Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2026-2447
DiskCache has unsafe pickle deserialization
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 3 weeks ago
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3
Licence
Apache 2.0
Last Release
3 years ago
Author
Grant Jenks
First Release
February 4, 2016
Total Releases
84
Python Versions
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 184 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
71
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
958 days ago
Monthly downloads
24,859,040
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
24,859,040
Stars
2,914
Stars per 1k downloads
0.12
•
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
811,532
Month daily avg
828,635
Momentum
-2.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
1143 days ago
Total releases
84
Releases/year
7.8
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
24,859,040
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
51
Issue Burden
17.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
184d
PR Velocity
Active
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
421.1K
Windows
16.4K
macOS
7.2K
Python Versions
3.12
53.5%
226.4K
3.13
16.3%
69.1K
3.11
14.4%
61.0K
3.10
8.9%
37.5K
3.14
6.9%
29.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
354.2K
US
2.
DE
14.9K
DE
3.
SG
10.4K
SG
4.
BE
9.8K
BE
5.
IT
7.7K
IT
6.
GB
5.9K
GB
7.
JP
5.1K
JP
8.
NL
4.9K
NL
9.
IE
3.8K
IE
10.
FR
3.6K
FR
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars *
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
981
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- dvc-data 1.6M/mo
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- aider-chat 268.2K/mo
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Repository details
GitHub Topics
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh