PyRank
pypa

packaging

Core utilities for Python packages
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

packaging has 2.1B monthly downloads and 738 GitHub stars. Version 26.2 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.

It is used by 8,174 tracked packages, including pytest, wheel and sglang.

Downloads
Day
67.5M
Week
474.5M
Month
2.1B
Stars
738
Forks
303
Issues
76
Version
26.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
64
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,100,706,742
• 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
2,100,706,742
Stars
738
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
67,790,795
Month daily avg
70,023,558
Momentum
-3.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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 OR BSD-2-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
73 days ago
Total releases
53
Releases/year
4.5
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
177
Monthly downloads
2,100,706,742
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
80
 
Issue Burden
103.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
58.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
68d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 49.6M
Windows 887.6K
macOS 532.0K

Python Versions

3.12
33.3% 15.7M
3.13
25.8% 12.2M
3.11
21.1% 9.9M
3.10
14.6% 6.9M
3.14
5.2% 2.5M

Top Countries

1. US US
35.0M
2. SG SG
4.1M
3. IN IN
2.7M
4. HK HK
1.4M
5. DE DE
1.3M
6. IE IE
1.1M
7. GB GB
684.5K
8. NL NL
665.7K
9. CA CA
551.8K
10. JP JP
499.3K

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
First Release
September 5, 2014
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
26.2
Total Releases
53
Contributors
177
Open PRs
43
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 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

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