No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
patch-ng has 4.3M monthly downloads and 40 GitHub stars. Version 1.19.1 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2019.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is used by 24 tracked packages, including conan, aqtinstall and cycode.
GitHub topics include diff, patch and parse.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 4 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
32
Adoption
80
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
271 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,339,054
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
4,339,054
Stars
40
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
147,292
Month daily avg
144,635
Momentum
+1.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
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
74 days ago
Total releases
9
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
4
Monthly downloads
4,339,054
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
40
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
44.4%
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
49.1K
Windows
11.5K
macOS
6.1K
Python Versions
3.12
38.4%
23.2K
3.11
18.8%
11.3K
3.14
17.0%
10.3K
3.10
14.7%
8.9K
3.13
11.1%
6.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
50.7K
US
2.
NL
4.8K
NL
3.
DE
2.4K
DE
4.
GB
1.5K
GB
5.
IE
1.2K
IE
6.
SG
1.1K
SG
7.
FR
687
FR
8.
RU
493
RU
9.
CN
481
CN
10.
CA
423
CA
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
October 10, 2019
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
1.19.1
Total Releases
9
Contributors
4
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Conan.io
Python Versions
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh