The Software Heritage Archive is now an officially recognized digital public good (DPG). Marking a decade of operation, the Archive has evolved from a preservation project into a verified, high-impact pillar of global digital infrastructure, protecting over 27 billion unique source files.
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.
2025 milestones: from SWHID becoming an ISO standard to scaling the Archive with Kraken and expanding our global mirror network.
Research relies on fragile software. Experts discuss the crisis of “software rot,” and the role of open source and artificial intelligence.
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.
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.
Software content doubles every 2-3 years. We’re capturing this immense growth, securing code that fuels global science & innovation.
CodeCommons aims to provide a centralized repository of essential resources, including code, documentation, and metadata, to facilitate the creation of smaller, more effective datasets for the next generation of AI tools.
CodeCommons is a two-year project building on the Software Heritage archive. Here’s an overview of the projects we and our partners are working on.
On July 4 2018 the first French national plan for Open Science identified Software Heritage as a key initiative to support software used and produced in research and led to the…
