Is cheerio healthy, maintained, and safe?
Mostly yes — cheerio is maintained, with a couple of watch-items rather than red flags.
The verdict
OSPulse scores cheerio at 65/100 (low risk), computed deterministically from live npm release history, maintainer data, and the OSV vulnerability database. Mostly yes — cheerio is maintained, with a couple of watch-items rather than red flags.
The newest release dates to 23 January 2026, 185 days back — a gap long enough to suggest the pace is slowing. Historically it released far more frequently, so the current silence reads as a genuine collapse in velocity rather than a natural gap. Two maintainers are listed; better than a lone author, but still a thin bench if one steps away.
Security-wise, cheerio currently has a clean OSV record — no published advisories. Keep in mind that reflects what's been disclosed, not a guarantee of safety.
A couple of watch-items aside, cheerio is a reasonable dependency to rely on; keep an eye on the flagged signals. This is a one-time snapshot of a single package — real projects depend on dozens or hundreds of packages, and any one of them can drift or be compromised between releases. Run your own package.json through the free health check, or have OSPulse monitor your whole dependency tree continuously.
Evidence trail — deterministic, auditable
Key facts
- Latest version
- v1.2.0
- Last release
- 23 January 2026 (185 days ago)
- Total releases
- 75
- First release
- 8 October 2011
- Package age
- 14.8 years
- Maintainers
- 2
- Known advisories
- 0
- Confidence
- High
Frequently asked
Is cheerio still maintained?
Partly — the most recent release was 23 January 2026 (185 days ago), so maintenance has slowed but not fully stopped.
Does cheerio have known security vulnerabilities?
No advisories are currently recorded for cheerio in the OSV database. That means none have been publicly disclosed and indexed — it is not a guarantee of safety.
Is cheerio safe to use?
Mostly yes — cheerio is maintained, with a couple of watch-items rather than red flags. OSPulse rates it 65/100 (low risk) based on release recency, cadence, maintainer bus factor and known vulnerabilities.
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Data from the npm registry & OSV.dev · snapshot generated 2026-07-27 · scores are deterministic and recomputed on each refresh.