qsv is designed to be secure by default. It is built with security in mind, and it is continuously tested for security vulnerabilities.

It uses a lot of third-party libraries, all of which are inspected for security vulnerabilities with cargo-audit. The libraries are updated regularly to ensure that the latest security patches are applied.

qsv allows unwrap,expect and unsafe in the codebase for performance reasons, but they are always accompanied by a neighboring // safety: comment with the justification (typically, to skip redundant bounds checking in performance-sensitive, "hot" loops).

qsv has a very rapid release tempo, with several releases/month.
It has a built-in self-update engine that makes it very convenient to upgrade to the latest version.

If you've found a vulnerability, please create an issue in GitHub.

However, if a vulnerability is severe and could lead to zero-day exploits, please send an email to [email protected] instead.

The vulnerability report will be addressed within one business day. A mitigation/workaround, if available, will be included in the next release and mentioned in the changelog, with zero-day mitigations only being mentioned only when it's been fully fixed.