Is diffoscope safe to use?

diffoscope has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (329). DepScope rates its health at 67/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of diffoscope?

The latest version of diffoscope is 329, released 2026-08-21.

Does diffoscope have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of diffoscope.

Is diffoscope deprecated?

No, diffoscope is actively maintained. Latest release: 329 (2026-08-21).

What are alternatives to diffoscope?

Popular alternatives to diffoscope in PyPI include: boto3, requests, typing-extensions, typing_extensions, pygments.

What license does diffoscope use?

diffoscope is licensed under GPL-3+.

diffoscope

pypiv329

in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories

License GPL-3+279 versions1 maintainers15 deps

/ 100

Health

use with caution

diffoscope@329 low health (67/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (67/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (15)

python-magic libarchive-c distro;argcomplete;progressbar;androguard;binwalk;defusedxml;guestfs;jsondiff;pypdf;python-debian;pyxattr;rpm-python;tlsh;

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/diffoscope

diffoscope

pypiv329

in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories

License GPL-3+279 versions1 maintainers15 deps

/ 100

Health

use with caution

diffoscope@329 low health (67/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (67/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (15)

python-magic libarchive-c distro;argcomplete;progressbar;androguard;binwalk;defusedxml;guestfs;jsondiff;pypdf;python-debian;pyxattr;rpm-python;tlsh;

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/diffoscope