With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news.

other discussions
 

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html

Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project [1], we've decided it's
time to say that Debian must ship reproducible packages. Since yesterday, we
have enabled our migration software to block migration of new packages that
can't be reproduced [2] or existing packages (in testing) that regress in
reproducibility.