caps

A pure-Rust library to work with Linux capabilities

0.5.6 22M downloads/mo #1972 most downloaded on crates.io lucab/caps-rs

What this package is like to depend on

Last release 10 months ago

17 Oct 2025

Ships unpredictably

gaps range from 4 weeks to 3.0 years

Some releases are documented

notes for 8 of 17 stable releases

Nothing withdrawn

no release was ever pulled

10 years old

19 releases · first in 2017

1 release in the last 12 months

see the full history below

Release timeline

19 releases · Feb 2017 to Oct 2025

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

Release Pre-release

Releases

latest 19

0.5.6 17 Oct 2025
Release notes
Changes:
- Update minimum toolchain to 1.63
- Remove thiserror dependency
- Gracefully handle unsupported capabilities in clear and read operations
Open source →
0.5.5 02 Nov 2022
Release notes
Changes:
- Add CAPGET and CAPSET for LoongArch64
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0.5.4 05 Aug 2022
Release notes
Changes:
- Remove dependency on errno crate in favor of std functions
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0.5.3 27 Sep 2021
Release notes
Changes:
- lib: added support for serde
- cargo: added serde_support feature
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0.5.2 10 May 2021
Release notes
Changes:
- lib: fix bounding drop error message
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0.5.1 15 Feb 2021
Release notes
Changes:
- nr: fix syscall definitions for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnux32.
- ci: move Travis jobs to GH actions
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0.5.0 16 Oct 2020
Release notes
Changes:
- examples: show how to introspect all capabilities
- nr: add CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
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0.4.0 10 Aug 2020
Release notes
Changes:
- lib: switch 'set' to borrow its argument
- errors: switch to thiserror
- ci: test on multiple architectures
- cargo: switch to edition 2018
- runtime: support procfs cap_last_cap
- caps: mark enum as non-exhaustive
- ci: bump toolchains
- caps: fix warnings
- caps: gracefully support older kernel versions
- nr: add CAP_PERFMON and CAP_BPF
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0.4.0-alpha.2 26 Jun 2020 pre-release

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0.4.0-alpha.1 25 May 2020 pre-release

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0.3.4 09 Jan 2020

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0.3.3 07 Aug 2019

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0.3.2 21 Jun 2019

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0.3.1 04 Jun 2019

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0.3.0 19 Aug 2018

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0.2.0 27 Jan 2018

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0.1.0 23 Nov 2017

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0.0.2 23 Jul 2017

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0.0.1 07 Feb 2017

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