No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
dnslib has 1.5M monthly downloads and 326 GitHub stars. Version 0.9.26, first published in 2010.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2025.
It is used by 43 tracked packages, including localstack, localstack-core and microdns.
GitHub topics include dns.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
54
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
491 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,509,129
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
1,509,129
Stars
326
Stars per 1k downloads
0.22
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
49,617
Month daily avg
50,304
Momentum
-1.4%
((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
490 days ago
Total releases
42
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
19
Monthly downloads
1,509,129
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
57
Issue Burden
3.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
22.1%
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
20.7K
Windows
669
macOS
497
Python Versions
3.12
34.2%
7.0K
3.10
31.0%
6.4K
3.11
21.1%
4.3K
3.13
8.5%
1.7K
3.14
5.2%
1.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
17.4K
US
2.
GB
986
GB
3.
AU
787
AU
4.
FI
653
FI
5.
DE
509
DE
6.
SG
334
SG
7.
NL
317
NL
8.
UA
247
UA
9.
IE
181
IE
10.
CH
164
CH
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
43
- localstack
- localstack-core
- microdns
- atomicshop
- chia-blockchain
- py-emailprotections
- teamhack-dns
- quicksand-core
- dfir-unfurl
- teamhack-db
- dnserver
- taskmux
- wirelessxpl
- leveltoofast
- nserver
- foghorn
- chik-blockchain
- dosuby
- dnspooh
- certbot-dns-standalone
- findabuse
- localstack-cli-standalone
- dscan
- lyrebird-emulator
- dnstrace
- pynetkit
- dnschef-ng
- teamhack
- dnsproxy
- cir2-hldns
- multidns
- dns-local
- hooktui
- https-dns-proxy
- dns-is-reverse
- scopeshift
- pyurlmapper
- hldns
- cir1-hldns
- pseudo-opendns
- playground-ls-core
- playground-ls-cli
- asynchttpsdns
Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
September 19, 2010
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.9.26
Total Releases
42
Contributors
19
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
PaulC
Python Versions
2
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh