No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
podman-compose has 271K monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 1.6.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2019.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of python-dotenv and pyyaml. It is used by 7 tracked packages, including containers-sugar, em-health and casm.
GitHub topics include podman, docker-compose and linux-containers.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
80
Adoption
84
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
271,209
•
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
271,209
Stars
6,140
Stars per 1k downloads
22.64
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
9,968
Month daily avg
9,040
Momentum
+10.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
GPL-2.0-only
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
33 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
2.5
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
201
Monthly downloads
271,209
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
81
Issue Burden
55.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
7.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.3%
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
2.6K
Windows
103
macOS
43
Python Versions
3.12
46.7%
1.2K
3.13
28.0%
723
3.11
10.1%
262
3.14
9.9%
256
3.9
5.3%
136
Top Countries
1.
US
2.0K
US
2.
IN
118
IN
3.
DE
116
DE
4.
JP
67
JP
5.
CN
34
CN
6.
SG
32
SG
7.
GB
29
GB
8.
CA
28
CA
9.
FR
24
FR
10.
HU
23
HU
Dependencies
2
4 optional dependencies
- coverage[devel]
- parameterized[devel]
- pre-commit[devel]
- ruff[devel]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
GPL-2.0-only
First Release
August 21, 2019
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.6.0
Total Releases
17
Contributors
201
Open PRs
28
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh