Is Pygments safe to use?

Pygments has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.20.0). DepScope rates its health at 65/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of Pygments?

The latest version of Pygments is 2.20.0, released 2026-03-29.

Does Pygments have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of Pygments.

Is Pygments deprecated?

No, Pygments is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.20.0 (2026-03-29).

What are alternatives to Pygments?

Popular alternatives to Pygments in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, certifi, urllib3, requests.

What license does Pygments use?

Pygments is licensed under BSD-2-Clause.

Pygments

pypiv2.20.0

Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.

License BSD-2-Clausepermissive68 versions1 deps

pygments/pygments

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (65/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (65/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.1/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

40

Contributors (12m)

46

Primary author dominance

32%

GitHub stars

2,149

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.53high

Download trend

stable(0%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

colorama

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