No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
boost-histogram has 1.2M monthly downloads and 162 GitHub stars. Version 1.7.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2019.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of numpy. It is used by 21 tracked packages, including hist, zfit and dask-histogram.
GitHub topics include scikit-hep and histogram.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
46
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,155,773
•
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
1,155,773
Stars
162
Stars per 1k downloads
0.14
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
29,500
Month daily avg
38,526
Momentum
-23.4%
((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
BSD-3-Clause AND BSL-1.0
•
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
87 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
5.6
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
36
Monthly downloads
1,155,773
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
75
Issue Burden
104.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
172.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
112.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
81d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
4.5K
macOS
127
Windows
88
Python Versions
3.12
71.7%
3.3K
3.11
12.6%
585
3.10
8.0%
371
3.14
5.7%
262
3.13
2.0%
94
Top Countries
1.
US
4.7K
US
2.
GB
1.2K
GB
3.
CN
264
CN
4.
NL
158
NL
5.
HK
132
HK
6.
DE
102
DE
7.
SG
89
SG
8.
CH
75
CH
9.
AU
40
AU
10.
SE
36
SE
Dependencies
1
- numpy >=1.21.3
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause AND BSL-1.0
First Release
October 16, 2019
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
1.7.2
Total Releases
38
Contributors
36
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp35
cp37
cp38
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh