No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
configobj has 7M monthly downloads and 339 GitHub stars. Version 5.0.9 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2007.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2024.
It is used by 225 tracked packages, including dvc, cli-helpers and certbot.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 9 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
54
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
396 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,019,404
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
7,019,404
Stars
339
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
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
207,948
Month daily avg
233,980
Momentum
-11.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
•
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
588 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
1.0
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
9
Monthly downloads
7,019,404
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
62
Issue Burden
171.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
191d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
107.0K
Windows
3.4K
macOS
1.7K
Python Versions
3.12
34.0%
32.1K
3.11
27.4%
25.9K
3.13
17.6%
16.6K
3.10
14.7%
13.9K
3.14
6.2%
5.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
76.8K
US
2.
DE
4.9K
DE
3.
AU
4.7K
AU
4.
NL
4.6K
NL
5.
GB
2.6K
GB
6.
SG
2.4K
SG
7.
BE
2.2K
BE
8.
KR
2.1K
KR
9.
IE
2.0K
IE
10.
CN
1.4K
CN
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
225
- dvc
- cli-helpers
- certbot
- pgcli
- fitz
- click-config-file
- behavex
- mycli
- pyresample
- litecli
- workflow
- apio
- breezy
- philh-myftp-biz
- databricks-sql-cli
- mayavi
- dxlclient
- scout-browser
- parse-it
- mssql-cli
- brainglobe-utils
- weewx
- chipwhisperer
- privacyidea
- iredis
- diamond
- khal
- tdrpa-tdworker
- lemur
- mozregression
- systematic
- autosubmitconfigparser
- autosubmit
- libsan
- sickchill
- python-secrets
- ruamel-yaml-cmd
- genmod
- local-operator
- irissqlcli
- desimodel
- gerg-plotting
- formosa
- certbot-dns-mijn-host
- bpforms
- gmprocess
- coati-payroll
- brewblox-ctl
- hcam-finder
- athenacli
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
February 4, 2007
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
5.0.9
Total Releases
19
Contributors
9
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
Rob Dennis, Eli Courtwright (Michael Foord & Nicola Larosa original maintainers)
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh