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rustls-native-certs

v0.8.3 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

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (5.7K 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
389.1M
Dependents
5.7K
Releases
22
Size
30KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

39.8M downloads in the last 30 days (1.3M/day), up 28% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

5.7K 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 30KB, 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 12/25

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+37%
0500K1.0M1.5M2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.8.1
34%
v0.7.3
23%
v0.8.3
23%
v0.7.0
12%
v0.8.0
9%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
12
direct dependencies
Dependents
5.7K
crates depend on rustls-native-certs