diff --git a/.changelog/_unreleased.toml b/.changelog/_unreleased.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0050f85b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/_unreleased.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[[entries]]
+id = "bf3a15ca-a70d-442e-a8bc-2092c71ac08b"
+type = "fix"
+description = "strip trailing whitespaces from gitignore.io responses"
+author = "@tomkarw"
+issues = [
+    "https://github.com/tomkarw/kraken/issues/81",
+]
diff --git a/kraken-build/src/kraken/std/git/gitignore/gitignore_io.py b/kraken-build/src/kraken/std/git/gitignore/gitignore_io.py
index e5c98462..cc0cca9d 100644
--- a/kraken-build/src/kraken/std/git/gitignore/gitignore_io.py
+++ b/kraken-build/src/kraken/std/git/gitignore/gitignore_io.py
@@ -61,7 +61,12 @@ def gitignore_io_fetch(tokens: Sequence[str]) -> str:
     url = GITIGNORE_API_URL + ",".join(tokens)
     response = http.get(url)
     response.raise_for_status()
-    return response.text.replace("\r\n", "\n")
+    lines = response.text.replace("\r\n", "\n").split("\n")
+    # gitignore.io sometimes returns files with trailing whitespaces at the end of lines
+    # this causes issues when editors remove the whitespaces on formatting, causing autogenerated
+    # parts of .gitignore file to change and fail kraken check
+    lines = [line.rstrip() for line in lines]
+    return "\n".join(lines)
 
 
 def gitignore_io_fetch_cached(tokens: Sequence[str], backfill: bool) -> str: