No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
cpplint has 486K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.0.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2012.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2025.
It is used by 13 tracked packages, including coala-bears, wpiformat and bark-simulator.
GitHub topics include cpp, linter and lint.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 440 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
70
Adoption
66
Community
75
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
16 days ago
Monthly downloads
485,981
•
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
485,981
Stars
1,823
Stars per 1k downloads
3.75
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
15,530
Month daily avg
16,199
Momentum
-4.1%
((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-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
456 days ago
Total releases
33
Releases/year
2.4
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
128
Monthly downloads
485,981
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
37.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
41.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
440d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
5.2K
macOS
209
Windows
90
Python Versions
3.12
28.6%
1.2K
3.14
21.8%
937
3.10
17.4%
748
3.11
16.2%
698
3.13
16.0%
690
Top Countries
1.
US
4.4K
US
2.
SG
190
SG
3.
CN
160
CN
4.
CH
136
CH
5.
IE
115
IE
6.
DE
110
DE
7.
GB
81
GB
8.
JP
54
JP
9.
RU
35
RU
10.
AU
34
AU
Dependencies
0
7 optional dependencies
- mypy[dev]
- pylint[dev]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- pytest-timeout[dev]
- testfixtures[dev]
- tox[dev]
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
October 12, 2012
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.0.2
Total Releases
33
Contributors
128
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Google Inc., Thibault Kruse, cpplint developers
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh