No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
kafka has 313K monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 1.3.5, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2017.
It is used by 18 tracked packages, including plexflow, hawk-soard and mercury-toolkit.
GitHub topics include kafka.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 3186 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
82
Adoption
54
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
313,139
•
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
313,139
Stars
5,900
Stars per 1k downloads
18.84
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
8,175
Month daily avg
10,438
Momentum
-21.7%
((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
Apache License 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
3194 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
1.6
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
226
Monthly downloads
313,139
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
59
Issue Burden
2.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
3186d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
5.9K
Windows
25
macOS
10
Python Versions
3.7
50.4%
2.7K
3.11
21.0%
1.1K
2.7
12.4%
673
3.12
11.1%
601
3.9
5.0%
273
Top Countries
1.
US
3.4K
US
2.
IN
907
IN
3.
SG
762
SG
4.
CN
490
CN
5.
DE
157
DE
6.
NL
121
NL
7.
IE
35
IE
8.
RU
20
RU
9.
CA
14
CA
10.
MY
10
MY
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
February 16, 2016
Last Release
8 years ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.3.5
Total Releases
17
Contributors
226
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Dana Powers
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh