Errata

2025-12-04

On this date, while performing production pipeline expansion, we inadvertently published a test package to the production transparency log (index 39, with the entire entry cited below). While this was a process error (which has since been patched), it provided an unintentional but valuable audit of the log's immutability.

No entries in Android Binary Transparency logs can be rewritten — even to correct honest mistakes. Index 39 will remain in the log permanently, serving as a "canary in the coal mine" that proves our append-only architecture functions exactly as promised.

39
3a1fbc455a2c9ad4930dd266f44ae7f7009a294ec1ad4dfe5c3e3af591fd60c4
SHA256(APK)
com.google.android.apps.internal.release.buster
496557

Note that this APK was not meant to be released to the public and to the best of our knowledge, was never released to the public.