$ wasmtime

v44.0.1MAJOR UPDATE

High-level API to expose the Wasmtime runtime

Downloads: 22.2M
Recent: 4.5M
Versions: 187
Updated: April 30, 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

Release version:

Release description

Code Examples

Patch update: 44.0.0 → 44.0.1

$ DOWNLOADS TREND

16.5M22.2M

$ VERSION HISTORY

v44.0.1April 30, 2026
v44.0.0April 30, 2026
v44.0.0April 20, 2026
v43.0.1April 9, 2026
v43.0.0April 9, 2026
v43.0.0March 20, 2026
v42.0.1February 25, 2026
v40.0.2January 14, 2026
v40.0.1January 14, 2026
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 = "44.0.1"