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rustls

v0.23.40 Growing

Rustls is a modern TLS library written in Rust.

Apache-2.0 OR ISC OR MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.71

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 27d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (37.4K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (3 owners)
  • !Heavy dependency tree (26 direct deps)

Security

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Downloads
667.3M
Dependents
37.4K
Releases
110
Size
374KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

60.4M downloads in the last 30 days (2.0M/day), up 28% from the previous period.

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Foundational crate

37.4K crates depend on rustls โ€” it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 9+ years old, rustls hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

26 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include tokio-rustls, webpki-roots, reqwest, hyper-rustls, rustls-native-certs. When high-quality crates choose rustls, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 18/20

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
1.7M/day avg+33%
01.0M2.0M2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.23.37
30%
v0.23.36
27%
v0.23.35
23%
v0.23.32
11%
v0.23.40
9%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["aws_lc_rs", "logging", "prefer-post-quantum", "std", "tls12"]

std*fipsringzlibtls12*brotlilogging*read_bufaws-lc-rsaws_lc_rs*custom-providerprefer-post-quantum*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
26
direct dependencies
Dependents
37.4K
crates depend on rustls