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RUSTSEC-2025-0007: *ring* is unmaintained

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
security

Research direction

Start with the linked RustSec advisory and the referenced ring discussion to understand the unmaintained dependency status. No repository file, test, replacement, or acceptance condition is named, so the work is not complete until maintainers define the affected dependency path and the desired remediation.

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Description

ring is unmaintained

Details
Status unmaintained
Package ring
Version 0.17.8
URL https://github.com/briansmith/ring/discussions/2414
Date 2025-02-20

The author has announced an indefinite hiatus in its development, noting that
any reported security vulnerabilities may go unaddressed for prolonged periods
of time.

See advisory page for additional details.

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
167
Forks
19
Avg merge
1d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
9

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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