Is hickory-resolver safe to use?

hickory-resolver has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.26.0). DepScope rates its health at 79/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of hickory-resolver?

The latest version of hickory-resolver is 0.26.0, released 2026-04-16.

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

No, hickory-resolver is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.26.0 (2026-04-16).

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

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

cargov0.26.0

hickory-resolver is a safe and secure DNS stub resolver library intended to be a high-level library for DNS record resolution.

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive20 versions0 deps13,905,171 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 79/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

8

Contributors (12m)

8

Primary author dominance

66%

GitHub stars

5,160

recent ownership change suspected

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.60high

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