Is babel safe to use?

babel has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.18.0). DepScope rates its health at 64/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of babel?

The latest version of babel is 2.18.0, released 2026-02-01.

Does babel have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of babel.

No, babel is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.18.0 (2026-02-01).

What are alternatives to babel?

Popular alternatives to babel in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, urllib3, certifi, idna.

What license does babel use?

babel is licensed under BSD-3-Clause.

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (64/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (64/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

7/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

7.4/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

4

Contributors (12m)

8

Primary author dominance

71%

GitHub stars

1,439

Quality signals

Download trend

stable(+4.4%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (9)

pytz tzdata;backports.zoneinfo;freezegun~jinja2 pytest-cov;pytest pytz;setuptools;

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