Is sphinx safe to use?

sphinx has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (9.1.0). DepScope rates its health at 66/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of sphinx?

The latest version of sphinx is 9.1.0, released 2025-12-31.

Does sphinx have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of sphinx.

Is sphinx deprecated?

No, sphinx is actively maintained. Latest release: 9.1.0 (2025-12-31).

What are alternatives to sphinx?

Popular alternatives to sphinx in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, urllib3, charset_normalizer, certifi.

What license does sphinx use?

sphinx is licensed under BSD-2-Clause.

sphinx

pypiv9.1.0

Python documentation generator

License BSD-2-Clausepermissive241 versions17 deps

sphinx-doc/sphinx

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (66/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (66/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

6/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

4.3/10

weak

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

22

Primary author dominance

55%

GitHub stars

7,780

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

Download trend

stable(0%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (17)

sphinxcontrib-applehelp sphinxcontrib-devhelp sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp sphinxcontrib-jsmath sphinxcontrib-qthelp sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml Jinja2 Pygments docutils snowballstemmer babel alabaster imagesize requests roman-numerals packaging colorama

API access

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