imagequant
v4.4.1 GrowingConvert 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.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Stable API (4.x for 11+ years)
- ✓Trusted by 296 crates
- !67% of releases were yanked
Security
Deep Insights
57.5K downloads in the last 30 days (1.9K/day), up 18% from the previous period.
296 crates depend on imagequant. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
The primary maintainer publishes 132 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
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.
67% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include gifski, quantette, dioxus-cli, imagequant-sys, dioxus-cli-opt. When high-quality crates choose imagequant, it's a strong quality signal.
Health Breakdown
Recency, release consistency, active ratio
Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features
Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem
Downloads, momentum, growth trend
Docs, repo, license, metadata
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Most downloaded crates that depend on imagequant
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Feature Flags
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