No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
git-cliff has 177K monthly downloads and 12K GitHub stars. Version 2.13.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2023.
It is actively maintained, last released in Apr 2026.
It is used by 5 tracked packages, including vmn, releez and common-python-tasks.
GitHub topics include changelog, generator and changelog-generator.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
81
Adoption
62
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
16 days ago
Monthly downloads
177,247
•
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
177,247
Stars
11,995
Stars per 1k downloads
67.67
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
5,608
Month daily avg
5,908
Momentum
-5.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
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
71 days ago
Total releases
26
Releases/year
9.1
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
147
Monthly downloads
177,247
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
76
Issue Burden
8.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
48.7%
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
4.5K
macOS
259
Windows
240
Python Versions
3.10
44.1%
2.1K
3.12
21.8%
1.1K
3.14
13.7%
662
3.13
12.7%
615
3.11
7.6%
367
Top Countries
1.
US
4.2K
US
2.
RU
263
RU
3.
ID
256
ID
4.
NL
169
NL
5.
JP
97
JP
6.
DE
87
DE
7.
FR
63
FR
8.
SG
56
SG
9.
TW
39
TW
10.
IE
22
IE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
August 31, 2023
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.13.1
Total Releases
26
Contributors
147
Open PRs
44
Archived
No
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh