No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
dotenv has 10.9M monthly downloads and 38 GitHub stars. Version 0.9.9, first published in 2013.
It is showing limited recent maintenance, last released in Feb 2025.
It is built on top of python-dotenv. It is used by 873 tracked packages, including qwen-agent, judgeval and biocontext-kb.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 5 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
33
Adoption
70
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
514 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,865,021
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
10,865,021
Stars
38
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
•
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
335,881
Month daily avg
362,167
Momentum
-7.3%
((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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
502 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
0.4
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
5
Monthly downloads
10,865,021
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
54
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
45.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
187.3K
Windows
6.4K
macOS
2.8K
Python Versions
3.12
38.4%
72.2K
3.11
23.2%
43.7K
3.13
19.8%
37.2K
3.10
11.9%
22.4K
3.14
6.6%
12.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
128.3K
US
2.
DE
7.3K
DE
3.
NL
7.0K
NL
4.
JP
6.9K
JP
5.
IN
6.0K
IN
6.
BE
5.4K
BE
7.
HK
5.1K
HK
8.
SG
3.7K
SG
9.
SE
3.6K
SE
10.
IE
3.4K
IE
Dependencies
1
Used By
873
- qwen-agent
- judgeval
- biocontext-kb
- serena-agent
- evalscope
- langbot-plugin
- endoreg-db
- ai-sdk-py
- agent-cli
- naas-abi-core
- marpledata
- wexample-app
- pixlstash
- pysus
- nonebot-plugin-suggarchat
- ofscraper
- nao-core
- sigmaflow
- redis-mcp-server
- chuk-artifacts
- oarepo-model
- comate-agent-sdk
- pyagentic-core
- amrita
- vision-agent
- smartx-rfid
- fastapi-startkit
- ml-analytics-tools
- agentic-radar
- hscida
- otoolbox
- pyfilament
- shipit-cli
- cassiopeia
- mbu-dev-shared-components
- langchain-compass
- pylegifrance
- ms-vlmeval
- hape
- paperscraper
- single-cell-metabolomics
- cai-framework
- skill-framework
- cuvis-ai-core
- pfun-cma-model
- kodit
- omni-python-sdk
- liberty-airflow
- forgetful-ai
- lazynwb
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
January 23, 2013
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.9.9
Total Releases
5
Contributors
5
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Pedro Burón
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh