No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
protoc-gen-validate has 237K monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 1.3.3 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2021.
Its repository is archived, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of jinja2, protobuf and validate-email. It is used by 1 tracked package, including envoy-extproc-sdk.
GitHub topics include protoc, constraints and protoc-plugin.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
14
Popularity
78
Adoption
53
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
40 days ago
Monthly downloads
236,901
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
236,901
Stars
4,124
Stars per 1k downloads
17.41
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
5,861
Month daily avg
7,897
Momentum
-25.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
138 days ago
Total releases
14
Releases/year
2.6
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
164
Monthly downloads
236,901
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
69
Issue Burden
2.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
97d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
349
macOS
3
Python Versions
3.11
42.9%
145
3.12
31.1%
105
3.10
17.5%
59
3.14
7.1%
24
3.8
1.5%
5
Top Countries
1.
US
427
US
2.
IE
21
IE
3.
CA
5
CA
4.
CN
4
CN
5.
DE
4
DE
6.
NL
3
NL
7.
IN
2
IN
8.
NZ
2
NZ
9.
SG
2
SG
10.
PL
1
PL
Dependencies
3
- jinja2 >=2.11.1
- protobuf >=5.27.0
- validate-email >=1.3
Used By
1
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
March 15, 2021
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.3.3
Total Releases
14
Contributors
164
Open PRs
14
Archived
Yes
Author
Buf
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh