Is cargo-sweep safe to use?

cargo-sweep has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.8.0). DepScope rates its health at 59/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of cargo-sweep?

The latest version of cargo-sweep is 0.8.0, released 2025-10-11.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of cargo-sweep.

No, cargo-sweep is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.8.0 (2025-10-11).

Popular alternatives to cargo-sweep in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn, rand_core.

cargo-sweep is licensed under MIT.

cargov0.8.0

A tool for cleaning unused build files created by Cargo

License MITpermissive11 versions0 deps44,049 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 59/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

API access

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