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rustls-native-certs

v0.8.4 Growing

rustls-native-certs allows rustls to use the platform native certificate store

Apache-2.0 OR ISC OR MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.71

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 42d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (6.6K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (3 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0 OR ISC OR MIT)

Security

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Downloads
449.7M
Dependents
6.6K
Releases
23
Size
22KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

35.3M downloads in the last 30 days (1.2M/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Widely adopted

6.6K crates depend on rustls-native-certs. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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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 6+ years old, rustls-native-certs hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 22KB, rustls-native-certs is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include hyper-rustls, tonic, tungstenite, tokio-tungstenite, sqlx-core. When high-quality crates choose rustls-native-certs, 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 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
1.1M/day avg-53%
0500K1.0M1.5M4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.8.1
31%
v0.8.3
29%
v0.7.3
22%
v0.7.0
10%
v0.8.2
8%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
12
direct dependencies
Dependents
6.6K
crates depend on rustls-native-certs