No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
fs has 3.7M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.4.16, first published in 2014.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in May 2022.
It is used by 169 tracked packages, including gcp-storage-emulator, xblock and openedx-django-pyfs.
GitHub topics include filesystem, pyfilesystem and pyfilesystem2.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1111 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
69
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
415 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,663,112
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
3,663,112
Stars
2,102
Stars per 1k downloads
0.57
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
117,852
Month daily avg
122,104
Momentum
-3.5%
((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
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
1526 days ago
Total releases
86
Releases/year
7.0
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
43
Monthly downloads
3,663,112
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
43.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
22.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1111d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
80.6K
Windows
1.6K
macOS
459
Python Versions
3.11
61.1%
47.5K
3.10
21.9%
17.0K
3.12
12.2%
9.5K
3.13
2.6%
2.0K
3.14
2.2%
1.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
65.5K
US
2.
IE
11.1K
IE
3.
GB
1.4K
GB
4.
SG
905
SG
5.
DE
759
DE
6.
CN
538
CN
7.
CA
449
CA
8.
ES
286
ES
9.
NL
228
NL
10.
RU
209
RU
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
169
- gcp-storage-emulator
- xblock
- openedx-django-pyfs
- fs-onedrivefs
- xblocks-contrib
- bonobo
- django-bakery
- reana-commons
- oarepo
- anisette
- httpfs
- tune
- cumulusci-plus
- flywheel-cli
- fs-dropboxfs
- miarec-smbfs
- miarec-s3fs
- miarec-ftpfs
- miarec-sshfs
- onegov-core
- pytigon-lib
- foundry-dev-tools-transforms
- pytigon
- galaxy-files
- rowgenerators
- eo-learn
- jinja2-fsloader
- rspace-client
- flaskerize
- flywheel-migration
- ibmpairs
- app-server
- kathara
- instalooter
- jy-lib
- enbios
- cs-demand-model
- latextools
- galaxy
- msabase
- codereport
- airflow-diagrams
- dataset-manager
- plateaukit
- eo-grow
- fs-s3fs-ng
- openesef
- bagit-create
- starwhale
- fs-googledrivefs
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
March 14, 2014
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
2.4.16
Total Releases
86
Contributors
43
Open PRs
27
Archived
No
Author
Will McGugan
Python Versions
2.7
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh