$ wasmtime

v40.0.1

High-level API to expose the Wasmtime runtime

Downloads: 17.1M
Recent: 1.9M
Versions: 162
Updated: January 7, 2026

Latest Update Summary

Crate

Name: wasmtime New version: 40.0.0 Release date: 2025-12-22T16:06:10.910633Z

Crate readme

Short description A standalone runtime for WebAssembly.

Long description Wasmtime is a standalone runtime for executing WebAssembly code. It is built on the optimizing Cranelift code generator for fast performance, emphasizing security and correctness through Rust's safety guarantees. Wasmtime supports a variety of languages through embeddings and implements a rich set of APIs via the WASI standard, making it suitable for various environments and use cases.

Features • Fast • Secure • Configurable • WASI • Standards Compliant

Code Examples Installation

 curl https://wasmtime.dev/install.sh -sSf | bash

Basic usage

 rustup target add wasm32-wasip2
rustc hello.rs --target wasm32-wasip2
wasmtime hello.wasm

Linkshttps://webassembly.org/https://bytecodealliance.org/https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtimehttps://docs.rs/wasmtimehttps://wasmtime.dev/

https://docs.rs/wasmtime https://api.github.com/repos/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/272252914

Release info

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Code Examples

Patch update: 40.0.0 → 40.0.1

$ DOWNLOADS TREND

16.5M17.1M

$ VERSION HISTORY

v40.0.1January 7, 2026
v40.0.0December 22, 2025
v39.0.1November 24, 2025

$ LINKS

$ INSTALL

cargo add wasmtime

Or add to Cargo.toml: wasmtime = "40.0.1"