No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
breathe has 1.6M monthly downloads and 814 GitHub stars. Version 4.36.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2011.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2025.
It is built on top of sphinx. It is used by 15 tracked packages, including exhale, rocm-docs-core and esp-docs.
GitHub topics include sphinx and doxygen.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 281 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
64
Adoption
60
Community
90
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
217 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,586,879
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
1,586,879
Stars
814
Stars per 1k downloads
0.51
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
44,969
Month daily avg
52,896
Momentum
-15.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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 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
499 days ago
Total releases
68
Releases/year
4.6
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
105
Monthly downloads
1,586,879
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
93
Issue Burden
238.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
25.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
49.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
281d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
16.7K
Windows
1.1K
macOS
363
Python Versions
3.12
38.7%
6.8K
3.10
33.1%
5.8K
3.14
11.7%
2.1K
3.11
11.4%
2.0K
3.13
5.1%
901
Top Countries
1.
US
15.0K
US
2.
SG
1.0K
SG
3.
DE
424
DE
4.
DK
308
DK
5.
IE
292
IE
6.
UA
245
UA
7.
GB
220
GB
8.
LT
142
LT
9.
IN
104
IN
10.
NL
81
NL
Dependencies
1
- sphinx >=7.2
11 optional dependencies
- furo[docs]
- mypy[lint]
- pytest[lint]
- pytest[test]
- ruff[lint]
- sphinx-copybutton[docs]
- sphinx-csharp[lint]
- sphinxcontrib-phpdomain[lint]
- sphinxcontrib-spelling[docs]
- types-docutils[lint]
- types-pygments[lint]
Package Information
License
BSD License
First Release
August 31, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
4.36.0
Total Releases
68
Contributors
105
Open PRs
19
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh