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 Please refer our [website](http://swe-bench.github.io) for the public leaderboard and the [change log](https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-bench/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) for information on the latest updates to the SWE-bench benchmark.
 
 ## 📰 News
+* **[Aug. 13, 2024]**: Introducing *SWE-bench Verified*! Part 2 of our collaboration with [OpenAI Preparedness](https://openai.com/preparedness/). A subset of 500 problems that real software engineers have confirmed are solvable. Check out more in the [report](https://openai.com/index/introducing-swe-bench-verified/)!
 * **[Jun. 27, 2024]**: We have an exciting update for SWE-bench - with support from [OpenAI's Preparedness](https://openai.com/preparedness/) team: We're moving to a fully containerized evaluation harness using Docker for more reproducible evaluations! Read more in our [report](https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-bench/blob/main/docs/20240627_docker/README.md).
 * **[Apr. 15, 2024]**: SWE-bench has gone through major improvements to resolve issues with the evaluation harness. Read more in our [report](https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-bench/blob/main/docs/20240415_eval_bug/README.md).
 * **[Apr. 2, 2024]**: We have released [SWE-agent](https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent), which sets the state-of-the-art on the full SWE-bench test set! ([Tweet 🔗](https://twitter.com/jyangballin/status/1775114444370051582))