Is dotenv healthy, maintained, and safe?
Yes — dotenv looks healthy, actively maintained, and free of known advisories today.
The verdict
dotenv earns a health score of 95/100, a minimal risk rating, computed deterministically from live npm release history, maintainer data, and the OSV vulnerability database. Yes — dotenv looks healthy, actively maintained, and free of known advisories today.
The last release was 12 April 2026 (106 days ago); still within a normal window, but the cadence has quietened. Across 104 releases the cadence has been steady, which is a good sign of an ongoing maintenance rhythm. 3 maintainers are listed on npm, so the project isn't hostage to any single contributor.
On the security side, OSV has no advisories on record for dotenv today. That's reassuring, but "no known advisory" is not the same as "no vulnerability" — it only means nothing has been disclosed and indexed yet.
The signals are green today, but a clean snapshot is not a standing guarantee — packages drift. 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.
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Key facts
- Latest version
- v17.4.2
- Last release
- 12 April 2026 (106 days ago)
- Total releases
- 104
- First release
- 5 July 2013
- Package age
- 13.1 years
- Maintainers
- 3
- Known advisories
- 0
- Confidence
- High
Frequently asked
Is dotenv still maintained?
Partly — the most recent release was 12 April 2026 (106 days ago), so maintenance has slowed but not fully stopped.
Does dotenv have known security vulnerabilities?
No advisories are currently recorded for dotenv in the OSV database. That means none have been publicly disclosed and indexed — it is not a guarantee of safety.
Is dotenv safe to use?
Yes — dotenv looks healthy, actively maintained, and free of known advisories today. OSPulse rates it 95/100 (minimal 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.