Is mercurial safe to use?

mercurial has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (7.2.3). DepScope rates its health at 65/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of mercurial?

The latest version of mercurial is 7.2.3, released 2026-06-29.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of mercurial.

No, mercurial is actively maintained. Latest release: 7.2.3 (2026-06-29).

Popular alternatives to mercurial in PyPI include: packaging, urllib3, requests, typing_extensions, charset-normalizer.

mercurial is licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later.

pypiv7.2.3

Fast scalable distributed SCM (revision control, version control) system

License GPL-2.0-or-later274 versions1 deps

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Health

use with caution

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

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Dependencies (1)

API access

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