Is utf-8 safe to use?

utf-8 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.7.6). DepScope rates its health at 60/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of utf-8?

The latest version of utf-8 is 0.7.6, released 2021-04-16.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of utf-8.

No, utf-8 is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.7.6 (2021-04-16).

Popular alternatives to utf-8 in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

utf-8 is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

cargov0.7.6

Incremental, zero-copy UTF-8 decoding with error handling

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive13 versions0 deps41,348,909 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 60/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

0/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

2.0/10

poor

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

0

Primary author dominance

0%

GitHub stars

25

single active maintainer 3marchived repo

API access

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