diff --git a/.githooks/pre-commit b/.githooks/pre-commit
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/.githooks/pre-push b/.githooks/pre-push
index 2f08a7f..09ecefa 100755
--- a/.githooks/pre-push
+++ b/.githooks/pre-push
@@ -7,10 +7,19 @@ cd "$repo_root"
 cargo fmt --check
 cargo check
 cargo test
-./scripts/generate-sbom.sh spdx
 
+# SBOM freshness is advisory, not a hard gate: the SBOM is not checked in CI or
+# at release time, and `cargo sbom` output varies between tool versions (e.g. the
+# set of per-target dependencies it enumerates), so a byte-exact diff would fail
+# spuriously for anyone whose cargo-sbom differs from whoever last committed it.
+# Warn (and restore the working tree) instead of blocking the push.
+./scripts/generate-sbom.sh spdx
 if ! git diff --quiet -- sbom/rusty-wire.spdx.json; then
-  echo "error: sbom/rusty-wire.spdx.json was updated. Commit the refreshed SPDX SBOM before pushing." >&2
-  git --no-pager diff -- sbom/rusty-wire.spdx.json >&2 || true
-  exit 1
+  echo "warning: the regenerated SPDX SBOM differs from the committed one." >&2
+  echo "         If this reflects a real dependency change (Cargo.lock), run" >&2
+  echo "         'make sbom' with the pinned cargo-sbom version and commit the" >&2
+  echo "         refreshed sbom/ files. If it is only a cargo-sbom version" >&2
+  echo "         difference, no action is needed. (Not blocking the push.)" >&2
+  # Don't leave the developer's tree dirty with the regenerated file.
+  git checkout -- sbom/rusty-wire.spdx.json 2>/dev/null || true
 fi
diff --git a/scripts/generate-sbom.sh b/scripts/generate-sbom.sh
index de80292..776ed4c 100755
--- a/scripts/generate-sbom.sh
+++ b/scripts/generate-sbom.sh
@@ -9,12 +9,24 @@ fi
 format="${1:-spdx}"
 out_file="${2:-}"
 
+# Pin the cargo-sbom version so the committed SBOM is reproducible. Different
+# cargo-sbom releases enumerate different per-target dependency sets, which would
+# otherwise make the SBOM churn between contributors' machines.
+PINNED_SBOM_VERSION="0.10.0"
+
 if ! cargo --list | grep -q '^    sbom'; then
   echo "error: cargo-sbom is not installed." >&2
-  echo "install it with: cargo install cargo-sbom" >&2
+  echo "install the pinned version with: cargo install cargo-sbom --version $PINNED_SBOM_VERSION --locked" >&2
   exit 1
 fi
 
+installed_sbom_version="$(cargo sbom --version 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR==1{print $NF}')"
+if [[ -n "$installed_sbom_version" && "$installed_sbom_version" != "$PINNED_SBOM_VERSION" ]]; then
+  echo "warning: cargo-sbom $installed_sbom_version differs from the pinned $PINNED_SBOM_VERSION;" >&2
+  echo "         the generated SBOM may differ from the committed one. To match, run:" >&2
+  echo "         cargo install cargo-sbom --version $PINNED_SBOM_VERSION --locked" >&2
+fi
+
 case "$format" in
   spdx)
     jsonq=""