No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
glfw has 3.5M monthly downloads and 252 GitHub stars. Version 2.10.0, first published in 2014.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is used by 126 tracked packages, including mujoco, dm-control and isaacsim-core.
GitHub topics include glfw and opengl.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
49
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
297 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,471,699
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
3,471,699
Stars
252
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
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
80,994
Month daily avg
115,723
Momentum
-30.0%
((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
118 days ago
Total releases
61
Releases/year
5.0
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
14
Monthly downloads
3,471,699
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
36
Issue Burden
11.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.9%
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
46.7K
Windows
2.6K
macOS
1.1K
Python Versions
3.13
39.3%
19.2K
3.12
28.9%
14.1K
3.11
16.1%
7.9K
3.10
13.3%
6.5K
3.14
2.4%
1.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
37.9K
US
2.
SG
3.9K
SG
3.
IN
1.4K
IN
4.
HK
911
HK
5.
CN
884
CN
6.
CA
599
CA
7.
JP
556
JP
8.
DE
530
DE
9.
RU
471
RU
10.
KR
395
KR
Dependencies
0
1 optional dependencies
- glfw-preview[preview]
Used By
126
- mujoco
- dm-control
- isaacsim-core
- envpool
- mujoco-python-viewer
- gym3
- mbo-utilities
- simplewindow
- shaderflow
- glue-vispy-viewers
- pyopenxr
- tachypy
- coldtype
- flitter-lang
- mujoco-uni
- p5
- cudacanvas
- e2d
- ais-cryoet
- pyforge3d
- aether-engine
- free-mujoco-py
- seamstress-world-models
- nxdk-pgraph-test-runner
- vizmo
- py5canvas
- whippersnappy
- mcio-ctrl
- warpsph
- flab-utils
- histox
- nebulatk
- ncca-ngl
- yostlabs-graphics
- suzaku
- slideflow
- keelpy
- lizi-engine
- pydelfem2
- bereshit
- concur
- glplot
- pyvvisf
- fsqc
- rcs-core
- moojoco
- glotlib
- pyviewer
- mujoco-py-cython3
- mcio-remote
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
March 23, 2014
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
2.10.0
Total Releases
61
Contributors
14
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Florian Rhiem
Python Versions
2
3
Wheels
py2
py27
py3
py30
py31
py310
py311
py312
py313
py314
py32
py33
py34
py35
py36
py37
py38
py39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh