No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
kconfiglib has 1.6M monthly downloads and 510 GitHub stars. Version 14.1.0, first published in 2017.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2020.
It is used by 16 tracked packages, including pigweed, spl-core and kspl.
GitHub topics include kconfig, kbuild and kernel.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
60
Adoption
60
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2349 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,582,426
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
1,582,426
Stars
510
Stars per 1k downloads
0.32
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
38,635
Month daily avg
52,748
Momentum
-26.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7,!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*
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
2349 days ago
Total releases
164
Releases/year
18.7
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
12
Monthly downloads
1,582,426
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
58.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
8.1K
Windows
611
macOS
405
Python Versions
3.12
45.4%
4.0K
3.11
24.7%
2.2K
3.10
18.1%
1.6K
3.8
7.4%
652
3.13
4.4%
387
Top Countries
1.
US
7.2K
US
2.
CN
284
CN
3.
UA
254
UA
4.
GB
194
GB
5.
AU
175
AU
6.
DE
122
DE
7.
VN
115
VN
8.
FR
86
FR
9.
HK
70
HK
10.
CA
65
CA
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
ISC
First Release
September 23, 2017
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
6 years ago
Latest Version
14.1.0
Total Releases
164
Contributors
12
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
Ulf "Ulfalizer" Magnusson
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh