A cargo subcommand for displaying when Rust dependencies are out of date
cargo-outdated is for displaying when dependencies have newer versions available.
The functionality of cargo-outdated largely depends on the cargo builtin command cargo update.
To retrieve the list of available SemVer compatible dependencies, cargo-outdated firstly creates a temporary workspace, then executes cargo update against it, finally compares the temporary dependency tree with the original one.
Similarly, to check the latest dependencies, cargo-outdated replaces the SemVer requirements of direct dependencies with wildcards then goes through the same process.
Once installed (see below) running cargo outdated in a project directory looks like the following:
$ cargo outdated
Name Project Compat Latest Kind Platform
---- ------- ------ ------ ---- --------
clap 2.20.0 2.20.5 2.26.0 Normal ---
clap->bitflags 0.7.0 --- 0.9.1 Normal ---
clap->libc 0.2.18 0.2.29 Removed Normal ---
clap->term_size 0.2.1 0.2.3 0.3.0 Normal ---
clap->vec_map 0.6.0 --- 0.8.0 Normal ---
num_cpus 1.6.0 --- 1.6.2 Development ---
num_cpus->libc 0.2.18 0.2.29 0.2.29 Normal ---
pkg-config 0.3.8 0.3.9 0.3.9 Build ---
term 0.4.5 --- 0.4.6 Normal ---
term_size->libc 0.2.18 0.2.29 0.2.29 Normal cfg(not(target_os = "windows"))
The latest version of cargo-outdated can be installed or updated with cargo install:
cargo install --locked cargo-outdatedor
cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/kbknapp/cargo-outdatedFollow these instructions to compile cargo-outdated, then skip down to Installation.
- Ensure you have current version of
cargoand Rust installed - Clone the project
$ git clone https://github.com/kbknapp/cargo-outdated && cd cargo-outdated - Build the project
$ cargo build --release - Once complete, the binary will be located at
target/release/cargo-outdated
All you need to do is place cargo-outdated somewhere in your $PATH. Then run cargo outdated anywhere in your project directory. For full details see below.
You have two options, place cargo-outdated into a directory that is already located in your $PATH variable (To see which directories those are, open a terminal and type echo "${PATH//:/\n}", the quotation marks are important), or you can add a custom directory to your $PATH
Option 1
If you have write permission to a directory listed in your $PATH or you have root permission (or via sudo), simply copy the cargo-outdated to that directory # sudo cp cargo-outdated /usr/local/bin
Option 2
If you do not have root, sudo, or write permission to any directory already in $PATH you can create a directory inside your home directory, and add that. Many people use $HOME/.bin to keep it hidden (and not clutter your home directory), or $HOME/bin if you want it to be always visible. Here is an example to make the directory, add it to $PATH, and copy cargo-outdated there.
Simply change bin to whatever you'd like to name the directory, and .bashrc to whatever your shell startup file is (usually .bashrc, .bash_profile, or .zshrc)
mkdir ~/bin
echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
cp cargo-outdated ~/bin
source ~/.bashrcThis library depends on OpenSSL. On MacOS a newer version of OpenSSL than is installed by default is needed. This can be installed with Homebrew via brew install openssl or openssl can be vendored in with --features vendored-openssl. Learn more about building OpenSSL here,
On Windows 7/8 you can add directory to the PATH variable by opening a command line as an administrator and running
setx path "%path%;C:\path\to\cargo-outdated\binary"Otherwise, ensure you have the cargo-outdated binary in the directory which you operating in the command line from, because Windows automatically adds your current directory to PATH (i.e. if you open a command line to C:\my_project\ to use cargo-outdated ensure cargo-outdated.exe is inside that directory as well).
There are a few options for using cargo-outdated which should be somewhat self explanatory.
Displays information about project dependency versions
USAGE:
cargo outdated [options]
Options:
-a, --aggressive Ignores channels for latest updates
-h, --help Prints help information
--format FORMAT Output formatting [default: list]
[values: list, json]
-i, --ignore DEPENDENCIES Comma separated list of dependencies to not print in the output
-x, --exclude DEPENDENCIES Comma separated list of dependencies to exclude from building
-q, --quiet Suppresses warnings
-R, --root-deps-only Only check root dependencies (Equivalent to --depth=1)
-V, --version Prints version information
-v, --verbose ... Use verbose output
-w, --workspace Checks updates for all workspace members rather than
only the root package
--color COLOR Coloring: auto, always, never [default: auto]
[values: auto, always, never]
-d, --depth NUM How deep in the dependency chain to search
(Defaults to all dependencies when omitted)
--exit-code NUM The exit code to return on new versions found [default: 0]
--features FEATURES Space-separated list of features
-m, --manifest-path FILE Path to the Cargo.toml file to use
(Defaults to Cargo.toml in project root)
-p, --packages PKGS Packages to inspect for updates
-r, --root ROOT Package to treat as the root package
cargo-outdated is released under the terms of either the MIT or Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE-MIT or LICENSE-APACHE file for the details.