ttf-parser in unmaintained
Author: Mec-iSCreated Aug 14, 2026Updated Aug 14, 2026
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Is this issue related to iced?
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What happened?
According to the advisories in cargo-deny, when running cargo deny:
error[unmaintained]: `ttf-parser` is unmaintained
┌─ /github/workspace/Cargo.lock:433:1
│
433 │ ttf-parser 0.25.1 registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
│ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ unmaintained advisory detected
│
├ ID: RUSTSEC-2026-0192
├ Advisory: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0192
├ The author of `ttf-parser` has stated that the crate is unmaintained and will not receive further fixes (see the referenced issue).
## Alternative(s)
- [`skrifa`](https://crates.io/crates/skrifa), an actively maintained TrueType and OpenType font parsing crate, part of the Google Fonts "oxidize" (`fontations`) project.
├ Announcement: https://github.com/harfbuzz/ttf-parser/issues/217
├ Solution: No safe upgrade is available!
├ ttf-parser v0.25.1What is the expected behavior?
should use maintained alternative
Version
master
Operating System
macOS
Do you have any log output?
Source: iced-rs/iced