No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pdbr has 8.9M monthly downloads and 352 GitHub stars. Version 0.9.7 supports Python <4.0.0,>=3.7.9, first published in 2020.
It is minimally maintained, last released in Jan 2026.
It is built on top of pyreadline3 and rich.
GitHub topics include pdb, debugger and debugger-color.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 8 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
47
Adoption
80
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
182 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,885,417
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
8,885,417
Stars
352
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
297,195
Month daily avg
296,181
Momentum
+0.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0.0,>=3.7.9
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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
182 days ago
Total releases
75
Releases/year
12.5
•
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
8
Monthly downloads
8,885,417
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
26
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
53.3%
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
284.9K
macOS
22
Windows
2
Python Versions
3.10
51.7%
147.4K
3.11
12.6%
36.0K
3.12
12.6%
35.9K
3.13
12.1%
34.5K
3.14
10.9%
31.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
284.4K
US
2.
SG
184
SG
3.
DE
163
DE
4.
GB
64
GB
5.
CN
32
CN
6.
BE
31
BE
7.
IT
28
IT
8.
HK
27
HK
9.
FR
26
FR
10.
CA
18
CA
Dependencies
2
- pyreadline3 <4.0.0,>=3.4.1
- rich
1 optional dependencies
- ipython[ipython]
Used By
0
Not used by any tracked packages
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
July 5, 2020
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
0.9.7
Total Releases
75
Contributors
8
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Can Sarigol
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh