Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 237.9m
- +68% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 6 years ago
- v5.2.1
- GitHub stars
- 345
- 47 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 6 / 10
- Contributors
- 8
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
237,924,258 downloads last week, 1,128,813,811 in the last month. The 12-month change of +68% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 011 in total
- Latest version
- 5.2.1, 10 May 20206 years ago
- First published
- 13 Jan 2016
- Last push to GitHub
- 3 Jun 20231,209 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 6
- Open pull requests
- 10
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
- Dependents on npm
- 4,110
Major versions
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 30 May 2016
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 30 May 2016
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 19 Jan 2016
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 17 Jan 2016
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 13 Jan 2016
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 5.2.1 | 10 May 2020 |
| 5.2.0 | 5 Jul 2019 |
| 5.1.2 | 25 Apr 2018 |
| 5.1.1 | 21 Jun 2017 |
| 5.1.0 | 2 Jun 2017 |
| 5.0.1 | 30 May 2016 |
| 5.0.0 | 30 May 2016 |
| 4.0.0 | 30 May 2016 |
| 3.0.0 | 19 Jan 2016 |
| 2.0.0 | 17 Jan 2016 |
| 1.0.0 | 13 Jan 2016 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 31 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install safe-bufferCDN
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- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/safe-buffer@5.2.1/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/safe-buffer@5.2.1/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/safe-buffer@5.2.1
Indexability: Indexed.