irb has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.18.0). DepScope rates its health at 82/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of irb?

The latest version of irb is 1.18.0, released 2026-04-22.

Does irb have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of irb.

No, irb is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.18.0 (2026-04-22).

What are alternatives to irb?

Popular alternatives to irb in RubyGems include: jmespath, netrc, thread_safe, tzinfo, websocket-extensions.

irb

rubygemsv1.18.0

Interactive Ruby command-line tool for REPL (Read Eval Print Loop).

License Ruby20 versions4 deps11,767,060 weekly dl

ruby/irb

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 82/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

3/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

7

Contributors (12m)

24

Primary author dominance

29%

GitHub stars

449

Quality signals

Download trend

stable(0%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (4)

pp prism rdoc reline

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/rubygems/irb

irb

rubygemsv1.18.0

Interactive Ruby command-line tool for REPL (Read Eval Print Loop).

License Ruby20 versions4 deps11,767,060 weekly dl

ruby/irb

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 82/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

3/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

7

Contributors (12m)

24

Primary author dominance

29%

GitHub stars

449

Quality signals

Download trend

stable(0%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (4)

pp prism rdoc reline

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/rubygems/irb