Is pylint safe to use?

pylint has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (4.0.8). DepScope rates its health at 65/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of pylint?

The latest version of pylint is 4.0.8, released 2026-08-29.

Does pylint have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of pylint.

Is pylint deprecated?

No, pylint is actively maintained. Latest release: 4.0.8 (2026-08-29).

What are alternatives to pylint?

Popular alternatives to pylint in PyPI include: urllib3, cffi, pydantic-core, pydantic_core, pandas.

What license does pylint use?

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

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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

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.47medium

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pylint

pypiv4.0.8

python code static checker

License GPL-2.0-or-later214 versions13 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

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.47medium

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (13)

astroid colorama dill dill dill isort mccabe platformdirs tomli tomlkit typing-extensions pyenchant~gitpython

API access

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