Is psycopg2 safe to use?

psycopg2 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.9.12). DepScope rates its health at 84/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of psycopg2?

The latest version of psycopg2 is 2.9.12, released 2026-04-20.

Does psycopg2 have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of psycopg2.

Is psycopg2 deprecated?

No, psycopg2 is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.9.12 (2026-04-20).

What are alternatives to psycopg2?

Popular alternatives to psycopg2 in PyPI include: typing-extensions, requests, charset_normalizer, cryptography, aiobotocore.

What license does psycopg2 use?

psycopg2 is licensed under LGPL with exceptions.

psycopg2

pypiv2.9.12

psycopg2 - Python-PostgreSQL Database Adapter

License LGPL with exceptions65 versions1 maintainers0 deps9,586,607 weekly dl

psycopg/psycopg2

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 84/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

4.6/10

weak

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

3

Contributors (12m)

5

Primary author dominance

59%

GitHub stars

3,627

Quality signals

Download trend

stable(0%)

Publish security

API token

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