Is wheel safe to use?

wheel has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.47.0). DepScope rates its health at 85/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of wheel?

The latest version of wheel is 0.47.0, released 2026-04-22.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of wheel.

No, wheel is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.47.0 (2026-04-22).

Popular alternatives to wheel in PyPI include: boto3, boto3/, packaging, urllib3/, certifi.

pypiv0.47.0

Command line tool for manipulating wheel files

License MITpermissive83 versions1 deps127,412,564 weekly dl

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 85/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

5.4/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

6

Contributors (12m)

7

Primary author dominance

50%

GitHub stars

556

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.53high

Dependencies (1)

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/wheel