No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
ansible-core has 16.6M monthly downloads and 69K GitHub stars. Version 2.16.19 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2020.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of cryptography, jinja2 and packaging. It is used by 94 tracked packages, including ansible, ansible-compat and ansible-lint.
GitHub topics include ansible.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
97
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
16,649,851
•
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
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
16,649,851
Stars
69,301
Stars per 1k downloads
4.16
•
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
539,405
Month daily avg
554,995
Momentum
-2.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
License categories
License
GPLv3+
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
18 days ago
Total releases
331
Releases/year
58.1
•
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
5,561
Monthly downloads
16,649,851
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
80
Issue Burden
7.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
322.5K
macOS
1.5K
Windows
329
Python Versions
3.12
42.3%
116.1K
3.9
20.5%
56.2K
3.11
17.0%
46.6K
3.14
10.3%
28.3K
3.13
9.9%
27.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
218.1K
US
2.
AU
17.2K
AU
3.
SG
16.7K
SG
4.
DE
13.9K
DE
5.
FR
7.7K
FR
6.
IE
6.7K
IE
7.
CA
5.5K
CA
8.
GB
4.6K
GB
9.
NL
4.6K
NL
10.
SE
4.3K
SE
Dependencies
5
- cryptography
- jinja2 >=3.0.0
- packaging
- pyyaml >=5.1
- resolvelib <1.1.0,>=0.5.3
Used By
94
- ansible
- ansible-compat
- ansible-lint
- molecule
- pytest-ansible
- ansible-vault
- bbot
- galaxy-importer
- ansible-modules-hashivault
- jinjanator-plugin-ansible
- greatminds
- kolla-ansible
- andebox
- rapyuta-io-cli
- obsah
- ansible-playbook-grapher
- hagrid
- hive-builder
- freva-deployment
- agsekit
- pubtools-sign
- netbox-manager
- ops-cli
- rocannon
- ansiburr
- ansible-inventory-grapher
- ansible-waldur-module
- ansible-inspec
- lampsible
- oxl-ansible-webui
- chainedci
- keeper-secrets-manager-ansible
- labops
- ansible-variables
- llm-workflow-engine
- unfurl
- ansible-butler
- ansible-jailexec
- ansible-vault-decrypt
- provisioner-shared
- enoslib-ansible
- oxl-ansible-executor-plugins
- remo-cli
- ploy-ansible
- ansible-host
- oxl-ansible-executor
- ansibleguy-webui
- machine-stats
- pipelx
- cmdbsyncer-inventory
Package Information
License
GPLv3+
First Release
October 27, 2020
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
2.16.19
Total Releases
331
Contributors
5,561
Open PRs
286
Archived
No
Author
Ansible, Inc.
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh