Is blosc safe to use?

blosc has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.1.2). DepScope rates its health at 40/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of blosc?

The latest version of blosc is 0.1.2, released 2025-09-26.

Does blosc have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of blosc.

No, blosc is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.1.2 (2025-09-26).

What are alternatives to blosc?

DepScope has no curated alternatives for blosc at this time.

What license does blosc use?

blosc is licensed under GPL (>= 3).

blosc

cranv0.1.2

Compress and Decompress Data Using the 'BLOSC' Library. Arrays of structured data types can require large volumes of disk space to store. 'Blosc' is a library that provides a fast and efficient way to compress such data. It is often applied in storage of n-dimensional arrays, such as in the case of the geo-spatial 'zarr' file format. This package can be

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safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 40/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

3/20

popularity

25/25

security

0/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

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First published · 2025-09-26 23:51:44

Last updated · 2025-09-26T22:10:08+00:00