No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pystache has 3.9M monthly downloads and 19 GitHub stars. Version 0.6.8 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2009.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2025.
It is built on top of importlib-metadata. It is used by 95 tracked packages, including arize-phoenix, arize-phoenix-evals and databricks-sql.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 3 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
25
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
475 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,900,144
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
3,900,144
Stars
19
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
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
120,785
Month daily avg
130,005
Momentum
-7.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
Not specified
•
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
475 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
1.1
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
3
Monthly downloads
3,900,144
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
35
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
60.0%
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
32.9K
Windows
413
macOS
412
Python Versions
2.7
35.9%
13.8K
3.12
20.2%
7.7K
3.11
17.4%
6.7K
3.13
13.7%
5.3K
3.9
12.7%
4.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
29.2K
US
2.
IE
2.2K
IE
3.
SG
1.9K
SG
4.
CA
1.9K
CA
5.
GB
1.8K
GB
6.
JP
1.8K
JP
7.
AU
1.4K
AU
8.
FI
1.4K
FI
9.
IN
1.2K
IN
10.
DE
904
DE
Dependencies
1
- importlib-metadata >=4.6
9 optional dependencies
- coverage[cov]
- coverage-python-version[cov]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- recommonmark[doc]
- sphinx[doc]
- sphinx-git[doc]
- sphinx-rtd-theme[doc]
- sphinxcontrib-apidoc[doc]
Used By
95
- arize-phoenix
- arize-phoenix-evals
- databricks-sql
- freeplay
- solace-agent-mesh
- ifctester
- lesscode-flask
- epab
- pycco
- django-mustache
- wordops
- reccmp
- os-apply-config
- acetone-nnet
- topicexplorer
- render-template
- immuneml
- phases
- custom-phoenix
- instack-undercloud
- 2keys
- rsfc
- cp-template
- pandoc-mustache
- sidekick-agent-python
- docdown
- forge-python-sdk
- piecrust
- gitflow-manager
- peachapisec-slack
- wq-db
- checkit-dashboard
- cis-interface
- orchestrate
- wistx-mcp
- apache-otava
- lib-testtoolkit-python
- ctrlb-heimdall
- powerconf
- plockchain
- statik
- zalando-deploy-cli
- mcpx-eval
- ligo
- process-reporting
- fidelity-helper
- generoo
- cppiniter
- code-snippet
- ampersand
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
November 13, 2009
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.6.8
Total Releases
19
Contributors
3
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.8
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