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 Here's what happened in the [Reproducible Builds](https://reproducible-builds.org) effort between Sunday July 15 and Saturday July 21 2018:
 
+* The default GCC version in Debian unstable was changed from GCC 7 to GCC 8. Unfortunately as we have not updated our build path patches for this latter version, this is resulting in a large number of packages becoming unreproducible in our testing framework. Holger Levsen has [temporarily disabled rescheduling of already tested packages](https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net/commit/53fc8962) accordingly, note however that newly uploaded versions will still be tested and most likely become unreproducible if using GCC 8.
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 * The schedule for the [DebConf18](https://debconf18.debconf.org/) annual Debian Developers conference [was published](https://debconf18.debconf.org/schedule/), including talks entitled:
 
   * "[Reproducible Buster and beyond](https://debconf18.debconf.org/talks/80-reproducible-buster-and-beyond/)" by the Reproducible Builds team
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 * Bernhard M. Wiedemann [completed rebuilding all official openSUSE-Leap-15.0 packages](https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-07/msg00119.html). No bit-for-bit identical rebuilds are possible yet (as file modification times are kept). However, several new bugs were found/fixed, and no backdoors were found.
 
-* The default GCC version in Debian unstable was changed from GCC 7 to GCC 8. Unfortunately as we have not updated our build path patches for this latter version, this is resulting in a large number of packages becoming unreproducible in our testing framework. Holger Levsen has [temporarily disabled scheduling of some packages](https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net/commit/53fc8962) accordingly.
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 * Chris Lamb's patches to [ensure Debian initrd images are reproducible](https://bugs.debian.org/845034) were merged and released by Ben Hutchings.
 
 * Eli Schwartz posted to [our mailing list](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/) with a [patch to extend the buildinfo support in makepkg](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2018-July/001083.html) in [Archlinux](https://www.archlinux.org/).
 
-* Holger Levsen [submitted a request to the Prototype Fund](https://prototypefund.de/project/reproducible-builds-in-der-wirklichkeit/) entitled «*Reproducible Builds in der Wirklichkeit*» ("Reproducible builds in reality").
+* Holger Levsen's [proposal to the Prototype Fund](https://prototypefund.de/project/reproducible-builds-in-der-wirklichkeit/) entitled «*Reproducible Builds in der Wirklichkeit*» ("Reproducible builds in reality") has been accepted in their fourth round.
 
 * Chris Lamb updated [diffoscope](https://diffoscope.org) (our in-depth "diff-on-steroids" utility which helps us diagnose reproducibility issues in packages) to [wrap jsondiff calls with a try-except to prevent fatal errors](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/commit/794f815) to close Debian bugs [#903447](https://bugs.debian.org/903447) and [#903449](https://bugs.debian.org/903449).