solana-validator is used at run time in 1 crate. It's used only as a dev dependency in 2 crates.

Number of dependers solana-validator version Downloads/month
1 1.18.26 410
1 1.14.18 0
1 1.13.7 32
Depender (with downloads and own rev deps) solana-validator version
150 solana-replica-node =1.13.7
solana-json dev =1.14.18
squads-program dev ^1.9.4