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looseversion

A backwards/forwards-compatible fork of distutils.version.LooseVersion
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

looseversion has 1.7M monthly downloads and 20 GitHub stars. Version 1.3.0, first published in 2022.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2023.

It is used by 60 tracked packages, including nipype, salt and datalad.

Downloads
Day
52.0K
Week
389.9K
Month
1.7M
Stars
20
Forks
2
Issues
0
Version
1.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
45
Popularity
23
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
128 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,740,724
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
1,740,724
Stars
20
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
55,693
Month daily avg
58,024
Momentum
-4.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
Not specified
• 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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1097 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
2.2
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
2
Monthly downloads
1,740,724
• 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
24
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
100.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
969d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 39.4K
Windows 4.2K
macOS 2.1K

Python Versions

3.11
41.6% 18.3K
3.12
25.3% 11.1K
3.14
14.0% 6.2K
3.10
10.4% 4.6K
3.13
8.8% 3.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
40.9K
2. SG SG
580
3. NL NL
575
4. IN IN
451
5. DE DE
447
6. GB GB
430
7. HK HK
374
8. CN CN
342
9. FR FR
298
10. CZ CZ
186

Package Information

License
Unknown
First Release
May 11, 2022
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
1.3.0
Total Releases
9
Contributors
2
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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