No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
backports-weakref has 1.2M monthly downloads and 8 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.post1, first published in 2016.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2017.
It is used by 12 tracked packages, including grvt-pysdk, deepmodels and tensorflow-directml.
GitHub topics include backports and compatibility.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High bus factor: only 1 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
10
Popularity
13
Adoption
80
Community
0
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3188 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,170,854
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
1,170,854
Stars
8
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
40,901
Month daily avg
39,028
Momentum
+4.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Python Software Foundation License
•
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
3214 days ago
Total releases
2
Releases/year
0.2
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
1
Monthly downloads
1,170,854
•
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
5
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
-
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
29.3K
Windows
518
macOS
19
Python Versions
3.11
41.4%
11.7K
3.12
28.6%
8.1K
3.10
19.8%
5.6K
3.9
6.5%
1.8K
3.8
3.6%
1.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
18.2K
US
2.
NL
5.9K
NL
3.
IE
2.8K
IE
4.
IN
799
IN
5.
SG
608
SG
6.
ES
225
ES
7.
GB
203
GB
8.
SE
192
SE
9.
AU
189
AU
10.
HK
177
HK
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Python Software Foundation License
First Release
March 8, 2016
Last Release
8 years ago
Last Commit
8 years ago
Latest Version
1.0.post1
Total Releases
2
Contributors
1
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Pi Delport
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh