No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

adal has 44.5M monthly downloads and 259 GitHub stars. Version 1.2.7, first published in 2015.

Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2021.

It is used by 41 tracked packages, including azureml-core, sfctl and c7n-azure.

Downloads
Day
1.5M
Week
10.3M
Month
44.5M
Stars
259
Forks
90
Issues
0
Version
1.2.7

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
53
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1100 days ago
Monthly downloads
44,521,422
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
44,521,422
Stars
259
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
1,467,200
Month daily avg
1,484,047
Momentum
-1.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1918 days ago
Total releases
26
Releases/year
2.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
175
Monthly downloads
44,521,422
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
66
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
11.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
194.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
817d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 857.9K
Windows 456.9K
macOS 205

Python Versions

3.8
38.1% 477.9K
3.10
28.5% 356.6K
3.12
15.3% 192.2K
3.11
14.7% 184.6K
3.9
3.4% 42.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
846.7K
2. NL NL
297.5K
3. IE IE
105.8K
4. CA CA
14.4K
5. IN IN
9.1K
6. AU AU
8.1K
7. GB GB
6.2K
8. FR FR
5.9K
9. SG SG
5.8K
10. HK HK
4.5K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 8, 2015
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
1.2.7
Total Releases
26
Contributors
175
Open PRs
0
Archived
Yes
Author
Microsoft Corporation
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh