No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
diskcache has 41M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 5.6.3 supports Python 3+, first published in 2016.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2023.
It is used by 941 tracked packages, including dspy, vllm and dvc-data.
GitHub topics include cache, persistence and key-value-store.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
70
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
855 days ago
Monthly downloads
40,952,230
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
40,952,230
Stars
2,892
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
1,177,108
Month daily avg
1,365,074
Momentum
-13.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3
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
Apache 2.0
•
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
1040 days ago
Total releases
84
Releases/year
8.1
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
26
Monthly downloads
40,952,230
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
50
Issue Burden
18.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
184d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
576.3K
Windows
56.4K
macOS
12.3K
Python Versions
3.12
50.6%
300.1K
3.11
17.8%
105.9K
3.10
13.6%
80.5K
3.13
11.6%
68.7K
3.14
6.4%
38.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
470.4K
US
2.
SG
28.1K
SG
3.
DE
22.8K
DE
4.
KR
15.6K
KR
5.
IN
14.3K
IN
6.
IE
14.2K
IE
7.
BE
13.4K
BE
8.
JP
9.0K
JP
9.
NL
6.2K
NL
10.
FR
5.6K
FR
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
941
- dspy
- vllm
- dvc-data
- outlines
- ragas
- simpleflow
- aider-chat
- llama-cpp-python
- flytekit
- pysigma
- qianfan
- glean-parser
- petastorm
- vllm-cpu
- unitxt
- rapidata
- opendsstar
- cognee
- dwave-cloud-client
- vllm-tpu
- verify-everything
- girder-client
- genomepy
- meutils
- infrahouse-toolkit
- pathway
- lilbee
- biomcp-python
- wetterdienst
- holobench
- infrahouse-core
- e-data
- policyengine
- rasa-pro
- cecli-dev
- wet-mcp
- rxn-utils
- inspice
- llmx
- qldpc
- dtlpy
- openhexa-toolbox
- alphameta
- ansible-cached-lookup
- vllm-cpu-nightly
- datashaper
- capellambse
- infinity-parser2
- imagine-mcp
- lytekit
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache 2.0
First Release
February 4, 2016
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
5.6.3
Total Releases
84
Contributors
26
Open PRs
21
Archived
No
Author
Grant Jenks
Python Versions
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh