tar has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.4.45). DepScope rates its health at 83/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of tar?

The latest version of tar is 0.4.45, released 2026-03-19.

Does tar have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of tar.

No, tar is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.4.45 (2026-03-19).

What are alternatives to tar?

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

What license does tar use?

tar is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

tar

cargov0.4.45

A Rust implementation of a TAR file reader and writer. This library does not currently handle compression, but it is abstract over all I/O readers and writers. Additionally, great lengths are taken to ensure that the entire contents are never required to be entirely resident in memory all at once.

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive80 versions0 deps29,107,249 weekly dl

alexcrichton/tar-rs

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safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 83/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

3/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

7

Contributors (12m)

11

Primary author dominance

38%

GitHub stars

717

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Download trend

stable(0%)

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