No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
dumb-init has 462K monthly downloads and 7K GitHub stars. Version 1.2.5.post1, first published in 2015.
It is stably maintained, last released in Apr 2022.
It is used by 1 tracked package, including publsp.
GitHub topics include docker, pid1 and init.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1436 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
79
Adoption
76
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
95 days ago
Monthly downloads
462,158
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
462,158
Stars
7,293
Stars per 1k downloads
15.78
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
15,656
Month daily avg
15,405
Momentum
+1.6%
((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
1532 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
2.0
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
116
Monthly downloads
462,158
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
59
Issue Burden
2.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1436d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
2.8K
macOS
5
Windows
1
Python Versions
3.14
37.6%
938
3.12
32.7%
815
3.11
15.2%
380
3.10
11.4%
285
3.13
3.1%
78
Top Countries
1.
US
2.5K
US
2.
DE
119
DE
3.
IE
97
IE
4.
NL
45
NL
5.
NO
44
NO
6.
FR
43
FR
7.
GB
35
GB
8.
AU
24
AU
9.
JP
21
JP
10.
SE
12
SE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
1
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
August 11, 2015
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
1.2.5.post1
Total Releases
22
Contributors
116
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
Yelp
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh