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v0.18.1 Growing

PNG decoding and encoding library in pure Rust

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.73

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 41d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (5.1K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (3 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
115.7M
Dependents
5.1K
Releases
61
Size
126KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

10.8M downloads in the last 30 days (359.4K/day), up 28% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

5.1K crates depend on png. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 50 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 10+ years old, png hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include image, gif, jpeg-decoder, qoi, image-webp. When high-quality crates choose png, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 16/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 17/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
273K/day avg+86%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.17.16
42%
v0.17.13
19%
v0.16.8
15%
v0.18.0
14%
v0.17.8
10%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
12
direct dependencies
Dependents
5.1K
crates depend on png