No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
django-rest-knox has 784K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 5.0.4 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2015.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of django and djangorestframework. It is used by 20 tracked packages, including grooveshop-django-api, django-sodar-core and argus-server.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
66
Adoption
68
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
119 days ago
Monthly downloads
783,657
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
783,657
Stars
1,258
Stars per 1k downloads
1.61
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
25,293
Month daily avg
26,122
Momentum
-3.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
MIT
•
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
119 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
2.7
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
727
Monthly downloads
783,657
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
72
Issue Burden
20.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
324.6%
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
6.6K
Windows
22
macOS
8
Python Versions
3.12
37.6%
2.4K
3.11
33.9%
2.2K
3.14
14.0%
891
3.13
10.8%
690
3.10
3.7%
237
Top Countries
1.
US
5.4K
US
2.
DE
485
DE
3.
NL
151
NL
4.
SG
121
SG
5.
IN
85
IN
6.
CH
67
CH
7.
AU
59
AU
8.
BE
54
BE
9.
CA
44
CA
10.
MX
35
MX
Dependencies
2
- django >=4.2
- djangorestframework
Used By
20
- grooveshop-django-api
- django-sodar-core
- argus-server
- django-cms-qe
- zango
- jaseci-serv
- django-apitokens
- jfk-django-core
- papermerge-core
- drf-jwt-knox
- django-space
- drf-auth-simple
- django-rest-knox-redis
- drf-simple-auth-jwt
- opendrift-leeway-webgui
- django-rest-social-email-allauth
- zcorepy
- zelthy3
- sparkplug-api-core
- onoffmonitorserver
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
September 12, 2015
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
5.0.4
Total Releases
29
Contributors
727
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
James McMahon
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh