Is tracing-appender safe to use?

tracing-appender has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.2.5). DepScope rates its health at 82/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of tracing-appender?

The latest version of tracing-appender is 0.2.5, released 2026-04-17.

Does tracing-appender have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of tracing-appender.

Is tracing-appender deprecated?

No, tracing-appender is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.2.5 (2026-04-17).

What are alternatives to tracing-appender?

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

What license does tracing-appender use?

tracing-appender is licensed under MIT.

tracing-appender

cargov0.2.5

Provides utilities for file appenders and making non-blocking writers.

License MITpermissive9 versions0 deps16,969,544 weekly dl

tokio-rs/tracing

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 82/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.1/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

10

Contributors (12m)

51

Primary author dominance

29%

GitHub stars

6,649

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.73critical

Health History

Dependency Tree

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