ring
v0.17.14 GrowingAn experiment.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 1+ year
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (20.7K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0 AND ISC)
- !49% of releases were yanked
Security
Deep Insights
49.8M downloads in the last 30 days (1.7M/day), up 31% from the previous period.
20.7K crates depend on ring — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
ring has only 1 owner despite 20.7K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.
Despite being 9+ years old, ring hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
49% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include rustls, rustls-webpki, rustls-native-certs, sct, quinn-proto. When high-quality crates choose ring, 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
Download Trend
Top Dependents
Most downloaded crates that depend on ring
Version Adoption
Release Timeline
Feature Flags
default =["alloc", "dev_urandom_fallback"]
