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imagequant

v4.4.1 Growing

Convert 24/32-bit images to 8-bit palette with alpha channel. For lossy PNG compression and high-quality GIF images Dual-licensed like pngquant. See https://pngquant.org for details.

GPL-3.0-or-later Edition 2021 MSRV 1.65
Multimedia::Images #compression#quantization#palette#pngquant#gif

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Stable API (4.x for 11+ years)
  • โœ“Trusted by 253 crates
  • !67% of releases were yanked

Security

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Downloads
972.2K
Dependents
253
Releases
57
Size
57KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

72.0K downloads in the last 30 days (2.4K/day), up 35% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

253 crates depend on imagequant. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 132 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Stable for 11+ years

The API has been stable (1.x) for over 11 years with 57 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.

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Notable yanked versions

67% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include gifski, dioxus-cli, imagequant-sys, quantette, dioxus-cli-opt. When high-quality crates choose imagequant, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 9/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
2K/day avg+61%
1K2K3K4K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v4.4.1
37%
v4.3.4
36%
v4.3.3
15%
v4.3.0
7%
v4.0.0
5%

Release Timeline

57 releases38 yankedsince 2015
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2022
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Feature Flags

default =["threads"]

threads*large_palettes_internal_c_ffi

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
6
direct dependencies
Dependents
253
crates depend on imagequant

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