No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
gnupg has 1.9M monthly downloads and 424 GitHub stars. Version 2.3.1, first published in 2013.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a copyleft license, last released in Sep 2017.
It is used by 19 tracked packages, including py3rosmsgs, python-secrets and xeauth.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 328 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
59
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2896 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,939,706
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
1,939,706
Stars
424
Stars per 1k downloads
0.22
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
66,970
Month daily avg
64,657
Momentum
+3.6%
((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
GPLv3+
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
3225 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
2.2
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
35
Monthly downloads
1,939,706
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
72
Issue Burden
165.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
328d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
54.1K
Windows
10
macOS
9
Python Versions
3.10
44.5%
23.9K
3.12
24.3%
13.1K
3.7
15.4%
8.3K
3.9
11.9%
6.4K
3.11
4.0%
2.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
26.6K
US
2.
IE
18.3K
IE
3.
IN
7.6K
IN
4.
DE
880
DE
5.
CA
143
CA
6.
SG
132
SG
7.
NL
121
NL
8.
AE
117
AE
9.
CN
57
CN
10.
HK
51
HK
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
GPLv3+
First Release
July 2, 2013
Last Release
8 years ago
Last Commit
7 years ago
Latest Version
2.3.1
Total Releases
28
Contributors
35
Open PRs
28
Archived
No
Author
Isis Agora Lovecruft
Python Versions
2
2.6
2.7
3
3.3
3.4
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh