Is mercurial safe to use?

mercurial has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (7.2.2). DepScope rates its health at 65/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of mercurial?

The latest version of mercurial is 7.2.2, released 2026-05-07.

Does mercurial have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of mercurial.

Is mercurial deprecated?

No, mercurial is actively maintained. Latest release: 7.2.2 (2026-05-07).

What are alternatives to mercurial?

Popular alternatives to mercurial in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, certifi, urllib3, idna.

What license does mercurial use?

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

mercurial

pypiv7.2.2

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

License GPL-2.0-or-later273 versions1 deps

/ 100

Health

use with caution

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

Moderate health score (65/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

zstandard;

API access

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mercurial

pypiv7.2.2

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

License GPL-2.0-or-later273 versions1 deps

/ 100

Health

use with caution

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

Moderate health score (65/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

zstandard;

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

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