No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pefile has 6.8M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2024.8.26 supports Python 3.6.0+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2024.
It is used by 211 tracked packages, including pyinstaller, cle and delvewheel.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 675 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
73
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,751,152
•
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
6,751,152
Stars
2,053
Stars per 1k downloads
0.30
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
227,306
Month daily avg
225,038
Momentum
+1.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6.0
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
679 days ago
Total releases
14
Releases/year
1.4
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
77
Monthly downloads
6,751,152
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
78
Issue Burden
26.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
675d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Windows
81.4K
Linux
54.9K
macOS
3.9K
Python Versions
3.12
28.1%
35.8K
3.11
26.0%
33.1K
3.14
19.9%
25.3K
3.13
16.6%
21.1K
3.10
9.5%
12.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
96.3K
US
2.
CN
9.6K
CN
3.
IN
3.0K
IN
4.
JP
2.5K
JP
5.
DE
2.2K
DE
6.
IE
2.2K
IE
7.
SG
1.9K
SG
8.
BR
1.8K
BR
9.
KR
1.7K
KR
10.
HK
1.5K
HK
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
211
- pyinstaller
- cle
- delvewheel
- edk2-pytool-extensions
- abi3audit
- dnfile
- repairwheel
- scancode-toolkit
- viv-utils
- volatility3
- assemblyline-v4-service
- flare-capa
- malduck
- flare-floss
- py2exe
- cape-parsers
- atomicshop
- speakeasy-emulator-refined
- fluid-labels
- autoit-ripper
- sflock2
- icoextract
- malstruct
- mwcp
- malwoverview
- epab
- python-lancelot
- virt-firmware
- debloat
- assemblyline-service-utilities
- bindepend
- plaso
- capesolo
- thug
- scancode-toolkit-mini
- multidecoder
- dalineunit
- unplayplay
- unipacker
- pytola-dev
- sdbtool
- unpy2exe
- uswid
- dragodis
- itchclaim
- hemspect
- deglyph
- flaresolverr
- detectiq
- wizwalker
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
March 28, 2016
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
2024.8.26
Total Releases
14
Contributors
77
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
Ero Carrera
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh