Is pygments safe to use?

pygments has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.20.0). DepScope rates its health at 70/100 (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, idna, certifi, urllib3.

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

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 70/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

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

API access

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

pygments

pypiv2.20.0

Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.

License BSD-2-Clausepermissive68 versions1 deps

pygments/pygments

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 70/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

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

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

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