No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
powerline-shell has 522K monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 0.7.0, first published in 2017.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2018.
It is built on top of argparse.
GitHub topics include powerline, theme and color-scheme.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1467 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
81
Adoption
57
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1383 days ago
Monthly downloads
522,049
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
522,049
Stars
6,288
Stars per 1k downloads
12.04
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
310
Month daily avg
17,402
Momentum
-98.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
2851 days ago
Total releases
26
Releases/year
2.9
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
68
Monthly downloads
522,049
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
63
Issue Burden
13.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
9.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1467d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
552
Python Versions
3.12
97.5%
538
3.8
1.1%
6
2.7
0.7%
4
3.7
0.7%
4
Top Countries
1.
US
554
US
Dependencies
1
Used By
0
Not used by any tracked packages
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
September 3, 2017
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
0.7.0
Total Releases
26
Contributors
68
Open PRs
50
Archived
No
Author
Buck Ryan
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.3
3.4
3.5
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh