Is cutadapt safe to use?

cutadapt has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (5.2). DepScope rates its health at 56/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of cutadapt?

The latest version of cutadapt is 5.2, released 2025-10-23.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of cutadapt.

No, cutadapt is actively maintained. Latest release: 5.2 (2025-10-23).

Popular alternatives to cutadapt in PyPI include: charset_normalizer, click, numpy, grpcio-status.

cutadapt is licensed under MIT.

pypiv5.2

Adapter trimming and other preprocessing of high-throughput sequencing reads

License MITpermissive70 versions9 deps8,183 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 56/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

6/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Dependencies (9)

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