Is winreg safe to use?

winreg has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.56.0). DepScope rates its health at 82/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of winreg?

The latest version of winreg is 0.56.0, released 2026-03-14.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of winreg.

No, winreg is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.56.0 (2026-03-14).

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

cargov0.56.0

Rust bindings to MS Windows Registry API

License MITpermissive35 versions0 deps26,227,527 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

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

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

1

Primary author dominance

100%

GitHub stars

189

single active maintainer 3msingle author dominance

API access

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