NEWS: Mention SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 71260bc..52a8a4d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Released: ????-??-??
 
 Utilities:
 
+  * opkbuild now sets the standardized [1] "SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH"
+    environment variable to assist in making builds reproducible.
   * ob-buildopk now strives to build reproducible opk archives.
     Specifically, archive member modification times are set to a
     package's changelog date, owners and groups are set to 0, and file
@@ -24,6 +26,8 @@ libopkbuild:
   * ob_set_source_substvar(), ob_set_binary_substvar(), and
     ob_substvars() are now covered by the test suite.
 
+[1]: https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
+
 opkbuild version 4.0.2
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