No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
billiard has 52.1M monthly downloads and 432 GitHub stars. Version 4.2.4 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2009.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.
It is used by 76 tracked packages, including celery, libsast and docassemble-webapp.
GitHub topics include multiprocessing and celery.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 136 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
61
Adoption
70
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
81 days ago
Monthly downloads
52,144,453
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
52,144,453
Stars
432
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
1,598,654
Month daily avg
1,738,148
Momentum
-8.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
BSD
•
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
218 days ago
Total releases
87
Releases/year
5.2
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
93
Monthly downloads
52,144,453
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
84
Issue Burden
185.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
136d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
849.7K
Windows
7.2K
macOS
5.2K
Python Versions
3.12
37.2%
300.1K
3.11
24.0%
193.6K
3.13
15.2%
122.8K
3.10
14.1%
114.0K
3.14
9.4%
75.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
699.3K
US
2.
DE
22.0K
DE
3.
IN
21.4K
IN
4.
SG
10.9K
SG
5.
GB
8.5K
GB
6.
AU
8.1K
AU
7.
NL
8.0K
NL
8.
KR
7.6K
KR
9.
FR
7.2K
FR
10.
RU
5.9K
RU
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
76
- celery
- libsast
- docassemble-webapp
- oarepo
- edc
- scrapyscript
- sentry
- lemur
- misago
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- centurion-erp
- jinjamator
- indico
- openrelik-common
- galaxy
- xtcryptosignals
- django-video-transcoding
- kwola
- fastapi-basic
- ytdl-server
- vision-common
- tterp-cores
- cabot
- evcouplings
- pantos-common
- pygtftk
- edna2
- pyrosetta-distributed
- trollhunter
- sqlite-rx
- pantos-client-library
- cnx-publishing
- celeryviz
- autotm
- suffolklitlab-docassemble-webapp
- deseasion-backend
- sb-sync
- django-smsgateway
- vision-client-library
- remax-pipeline
- a-piece-of-shit
- data-pypeline
- flask-restful-helper
- datasploit
- sriram-twitter-scraper
- django-backups
- pipet
- my-quart-app
- mans-to-es
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
November 16, 2009
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
4.2.4
Total Releases
87
Contributors
93
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
R Oudkerk / Python Software Foundation
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
cp27
cp3
cp33
cp34
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh