No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
53
Adoption
58
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1346 days ago
Monthly downloads
723,615
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
723,615
Stars
280
Stars per 1k downloads
0.39
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
21,706
Month daily avg
24,120
Momentum
-10.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD
•
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
1740 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
0.5
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
20
Monthly downloads
723,615
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
66
Issue Burden
67.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
394d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
13.6K
Windows
369
macOS
320
Python Versions
3.7
50.6%
6.0K
3.11
14.1%
1.7K
3.14
12.9%
1.5K
3.12
12.4%
1.5K
3.10
10.0%
1.2K
Top Countries
1.
FR
5.6K
FR
2.
US
4.9K
US
3.
CA
592
CA
4.
MQ
568
MQ
5.
RE
552
RE
6.
CN
438
CN
7.
GB
341
GB
8.
UA
263
UA
9.
ES
201
ES
10.
DE
167
DE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
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Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
October 13, 2016
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
0.6
Total Releases
5
Contributors
20
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
pySerial-team
Python Versions
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh