Success stories

This page highlights the success stories of Reproducible Builds, showcasing real-world examples of projects shipping with verifiable, reproducible builds. These stories aim to enhance the technical resilience of the initiative by encouraging community involvement and inspiring new contributions.

Please note this list includes projects with both 100% reproducible and partially reproducible builds.

Featured success stories

Arch Linux minimal container userland

Reproducible builds developer kpcyrd reported that that the Arch Linux "minimal container userland" is now 100% reproducible.

NixOS installation image

On the NixOS Discourse instance, Arnout Engelen (raboof) announced that NixOS have created an independent, bit-for-bit identical rebuilding of the nixos-minimal image that is used to install NixOS.

Yocto Project's core metadata (OpenEmbedded-Core)

The Yocto Project reported that it's core metadata (OpenEmbedded-Core) is now reproducible for all recipes (100% coverage) after issues with newer languages such as Golang were resolved.

2023

CPython source tarballs

Seth Larson published a blog post investigating the reproducibility of the CPython source tarballs.
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Delta chat clients

Delta Chat, an open source messaging application that can work over email, announced that the Rust-based core library underlying Delta chat application is now reproducible.
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2022

Java Reproducible Central

Hervé Boutemy posted to our mailing list with an announcement that the Java Reproducible Central has hit the milestone of "500 fully reproduced builds of upstream projects".
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Debian

In Debian, the essential and required package sets became 100% reproducible in Debian bookworm on the amd64 and arm64 architectures.
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Reproducible Builds for Bullseye, Bookworm and beyond

NixOS, GNU Guix, Yocto, and F-droid support reproducible builds.
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2021

Tor browser

The secure/anonymous Tor browser now supports reproducible source releases.
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2017

Tails

Tails announced that they were proud to present Tails 3.3 as one of the "world's first reproducible ISO images".
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2016

Coreboot Images

100% Of The 289 Coreboot Images Are Now Built Reproducibly by Phoronix.
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Scala

The first non-trivial library written in the Scala programming language on the Java Virtual Machine was released with Arnout Engelen's sbt-reproducible-builds plugin enabled during the build. This resulted in Akka 2.5.22 becoming reproducible, both for the artifacts built with version 2.12.8 and 2.13.0-RC1 of the Scala compiler.
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