No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pep517 has 9.6M monthly downloads and 128 GitHub stars. Version 0.13.1 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2017.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2023.
It is built on top of importlib-metadata, tomli and zipp. It is used by 23 tracked packages, including zepben-protobuf, codemetapy and xtcryptosignals.
GitHub topics include packaging.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 879 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
47
Adoption
60
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
93 days ago
Monthly downloads
9,598,379
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
9,598,379
Stars
128
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
285,391
Month daily avg
319,946
Momentum
-10.8%
((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 License
•
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
972 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.8
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
83
Monthly downloads
9,598,379
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
74
Issue Burden
85.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
143.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
879d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
35.6K
Windows
248
macOS
201
Python Versions
3.11
57.4%
19.0K
3.10
23.4%
7.7K
3.12
10.4%
3.5K
3.9
5.7%
1.9K
3.14
3.1%
1.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
62.1K
US
2.
IE
20.9K
IE
3.
DE
2.0K
DE
4.
SG
1.6K
SG
5.
GB
1.0K
GB
6.
AU
675
AU
7.
BE
552
BE
8.
FR
527
FR
9.
ID
474
ID
10.
NL
462
NL
Dependencies
3
- importlib-metadata
- tomli >=1.1.0
- zipp
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
November 12, 2017
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.13.1
Total Releases
16
Contributors
83
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Thomas Kluyver
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh