Is tar-stream safe to use?

tar-stream has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (3.2.0). DepScope rates its health at 86/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of tar-stream?

The latest version of tar-stream is 3.2.0, released 2026-04-29.

Does tar-stream have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of tar-stream.

Is tar-stream deprecated?

No, tar-stream is actively maintained. Latest release: 3.2.0 (2026-04-29).

What are alternatives to tar-stream?

Popular alternatives to tar-stream in npm include: ?, semver, minimatch, debug, brace-expansion.

What license does tar-stream use?

tar-stream is licensed under MIT.

tar-stream

npmv3.2.0

tar-stream is a streaming tar parser and generator and nothing else. It operates purely using streams which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system.

License MITpermissive66 versions2 maintainers4 deps79,978,750 weekly dl

mafintosh/tar-stream

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 86/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

6/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

📦

Bundle Size

43.3 KBminified

12.4 KB gzipped

4 direct dependencies

side effects

🌟

TypeScript

7/10typed

Types from @types/tar-stream (DefinitelyTyped)

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

Contributors (12m)

GitHub stars

0

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.79critical

Download trend

stable(+3%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (4)

b4a bare-fs fast-fifo streamx

API access

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