Installation

You may download the SLSA3 compliant binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows from our releases page.

Package Managers

Windows Scoop

Windows Scoop users can install osv-scanner from the official bucket:

scoop install osv-scanner

Homebrew

Homebrew users can install osv-scanner via:

brew install osv-scanner

Arch Linux

Arch Linux users can install osv-scanner from the official repo:

pacman -S osv-scanner

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux users can install osv-scanner from the official repo:

apk add osv-scanner

FreeBSD

FreeBSD users can install osv-scanner from the official repo:

pkg install osv-scanner

NetBSD

NetBSD users can install osv-scanner from the official repo:

pkg_add osv-scanner

OpenBSD

OpenBSD users can install osv-scanner from the official repo:

pkg_add osv-scanner

Install from source

Alternatively, you can install this from source by running:

go install github.com/google/osv-scanner/cmd/osv-scanner@v1

This requires Go 1.22.10+ to be installed.

Build from source

See our contribution guidelines for instructions on how to build from source.

Verifying Builds

Each of our releases come with SLSA provenance data (multiple.intoto.jsonl), which can be used to verify the source and provenance of the binaries with the slsa-verifier tool.

E.g.

slsa-verifier verify-artifact ./osv-scanner_1.2.0_linux_amd64 --provenance-path multiple.intoto2.jsonl --source-uri github.com/google/osv-scanner --source-tag v1.2.0

SemVer Adherence

All releases on the same Major version will be guaranteed to have backward compatible JSON output and CLI arguments. However, features prefixed with experimental (e.g. --experimental-call-analysis) might be changed or removed with only a Minor version change.