No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
django-cachalot has 219K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 2.9.0, first published in 2014.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.
It is built on top of django. It is used by 4 tracked packages, including codex, zango and zcorepy.
GitHub topics include django, performance and cache.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
66
Adoption
63
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
160 days ago
Monthly downloads
218,584
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
218,584
Stars
1,427
Stars per 1k downloads
6.53
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
6,870
Month daily avg
7,286
Momentum
-5.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD
•
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
160 days ago
Total releases
48
Releases/year
4.1
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
44
Monthly downloads
218,584
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
53
Issue Burden
16.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.0K
Windows
59
macOS
48
Python Versions
3.12
26.8%
701
3.14
23.3%
609
3.11
21.4%
559
3.13
17.1%
447
3.7
11.4%
298
Top Countries
1.
US
1.7K
US
2.
GB
380
GB
3.
DE
215
DE
4.
FI
156
FI
5.
IN
72
IN
6.
IE
69
IE
7.
DK
47
DK
8.
KR
44
KR
9.
ES
35
ES
10.
NL
34
NL
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
October 1, 2014
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
2.9.0
Total Releases
48
Contributors
44
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Bertrand Bordage, Andrew Chen Wang
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh