No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
portalocker has 65.6M monthly downloads and 326 GitHub stars. Version 3.2.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2011.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.
It is built on top of pywin32. It is used by 341 tracked packages, including qdrant-client, bubus and crewai.
GitHub topics include locking, lock and distributed.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 106 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
52
Adoption
80
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
281 days ago
Monthly downloads
65,580,004
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
65,580,004
Stars
326
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
•
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
2,198,734
Month daily avg
2,186,000
Momentum
+0.6%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
387 days ago
Total releases
46
Releases/year
3.0
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
22
Monthly downloads
65,580,004
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
46
Issue Burden
3.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
106d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.4M
Windows
61.2K
macOS
10.6K
Python Versions
3.12
38.0%
551.7K
3.11
21.1%
306.6K
3.13
21.1%
305.7K
3.10
16.0%
231.6K
3.14
3.9%
56.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
1.2M
US
2.
SG
58.0K
SG
3.
NL
57.1K
NL
4.
IN
49.4K
IN
5.
IE
24.5K
IE
6.
DE
24.3K
DE
7.
JP
18.9K
JP
8.
FR
18.2K
FR
9.
GB
17.4K
GB
10.
CA
15.1K
CA
Dependencies
1
- pywin32 >=226
12 optional dependencies
- coverage-conditional-plugin[tests]
- portalocker[docs]
- portalocker[tests]
- pytest[tests]
- pytest-cov[tests]
- pytest-mypy[tests]
- pytest-rerunfailures[tests]
- pytest-timeout[tests]
- redis[redis]
- sphinx[tests]
- types-pywin32[tests]
- types-redis[tests]
Used By
341
- qdrant-client
- bubus
- crewai
- deepeval
- azure-cli-telemetry
- sacrebleu
- concurrent-log-handler
- crewai-core
- nebius
- arcade-core
- fal
- rasa
- amulet-core
- ncnn
- sfctl
- exasol-integration-test-docker-environment
- pccm
- cachier
- recce
- bubus-py310x
- codechecker
- docassemble-base
- browser-act-cli
- pytest-terraform
- isaacsim-core
- docassemble-webapp
- recce-nightly
- glmocr
- rasa-pro
- piia-engram
- superlocalmemory
- hedtools
- py4web
- evo-hq-cli
- cliany-site
- scraper-lib-rmp
- cobaya
- omero-py
- openkb
- defog
- pysat
- socar-api
- distilabel
- griptape-nodes-engine
- piperider-nightly
- scribe-mcp
- aicage
- odibi
- agex-cli
- nbsite
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
February 23, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
3.2.0
Total Releases
46
Contributors
22
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh