No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pkgconfig has 6.3M monthly downloads and 64 GitHub stars. Version 1.6.0 supports Python <4.0.0,>=3.9.0, first published in 2013.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is used by 26 tracked packages, including passagemath-standard-no-symbolics, sagemath and sagemath-standard.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
39
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
122 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,290,609
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
6,290,609
Stars
64
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
159,957
Month daily avg
209,687
Momentum
-23.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0.0,>=3.9.0
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
122 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.2
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
15
Monthly downloads
6,290,609
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
58
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
65.2%
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
90.0K
Windows
3.1K
macOS
2.2K
Python Versions
3.12
34.8%
30.1K
3.10
22.0%
19.0K
3.14
21.1%
18.2K
3.11
11.8%
10.2K
3.13
10.3%
8.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
80.0K
US
2.
SG
4.7K
SG
3.
IE
1.8K
IE
4.
DE
1.7K
DE
5.
GB
1.5K
GB
6.
IN
883
IN
7.
KR
806
KR
8.
NL
777
NL
9.
HK
722
HK
10.
CN
512
CN
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
26
- passagemath-standard-no-symbolics
- sagemath
- sagemath-standard
- codec-video-prep-legacy-exact
- onionshare-cli
- hotdoc
- sagelite
- edipack2py
- pmipyvips
- firedrake
- consoleme
- dataset-format-benchmark
- virtualfish
- sec-certs
- dataset-image-converter
- candie-kit
- dumbcpm
- pinefarm
- jacinle
- sigrok
- kvix
- merlintf-mri
- v2dl3
- wsctrl
- fhir-fast-parser
- edipy2
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
August 12, 2013
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
1.6.0
Total Releases
16
Contributors
15
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Matthias Vogelgesang
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh