No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
bitstring has 6M monthly downloads and 445 GitHub stars. Version 4.4.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2009.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of bitarray and tibs. It is used by 193 tracked packages, including esptool, pyvex and spsdk.
GitHub topics include bitstring, bit-manipulation and bitarray.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 111 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
56
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,042,727
•
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
6,042,727
Stars
445
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
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
189,950
Month daily avg
201,424
Momentum
-5.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
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
118 days ago
Total releases
55
Releases/year
3.2
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
14
Monthly downloads
6,042,727
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
59
Issue Burden
29.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
29.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
17.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
111d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
108.4K
Windows
8.5K
macOS
4.6K
Python Versions
3.13
30.4%
32.5K
3.8
26.0%
27.8K
3.12
19.9%
21.3K
3.11
12.8%
13.6K
3.14
10.9%
11.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
83.5K
US
2.
DE
7.2K
DE
3.
SG
3.0K
SG
4.
NL
2.6K
NL
5.
FR
2.5K
FR
6.
GB
2.5K
GB
7.
CN
2.0K
CN
8.
DK
1.5K
DK
9.
PL
1.5K
PL
10.
IN
1.3K
IN
Used By
193
- esptool
- pyvex
- spsdk
- resemble-perth
- sbe
- bagpy
- babeldoc
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- pysml
- aiolifx
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- pyln-proto
- crossbar
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- osxmetadata
- qat-core
- chia-blockchain
- ioddcombase
- myqlm-fermion
- pydeephaven
- sourmash
- pybufrkit
- kittyfuzzer
- cashu
- smspdudecoder
- puslib
- pysteamauth
- 32blit
- oresat-configs
- quarry
- dmr-utils3
- oresat-c3
- muselsl
- iog-randomizer
- bientropy
- acomms
- pyutils
- pyrtmp
- pretty-j1939
- signalcat
- tonpy-dev
- ltcodecs
- flagonfly
- spac-kit
- tintolib
- umbi
- yadt
- bluetooth-mesh-network
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
March 13, 2009
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
4.4.0
Total Releases
55
Contributors
14
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh