Is flake8 safe to use?

flake8 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (7.3.0). DepScope rates its health at 62/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of flake8?

The latest version of flake8 is 7.3.0, released 2025-06-20.

Does flake8 have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of flake8.

Is flake8 deprecated?

No, flake8 is actively maintained. Latest release: 7.3.0 (2025-06-20).

What are alternatives to flake8?

Popular alternatives to flake8 in PyPI include: urllib3, cryptography, cffi, click, pydantic-core.

flake8

pypiv7.3.0

the modular source code checker: pep8 pyflakes and co

License MITpermissive94 versions1 maintainers3 deps

pycqa/flake8

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (62/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (62/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

7/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.77critical

Download trend

stable(0%)

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Dependencies (3)

mccabe pycodestyle pyflakes

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