Is edit-distance safe to use?

edit-distance has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.2.2). DepScope rates its health at 65/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of edit-distance?

The latest version of edit-distance is 2.2.2, released 2025-10-03.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of edit-distance.

No, edit-distance is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.2.2 (2025-10-03).

Popular alternatives to edit-distance in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

edit-distance is licensed under Apache-2.0.

cargov2.2.2

Levenshtein edit distance between strings, a measure for similarity.

License Apache-2.0permissive10 versions0 deps578,792 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 65/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

14/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

1/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

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