Is serde safe to use?

serde has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.0.228). DepScope rates its health at 77/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of serde?

The latest version of serde is 1.0.228, released 2025-09-27.

Does serde have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of serde.

No, serde is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.0.228 (2025-09-27).

What are alternatives to serde?

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

What license does serde use?

serde is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

serde

cargov1.0.228

A generic serialization/deserialization framework

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive315 versions0 deps162,596,691 weekly dl

serde-rs/serde

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 77/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

7/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

5.7/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

3

Contributors (12m)

7

Primary author dominance

57%

GitHub stars

10,563

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+4%)

Health History

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