Is rdkafka safe to use?

rdkafka has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.39.0). DepScope rates its health at 72/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of rdkafka?

The latest version of rdkafka is 0.39.0, released 2026-01-25.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of rdkafka.

No, rdkafka is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.39.0 (2026-01-25).

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

cargov0.39.0

Rust wrapper for librdkafka

License MITpermissive52 versions0 deps5,154,357 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 72/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

0

Primary author dominance

0%

GitHub stars

1,961

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.69high

API access

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