Is hickory-client safe to use?

hickory-client has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.26.0-alpha.1). DepScope rates its health at 58/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of hickory-client?

The latest version of hickory-client is 0.26.0-alpha.1, released 2025-06-03.

Does hickory-client have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of hickory-client.

Is hickory-client deprecated?

No, hickory-client is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.26.0-alpha.1 (2025-06-03).

What are alternatives to hickory-client?

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

What license does hickory-client use?

hickory-client is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

hickory-client

cargov0.26.0-alpha.1

Hickory DNS is a safe and secure DNS library. This is the Client library with DNSSEC support. DNSSEC with NSEC validation for negative records, is complete. The client supports dynamic DNS with SIG0 authenticated requests, implementing easy to use high level functions. Hickory DNS is based on the Tokio and Futures libraries, which means it should be easily integrated into other software that also use those libraries.

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive14 versions0 deps276,768 weekly dl

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safe to use

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

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

14/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

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