.
Meet our new Head of Partnerships: Bastien Guerry
Bastien Guerry, the former French Chief Free Software Officer, discusses his shift to Software Heritage. His core insight: «Policies without products are empty, products without policies are blind.» Read the full interview on building the bridge between policy and infrastructure.
It takes a Kraken to scan billions of source files
CodeCommons is testing the limits of swh-fuse using large-scale clusters. Preliminary experiments ran on the 10,000-core Kraken cluster. The system validated performance by hitting an optimal file storage rate of 30,000 reads per second and sustained 8,000 file writes per second.
LLM4CODE
Software Heritage is participating in Inria’s LLM4Code challenge, a strategic initiative aimed at building reliable and productive code assistants powered by Large Language Models (LLMs).
Meet the conservator fighting digital decay
Our newest Ambassador Nika Maltar is a digital conservator coordinating the Software Collection at the Technisches Museum Wien. Her journey, from preserving internet-native art to becoming a Software Heritage Ambassador, highlights why community-driven FOSS tools are essential for saving code—the engine of our digital heritage—from decay.
GRNET establishes new Software Heritage mirror
Every new mirror for the Software Heritage archive is a step forward for digital preservation. The newest one is in Greece with GRNET.
From lab to lecture hall: The rise of software in academia
Academic software has grown exponentially. Software Heritage Archive data shows where it’s being created, what languages are used, and the crisis in licensing.
Open Science needs a software revolution: Here’s a blueprint
The Software Heritage Open Science Strategic Blueprint outlines a bold vision to preserve and share all publicly available source code.
Why the space age’s most epic code still matters
Ron Burkey tells the story behind the Virtual AGC project and how it ended up at the Software Heritage Archive.
Université Paris Saclay
«Open-source software and codes are at the core of academic research. Building on its partnership with Software Heritage, Université Paris-Saclay will further enhance its quest to safeguard software longevity and…