No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
gpiozero has 365K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.0.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2024.
It is used by 92 tracked packages, including zigpy-zigate, yaroc and pytrain-ogr.
GitHub topics include gpio, raspberry-pi and education.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 630 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
71
Adoption
65
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
243 days ago
Monthly downloads
364,696
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
364,696
Stars
2,125
Stars per 1k downloads
5.83
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
11,428
Month daily avg
12,157
Momentum
-6.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
873 days ago
Total releases
26
Releases/year
2.4
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
48
Monthly downloads
364,696
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
83
Issue Burden
80.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
36.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
630d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
9.6K
Windows
134
macOS
97
Python Versions
3.7
62.8%
5.7K
3.14
14.8%
1.3K
3.9
9.7%
882
3.11
7.8%
709
3.12
4.9%
443
Top Countries
1.
FR
5.3K
FR
2.
US
2.5K
US
3.
CA
608
CA
4.
MQ
565
MQ
5.
ES
200
ES
6.
DE
120
DE
7.
IT
81
IT
8.
RU
40
RU
9.
IN
39
IN
10.
SE
34
SE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
92
- zigpy-zigate
- yaroc
- pytrain-ogr
- picohost
- ubo-app
- photobooth-app
- buildhat
- mxbiflow
- epdlib
- tinyticker
- kaithem
- iot-devices
- robot-hat
- pibooth
- mqtt-presence
- hivemind-nfc-reader
- enerpi
- pymxbi
- rpil
- idppnpdongle
- nuki-sesami
- bdpotentiometer
- ovos-phal-plugin-dotstar
- remoteio
- tjbot-ce
- botibot-py
- skinnerbox-source
- retrodevem
- potnanny
- ppnrespeakerdemo
- yaqd-rpi-gpio
- ohmyoled
- pvrespeakerdemo
- philander
- yaqd-adafruit
- rpi-arduino-pin
- daiego43-rasptank
- cps-hhbk
- sigmadsp
- control-laser-tower
- solarium
- zlsnasdisplay
- betterepd7in5
- wyliozero
- gnssrtc
- rpi2home-assistant
- hcli-hak11
- mausam
- smartdoor
- fthat
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
September 15, 2015
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
2.0.1
Total Releases
26
Contributors
48
Open PRs
24
Archived
No
Author
Ben Nuttall
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh