Is thiserror safe to use?

thiserror has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.0.18). DepScope rates its health at 85/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of thiserror?

The latest version of thiserror is 2.0.18, released 2026-01-18.

Does thiserror have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of thiserror.

Is thiserror deprecated?

No, thiserror is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.0.18 (2026-01-18).

What are alternatives to thiserror?

Popular alternatives to thiserror in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn, rand_core.

What license does thiserror use?

thiserror is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

thiserror

cargov2.0.18

derive(Error)

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive89 versions0 deps250,644,536 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

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

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

4.6/10

weak

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

3

Primary author dominance

96%

GitHub stars

5,412

single active maintainer 3msingle author dominance

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+3%)

Health History

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