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futures

Backport of the concurrent.futures package to Python 2.6 and 2.7
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

futures has 3M monthly downloads and 236 GitHub stars. Version 3.4.0 supports Python >=2.6, <3, first published in 2009.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2022.

It is used by 165 tracked packages, including azure-cosmosdb-table, azure-storage-file and tccli.

Downloads
Day
91.3K
Week
702.8K
Month
3.0M
Stars
236
Forks
46
Issues
4
Version
3.4.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
49
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1344 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,037,610
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
3,037,610
Stars
236
Stars per 1k downloads
0.08
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
100,405
Month daily avg
101,254
Momentum
-0.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.6, <3
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
PSF
• 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
1344 days ago
Total releases
24
Releases/year
1.4
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
14
Monthly downloads
3,037,610
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
46
 
Issue Burden
16.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.4%
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 65.2K
Windows 383
macOS 270

Python Versions

2.7
67.1% 41.9K
3.10
19.4% 12.1K
3.12
5.9% 3.7K
3.9
4.9% 3.0K
3.7
2.7% 1.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
55.1K
2. SG SG
4.5K
3. IE IE
1.2K
4. DE DE
1.2K
5. AU AU
1.1K
6. IN IN
717
7. GB GB
526
8. HU HU
438
9. ID ID
358
10. FR FR
283

Package Information

License
PSF
First Release
June 4, 2009
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
3.4.0
Total Releases
24
Contributors
14
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Brian Quinlan
Python Versions
2.6 2.7
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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