No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
gherkin-official has 2.6M monthly downloads and 360 GitHub stars. Version 41.0.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 22 tracked packages, including pytest-bdd, reformat-gherkin and gherkin2robotframework.
GitHub topics include gherkin, polyglot-release and c.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
55
Adoption
80
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,612,786
•
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
2,612,786
Stars
360
Stars per 1k downloads
0.14
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
89,661
Month daily avg
87,093
Momentum
+2.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
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
16 days ago
Total releases
58
Releases/year
5.5
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
154
Monthly downloads
2,612,786
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
80
Issue Burden
113.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
157.1%
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
46.2K
macOS
403
Windows
381
Python Versions
3.14
47.4%
21.4K
3.12
21.5%
9.7K
3.13
11.5%
5.2K
3.11
10.8%
4.9K
3.10
8.8%
4.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
40.2K
US
2.
IE
1.7K
IE
3.
DE
1.1K
DE
4.
SE
1.0K
SE
5.
GB
726
GB
6.
NL
312
NL
7.
SG
288
SG
8.
FI
264
FI
9.
IN
229
IN
10.
KR
192
KR
Dependencies
1
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
January 12, 2016
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
41.0.0
Total Releases
58
Contributors
154
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
Cucumber Ltd and Björn Rasmusson
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh