No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
kfp-pipeline-spec has 4.7M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 2.16.1 supports Python 3.9.0+, first published in 2020.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of protobuf. It is used by 4 tracked packages, including kfp, simple-kfp-task and mongs-kfp.
GitHub topics include kubeflow-pipelines, mlops and kubeflow.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
80
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,657,540
•
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
4,657,540
Stars
4,169
Stars per 1k downloads
0.90
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
151,850
Month daily avg
155,251
Momentum
-2.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9.0
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
63 days ago
Total releases
40
Releases/year
7.1
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
629
Monthly downloads
4,657,540
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
100
Issue Burden
42.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
23.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
62d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
111.5K
macOS
220
Windows
60
Python Versions
3.11
42.2%
44.0K
3.8
25.3%
26.4K
3.12
12.8%
13.3K
3.9
10.5%
10.9K
3.10
9.2%
9.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
68.3K
US
2.
JP
26.0K
JP
3.
BE
5.5K
BE
4.
SG
3.3K
SG
5.
NL
2.1K
NL
6.
DE
1.6K
DE
7.
CA
1.2K
CA
8.
GB
885
GB
9.
IE
319
IE
10.
AU
298
AU
Dependencies
1
- protobuf <7.0,>=6.31.1
Used By
4
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache 2.0
First Release
November 10, 2020
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
Yesterday
Latest Version
2.16.1
Total Releases
40
Contributors
629
Open PRs
236
Archived
No
Author
google
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh