No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
cherrypy has 908K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 18.10.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2005.
It is minimally maintained, last released in Jun 2024.
It is built on top of cheroot, importlib-metadata and jaraco-collections. It is used by 138 tracked packages, including salt, girder and flexget.
GitHub topics include idiomatic-python, http and http-server.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 523 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
71
Adoption
69
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
229 days ago
Monthly downloads
908,378
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
908,378
Stars
1,943
Stars per 1k downloads
2.14
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
27,402
Month daily avg
30,279
Momentum
-9.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
Freely Distributable
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
752 days ago
Total releases
108
Releases/year
5.3
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
123
Monthly downloads
908,378
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
85
Issue Burden
123.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
523d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
16.2K
Windows
3.3K
macOS
913
Python Versions
3.11
43.1%
7.9K
3.14
18.1%
3.3K
3.10
18.0%
3.3K
3.13
11.9%
2.2K
3.12
8.9%
1.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
15.7K
US
2.
IN
911
IN
3.
SG
849
SG
4.
IE
657
IE
5.
DE
646
DE
6.
NL
218
NL
7.
GB
216
GB
8.
CN
209
CN
9.
DK
186
DK
10.
FR
145
FR
Dependencies
7
- cheroot >=8.2.1
- importlib-metadata
- jaraco-collections
- more-itertools
- portend >=2.1.1
- pywin32 >=227
- zc-lockfile
20 optional dependencies
- alabaster[docs]
- docutils[docs]
- flup[xcgi]
- jaraco-packaging[docs]
- objgraph[testing]
- path-py[testing]
- pyopenssl[ssl]
- pytest[testing]
- pytest-cov[testing]
- pytest-forked[testing]
- pytest-services[testing]
- pytest-sugar[testing]
- python-memcached[memcached-session]
- requests-toolbelt[testing]
- routes[routes-dispatcher]
- rst-linker[docs]
- setuptools[testing]
- simplejson[json]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinxcontrib-apidoc[docs]
Used By
138
- salt
- girder
- flexget
- scoutsuite
- cherrypy-foundation
- spiderfoot-ng
- rdiffweb
- codechat-server
- zuul
- reqmgr2
- wmcore
- cylc-uiserver
- plainbook
- reqmon
- flask-production
- wmagent
- librarypaste
- podflow
- msrulecleaner
- tvb-framework
- alignak-webui
- resotolib
- dataspyre
- msunmerged
- msmonitor
- msoutput
- mstransferor
- sloth-ci
- nitrous
- mspileup
- crate-anon
- python-microscopy
- wmglobalqueue
- wmagentdev
- kingarthur
- fixinventorylib
- alignak-module-ws
- ka-lite
- geniusrise-vision
- geniusrise-text
- myprox
- pacifica-metadata
- alignak
- hostlist
- akande
- sampledb
- resotoworker
- camcops-server
- cmonkey2
- rabe-nowplaying
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Freely Distributable
First Release
December 15, 2005
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
18.10.0
Total Releases
108
Contributors
123
Open PRs
26
Archived
No
Author
CherryPy Team
Python Versions
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh