No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
hvac has 30M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 2.4.0 supports Python <4.0,>=3.8, first published in 2015.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2025.
It is built on top of requests. It is used by 229 tracked packages, including apache-airflow-providers-hashicorp, juju and cuga.
GitHub topics include vault, hashicorp and client.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
69
Adoption
80
Community
90
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
182 days ago
Monthly downloads
29,958,752
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
29,958,752
Stars
1,308
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
•
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
1,001,702
Month daily avg
998,625
Momentum
+0.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.8
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
Apache-2.0
•
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
249 days ago
Total releases
72
Releases/year
6.5
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
174
Monthly downloads
29,958,752
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
94
Issue Burden
107.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
20.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
45.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
67d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
734.9K
Windows
7.8K
macOS
1.2K
Python Versions
3.10
34.7%
220.6K
3.12
26.6%
169.2K
3.11
23.0%
146.6K
3.9
7.9%
50.1K
3.7
7.9%
50.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
585.4K
US
2.
SG
31.4K
SG
3.
IE
24.5K
IE
4.
DE
18.8K
DE
5.
FR
10.2K
FR
6.
CA
9.5K
CA
7.
SA
8.3K
SA
8.
BE
7.9K
BE
9.
IN
7.2K
IN
10.
BR
6.8K
BR
Used By
229
- apache-airflow-providers-hashicorp
- juju
- cuga
- dda
- prophecy-libs
- qontract-reconcile
- ansible-modules-hashivault
- guardianhub
- kapitan
- rasa-pro
- kolla-ansible
- pydantic-settings-vault
- mistapi
- kalm
- navconfig
- mongo-charms-single-kernel
- vault-kv-client
- coreason-manifest
- vault-service
- coreason-ecosystem
- aixtools
- qubership-pipelines-common-library
- hashivaultlib
- laniakea-api-agent
- lemur
- rda-python-common
- notte-integrations
- kayobe
- mind-castle
- cnos-hashicorp
- cndi
- python-vault
- ogulcanaydogan-mcp-security-scanner
- vaultctl
- elvia-vault
- ops-cli
- nurtelecom-gras-library
- oc-cdtapi
- lakeops
- utg-base
- certmesh
- 12factor-vault
- coreason-meta-engineering
- sktmls
- skt
- badwolf
- otterdog
- aissemble-extensions-encryption-vault-python
- naturalis-vault
- apache-airflow-providers-sktvane
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
May 17, 2015
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
2.4.0
Total Releases
72
Contributors
174
Open PRs
40
Archived
No
Author
Ian Unruh
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh