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Software Heritage --- Notable Archive Changes
Below you can find a time-indexed list of notable events and changes to
archival policies in the Software Heritage Archive. Each of them might have
(had) an impact on how content is archived and explain apparent anomalies or
other changes in archival behaviour over time. They are collected in this
document for historical reasons.
WARNING: this document is work in progress and not considered complete
yet (tracking: T2793).

2020


2020-10-06 - 2020-11-23: source code crawlers have been paused to avoid
an out of disk condition, due to an unexpected delay in the arrival of new
storage hardware. Push archival (both deposit and save code now) remained
in operation. (tracking: T2656)

2020-06-11: completed integration with the IPOL journal, allowing paper
authors to explicitly deposit source code to the archive (announcement)


2019


2019-09-10: completed first ingestion of Bitbucket Git repositories and
added Bitbucket as a regularly crawled forge (tracking: T592)

2019-06-30: completed first ingestion of, and added to regular crawling,
several GitLab instances: 0xacab.org,
framagit.org, gite.lirmm.fr, gitlab.com,
gitlab.common-lisp.net,
gitlab.freedesktop.org,
gitlab.gnome.org, gitlab.inria.fr, salsa.debian.org


2019-06-12: completed first ingestion of CRAN packages and added CRAN as
a regularly crawled package repository (tracking: T1709)

2019-06-11: completed a full ingestion of GNU source code releases from
ftp.gnu.org, and added it to regular crawling (tracking: T1722)

2019-05-27: completed a full ingestion of NPM packages andded it as a
regularly crawled package repository (tracking: T1378)

2019-01-10: enabled the save code now service, allowing users to
explicitly request archival of a specific source code repository
(announcement)


2018


2018-10-10: completed first ingestion of PyPI packages and added PyPI as
a regularly crawled package repository (announcement)

2018-09-25: completed integration with HAL, allowing paper authors to
explicitly deposit source code to the archive (announcement)

2018-08-31: completed first ingestion of public GitLab repositories from
gitlab.com and added it as a regularly crawled forge
(tracking: T1111)

2018-03-21: completed import of Google Code Mercurial repositories.
(tracking: T682)

2018-02-20: completed import of Debian packages and added Debian as a
regularly crawled distribution (announcement)


2017


2017-10-02: completed import of Google Code Subversion repositories
(tracking: T617)

2017-06-06: completed import of Google Code Git repositories
(tracking: T673)


2016


2016-04-04: completed import of the Gitorious (tracking: T312)


2015


2015-11-06: archived all GNU source code releases from ftp.gnu.org
(tracking: T90)

2015-07-28: started archiving public GitHub repositories