Is black safe to use?

black has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (26.5.1). DepScope rates its health at 68/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of black?

The latest version of black is 26.5.1, released 2026-05-18.

Does black have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of black.

No, black is actively maintained. Latest release: 26.5.1 (2026-05-18).

What are alternatives to black?

Popular alternatives to black in PyPI include: certifi, requests, charset_normalizer, cryptography, python-dateutil.

black

pypiv26.5.1

The uncompromising code formatter.

License MITpermissive73 versions14 deps

psf/black

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (68/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (68/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

8/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

32

Contributors (12m)

37

Primary author dominance

29%

GitHub stars

41,477

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

rapid growth(+63.7%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (14)

click mypy-extensions packaging pathspec platformdirs pytokens~tomli typing-extensions colorama aiohttp ipython tokenize-rt uvloop winloop

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