No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pylint-plugin-utils has 3.7M monthly downloads and 25 GitHub stars. Version 0.9.0 supports Python <4.0,>=3.9, first published in 2013.
It is minimally maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2025.
It is built on top of pylint. It is used by 16 tracked packages, including pylint-django, pylint-pydantic and pylint-odoo.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
30
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
238 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,722,710
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
3,722,710
Stars
25
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
115,085
Month daily avg
124,090
Momentum
-7.3%
((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
GPL-2.0-or-later
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
378 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
1.3
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
14
Monthly downloads
3,722,710
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
57
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
116.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
139d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
29.7K
Windows
195
macOS
72
Python Versions
3.12
33.7%
8.8K
3.11
25.3%
6.6K
3.13
14.5%
3.8K
3.10
13.7%
3.6K
3.14
12.7%
3.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
24.3K
US
2.
DE
1.7K
DE
3.
NL
1.3K
NL
4.
SG
879
SG
5.
BE
724
BE
6.
GB
567
GB
7.
ES
502
ES
8.
IE
454
IE
9.
FI
299
FI
10.
CN
219
CN
Dependencies
1
- pylint >=1.7
Package Information
License
GPL-2.0-or-later
First Release
October 25, 2013
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
0.9.0
Total Releases
17
Contributors
14
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Carl Crowder
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh