No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pygit2 has 5.7M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.19.3 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2012.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of cffi. It is used by 236 tracked packages, including scmrepo, kfactory and gdsfactory.
GitHub topics include git.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
71
Adoption
70
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,740,215
•
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
5,740,215
Stars
1,725
Stars per 1k downloads
0.30
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
173,882
Month daily avg
191,340
Momentum
-9.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
GPLv2 with linking exception
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
23 days ago
Total releases
88
Releases/year
6.1
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
228
Monthly downloads
5,740,215
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
88
Issue Burden
108.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
56.3%
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
75.1K
Windows
9.4K
macOS
2.5K
Python Versions
3.12
41.7%
33.5K
3.13
20.3%
16.3K
3.10
16.5%
13.3K
3.11
13.8%
11.1K
3.14
7.7%
6.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
62.5K
US
2.
KR
4.1K
KR
3.
DE
4.1K
DE
4.
SG
2.8K
SG
5.
IE
1.8K
IE
6.
GB
1.4K
GB
7.
NL
1.3K
NL
8.
BE
1.1K
BE
9.
FR
773
FR
10.
JP
626
JP
Dependencies
1
- cffi >=2.0
Used By
236
- scmrepo
- kfactory
- gdsfactory
- guarddog
- gftools
- verify-everything
- craft-application
- cpp-linter
- taf
- griptape-nodes-engine
- jolt
- marvisx-cli
- contentctl
- contextual-engine
- tartufo
- indent
- chunkhound
- argot-engine
- viadot2
- rbtr
- kodit
- shortcake
- ruyi
- contentctl-ng
- atla-insights
- go-astty
- nodestone
- patch-manager
- deckz
- osv
- git-project
- brassy
- benchbuild
- zabbixci
- wcgw
- skilleter-modules
- exponent-run
- packaging-version-git
- graph-sitter
- dbx-deploy
- djehuty
- tugboat-py
- alteza
- oper8
- almanack
- qgitc
- attune-project-api
- c7n-policystream
- quarto-graft
- uv-release-monorepo
Package Information
License
GPLv2 with linking exception
First Release
February 8, 2012
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.19.3
Total Releases
88
Contributors
228
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp33
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp310
pp311
pp37
pp38
pp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh