No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
mitogen has 178K monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 0.3.50, first published in 2018.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is used by 2 tracked packages, including inmanta-module-mitogen and paracrine.
GitHub topics include devops, infrastructure and ansible.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
70
Adoption
62
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
17 days ago
Monthly downloads
177,578
•
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
177,578
Stars
2,515
Stars per 1k downloads
14.16
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
5,447
Month daily avg
5,919
Momentum
-8.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,>=2.4
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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
17 days ago
Total releases
67
Releases/year
8.4
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
48
Monthly downloads
177,578
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
57
Issue Burden
128.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.0%
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
2.0K
macOS
13
Python Versions
3.11
34.2%
646
3.12
29.8%
562
3.13
14.1%
267
3.14
12.6%
238
3.10
9.3%
175
Top Countries
1.
US
1.5K
US
2.
RU
160
RU
3.
DE
95
DE
4.
FI
94
FI
5.
GB
74
GB
6.
FR
64
FR
7.
EE
28
EE
8.
CH
26
CH
9.
PL
20
PL
10.
BE
19
BE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
2
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
July 9, 2018
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.3.50
Total Releases
67
Contributors
48
Open PRs
48
Archived
No
Author
David Wilson
Python Versions
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh