No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pylint-django has 2.1M monthly downloads and 622 GitHub stars. Version 2.7.0 supports Python <4.0,>=3.9, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jan 2026.
It is built on top of pylint and pylint-plugin-utils. It is used by 12 tracked packages, including prospector, edx-lint and itw-python-builder.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 168 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
59
Adoption
70
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
18 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,122,166
•
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
2,122,166
Stars
622
Stars per 1k downloads
0.29
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
66,161
Month daily avg
70,739
Momentum
-6.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=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
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
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
187 days ago
Total releases
57
Releases/year
4.5
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
65
Monthly downloads
2,122,166
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
109.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
53.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
168d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
20.9K
Windows
122
macOS
59
Python Versions
3.12
35.0%
6.2K
3.11
25.1%
4.5K
3.13
15.7%
2.8K
3.14
12.6%
2.2K
3.10
11.5%
2.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
16.9K
US
2.
SG
740
SG
3.
BE
714
BE
4.
DE
364
DE
5.
GB
315
GB
6.
NL
296
NL
7.
IE
222
IE
8.
FI
188
FI
9.
IN
188
IN
10.
AU
185
AU
Dependencies
2
- pylint <5,>=3.0
- pylint-plugin-utils >=0.8
1 optional dependencies
- django[with-django]
Package Information
License
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
First Release
October 25, 2013
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.7.0
Total Releases
57
Contributors
65
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Carl Crowder
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh