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winreg

v0.56.0 Growing

Rust bindings to MS Windows Registry API

MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.60

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 72d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (4.7K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
170.5M
Dependents
4.7K
Releases
35
Size
33KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

12.1M downloads in the last 30 days (402.4K/day), up 24% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

4.7K crates depend on winreg. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

winreg has only 1 owner despite 4.7K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 11+ years old, winreg hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 32KB, winreg is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include ureq, gix-path, embed-resource, portable-pty, headless_chrome. When high-quality crates choose winreg, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 14/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
343K/day avg+33%
0100K200K300K400K500K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.52.0
63%
v0.55.0
31%
v0.51.0
4%
v0.56.0
2%
v0.53.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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Maintainers

Dependencies
10
direct dependencies
Dependents
4.7K
crates depend on winreg

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