No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyroute2 has 1.7M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.9.6 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of win-inet-pton. It is used by 63 tracked packages, including aiodiscover, os-vif and neutron.
GitHub topics include netlink, rtnl and namespace.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
66
Adoption
80
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
25 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,672,837
•
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
1,672,837
Stars
1,063
Stars per 1k downloads
0.64
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
56,057
Month daily avg
55,761
Momentum
+0.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=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 OR Apache-2.0
•
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
82 days ago
Total releases
122
Releases/year
9.2
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
162
Monthly downloads
1,672,837
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
90
Issue Burden
146.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
19.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
58.7%
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
22.7K
macOS
246
Windows
34
Python Versions
3.13
38.1%
8.3K
3.12
31.4%
6.9K
3.11
15.4%
3.4K
3.14
9.1%
2.0K
3.9
6.0%
1.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
16.4K
US
2.
FI
1.7K
FI
3.
DE
796
DE
4.
SG
595
SG
5.
IL
341
IL
6.
FR
328
FR
7.
NL
259
NL
8.
IN
252
IN
9.
GB
247
GB
10.
CA
221
CA
Dependencies
1
26 optional dependencies
- aafigure[docs]
- build[docs]
- build[dev]
- docutils[docs]
- findimports[dev]
- flake8[dev]
- netaddr[dev]
- nox[repo]
- pre-commit[docs]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pytest[docs]
- pytest[repo]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest-asyncio[docs]
- pytest-asyncio[dev]
- pytest-cov[repo]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- pytest-html[repo]
- pytest-profiling[dev]
- pytest-timeout[dev]
- pytest-timeout[repo]
- setuptools[repo]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-code-include[docs]
- twine[docs]
- twine[dev]
Used By
63
- aiodiscover
- os-vif
- neutron
- unifi-discovery
- tcconfig
- octavia
- magnum-cluster-api
- popoto-shell
- winload
- pypowerwall
- hhd
- wireguard-tools
- kuryr-lib
- cyclarity-in-vehicle-sdk
- ovn-bgp-agent
- ifstate
- networking-bagpipe
- hid-tools
- neutron-fwaas
- os-net-config
- kathara
- lbr-testsuite
- assemblyline-v3-service
- hysn-firecracker-python
- mprov-jobserver
- trove
- otupy
- tacker
- voxutils
- p4net
- zun
- pim-dm
- atcd
- wireguard4netns
- dynadock
- simplenetlink
- source-query-proxy
- vpp-vrouter
- rosh
- yslow
- pyperf2
- vmark-node
- network-manager-provider
- infiniguard-api
- vnet-manager
- sinfonia-tier3
- connectivity-check
- wemulate
- isimud
- zelus-route-manager
Package Information
License
GPL-2.0-or-later OR Apache-2.0
First Release
April 26, 2013
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.9.6
Total Releases
122
Contributors
162
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
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