Is kramdown safe to use?

kramdown has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.5.2). DepScope rates its health at 66/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of kramdown?

The latest version of kramdown is 2.5.2, released 2026-01-19.

Does kramdown have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of kramdown.

Is kramdown deprecated?

No, kramdown is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.5.2 (2026-01-19).

What are alternatives to kramdown?

Popular alternatives to kramdown in RubyGems include: jmespath, netrc, thread_safe, crass, tzinfo.

What license does kramdown use?

kramdown is licensed under MIT.

kramdown

rubygemsv2.5.2

kramdown is yet-another-markdown-parser but fast, pure Ruby, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

License MITpermissive20 versions1 deps4,886,229 weekly dl

http://github.com/gettalong/kramdown

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 66/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

1

Primary author dominance

100%

GitHub stars

1,757

single active maintainer 3msingle author dominance

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.44medium

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

rexml

API access

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