Is borsh safe to use?

borsh has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.6.1). DepScope rates its health at 82/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of borsh?

The latest version of borsh is 1.6.1, released 2026-03-18.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of borsh.

No, borsh is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.6.1 (2026-03-18).

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

borsh is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

cargov1.6.1

Binary Object Representation Serializer for Hashing

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive58 versions0 deps27,219,284 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 82/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

7

Primary author dominance

33%

GitHub stars

423

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