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pythongssapi

gssapi

A Python interface to RFC 2743/2744 (plus common extensions)
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

gssapi has 5.3M monthly downloads and 114 GitHub stars. Version 1.11.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.

It is built on top of decorator. It is used by 36 tracked packages, including requests-gssapi, httpx-gssapi and nitrate.

GitHub topics include gssapi, kerberos and krb5.

Downloads
Day
173.8K
Week
1.2M
Month
5.3M
Stars
114
Forks
55
Issues
15
Version
1.11.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
46
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
161 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,315,994
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
5,315,994
Stars
114
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
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
178,473
Month daily avg
177,200
Momentum
+0.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
ISC
• 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
161 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
3.2
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
30
Monthly downloads
5,315,994
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
64
 
Issue Burden
131.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
43.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
54.5%
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 157.9K
Windows 338
macOS 174

Python Versions

3.10
36.8% 57.1K
3.11
16.9% 26.2K
3.12
16.8% 26.0K
3.13
16.1% 24.9K
3.14
13.5% 20.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
153.6K
2. GB GB
1.6K
3. FR FR
469
4. SG SG
415
5. IE IE
397
6. DE DE
359
7. NL NL
335
8. BE BE
324
9. AU AU
257
10. CN CN
197
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
ISC
First Release
December 23, 2014
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
1.11.1
Total Releases
37
Contributors
30
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
The Python GSSAPI Team
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp313 cp39
Keywords
gssapi security
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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