No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
latexcodec has 2.3M monthly downloads and 30 GitHub stars. Version 3.0.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2011.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.
It is used by 16 tracked packages, including pybtex, perceval-quandela and bsg-ide.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 9 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
32
Adoption
60
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
384 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,259,992
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
2,259,992
Stars
30
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
42,825
Month daily avg
75,333
Momentum
-43.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
MIT
•
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
384 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
1.1
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
9
Monthly downloads
2,259,992
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
42
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
75.0%
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
20.3K
Windows
1.3K
macOS
671
Python Versions
3.12
39.7%
8.2K
3.10
23.7%
4.9K
3.11
22.4%
4.6K
3.13
9.1%
1.9K
3.14
5.0%
1.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
18.6K
US
2.
SG
667
SG
3.
IE
664
IE
4.
GB
391
GB
5.
CN
356
CN
6.
DE
355
DE
7.
BE
341
BE
8.
HK
215
HK
9.
FR
195
FR
10.
NL
164
NL
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
May 26, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
3.0.1
Total Releases
17
Contributors
9
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Matthias C. M. Troffaes
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh