Is tree-sitter safe to use?

tree-sitter has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.26.8). DepScope rates its health at 90/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of tree-sitter?

The latest version of tree-sitter is 0.26.8, released 2026-03-31.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of tree-sitter.

No, tree-sitter is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.26.8 (2026-03-31).

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

tree-sitter is licensed under MIT.

cargov0.26.8

Rust bindings to the Tree-sitter parsing library

License MITpermissive75 versions0 deps6,508,674 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 90/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

8/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

17

Contributors (12m)

17

Primary author dominance

40%

GitHub stars

24,857

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.70critical

API access

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