Is background-jobs safe to use?

background-jobs has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.20.0). DepScope rates its health at 58/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of background-jobs?

The latest version of background-jobs is 0.20.0, released 2026-01-13.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of background-jobs.

No, background-jobs is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.20.0 (2026-01-13).

Popular alternatives to background-jobs in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

background-jobs is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

cargov0.20.0

asynchronous background jobs implemented with pluggable backends and runtimes

License AGPL-3.0network copyleft29 versions0 deps3,295 weekly dl

58

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 58/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

6/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

0

none known

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