No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
parallel-ssh has 255K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 2.16.0.post1, first published in 2013.
It is minimally maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Oct 2025.
It is built on top of gevent, ssh-python and ssh2-python. It is used by 14 tracked packages, including addftool, cassandra-medusa and bagua-cuda115.
GitHub topics include parallel-ssh, ssh and parallel.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
65
Adoption
54
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
242 days ago
Monthly downloads
255,015
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
255,015
Stars
1,280
Stars per 1k downloads
5.02
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
7,454
Month daily avg
8,500
Momentum
-12.3%
((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
LGPL-2.1-only
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
266 days ago
Total releases
101
Releases/year
7.5
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
19
Monthly downloads
255,015
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
49
Issue Burden
7.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
23.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.4%
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
3.5K
Windows
18
macOS
1
Python Versions
3.12
55.5%
1.8K
3.10
23.7%
769
3.11
17.1%
556
3.9
3.1%
102
3.13
0.6%
19
Top Countries
1.
US
2.4K
US
2.
GB
394
GB
3.
FR
173
FR
4.
AU
140
AU
5.
DE
110
DE
6.
CN
64
CN
7.
BE
49
BE
8.
IE
43
IE
9.
CH
37
CH
10.
FI
31
FI
Dependencies
3
- gevent >=1.3.0
- ssh-python >=1.2.0
- ssh2-python >=1.2.0
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
LGPL-2.1-only
First Release
January 25, 2013
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
2.16.0.post1
Total Releases
101
Contributors
19
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Panos Kittenis
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp26
cp27
cp33
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh