No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
cheroot has 2.8M monthly downloads and 201 GitHub stars. Version 11.1.2 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.
It is built on top of jaraco-functools and more-itertools. It is used by 56 tracked packages, including cherrypy, xprof and salt.
GitHub topics include wsgi, ssl and http.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 227 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
52
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,800,195
•
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
2,800,195
Stars
201
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
87,022
Month daily avg
93,340
Momentum
-6.8%
((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
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
241 days ago
Total releases
81
Releases/year
6.5
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
120
Monthly downloads
2,800,195
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
368.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
114.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
118.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
227d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
44.8K
Windows
5.6K
macOS
1.6K
Python Versions
3.13
30.5%
15.1K
3.12
28.2%
14.0K
3.11
23.0%
11.4K
3.10
10.4%
5.1K
3.14
7.9%
3.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
42.9K
US
2.
IE
1.6K
IE
3.
SG
1.2K
SG
4.
IN
976
IN
5.
DE
848
DE
6.
GB
806
GB
7.
NL
547
NL
8.
RU
488
RU
9.
FR
381
FR
10.
CN
355
CN
Dependencies
2
6 optional dependencies
- furo[docs]
- jaraco-packaging[docs]
- python-dateutil[docs]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-tabs[docs]
- sphinxcontrib-apidoc[docs]
Used By
56
- cherrypy
- xprof
- salt
- web-py
- fava
- girder
- mistral
- mongo-orchestration
- ete4
- ironic
- pyln-testing
- aird
- pyload-ng
- rdiffweb
- ironic-python-agent
- zuul
- podflow
- rustfava
- kingarthur
- unicorn-bybit-websocket-api
- moirai
- bottle-sipper
- pagermaid
- sampledb
- hydra-base
- browser-ui
- hcai-discover
- ooresults
- leaf-py
- miniwiki
- gitlab-registry-usage-rest
- enfugue
- web-py-update
- mnemosyne-proj
- drime-s3
- synctwink
- idoc
- opsy
- powerhub
- dataflake-wsgi-cheroot
- snapshot-kernel
- cpdlog
- comring
- pywebdavserver
- metaplex-python-api
- p123dav
- ghast
- unicorn-binance-websocket-api-onion
- pyrestserver
- karlovic
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD License
First Release
February 10, 2014
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
11.1.2
Total Releases
81
Contributors
120
Open PRs
27
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
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