No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
macholib has 2.4M monthly downloads and 102 GitHub stars. Version 1.16.4, first published in 2005.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.
It is used by 34 tracked packages, including pyinstaller, delocate and repairwheel.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 3 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
41
Adoption
80
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
186 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,380,838
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
2,380,838
Stars
102
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
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
82,516
Month daily avg
79,361
Momentum
+4.0%
((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
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
227 days ago
Total releases
27
Releases/year
1.3
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
3
Monthly downloads
2,380,838
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
45
Issue Burden
176.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.3%
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
macOS
27.5K
Linux
22.1K
Windows
1.7K
Python Versions
3.11
30.5%
14.1K
3.12
25.4%
11.8K
3.13
16.7%
7.7K
3.10
16.3%
7.6K
3.14
11.1%
5.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
48.8K
US
2.
CN
487
CN
3.
IN
470
IN
4.
IE
439
IE
5.
DE
420
DE
6.
JP
336
JP
7.
SG
336
SG
8.
SE
329
SE
9.
HK
258
HK
10.
GB
256
GB
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
34
- pyinstaller
- delocate
- repairwheel
- py2app
- castlabs-evs
- mobsf
- aitracker
- structurefinder
- abicheck
- smart-mirror
- frat-brain
- justrunalready
- torbot
- generoo
- ipachecker
- search-in-api
- wp-forge
- bughunter-akabarki76
- project-chatter
- terraenv
- layernode
- rvtools-python
- machotools
- terminalapplication
- osxcollector
- deken
- cs489-pyinstaller-testable-1
- custom-fork-pyinstaller-1
- w3mo-kivy
- softpack-core
- slick-app
- akeyless-ansible
- standalone001pyarmor
- pyslow2fast
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
December 9, 2005
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
1.16.4
Total Releases
27
Contributors
3
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Ronald Oussoren
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh