No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pytest-xdist has 144.5M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.8.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2010.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2025.
It is built on top of execnet and pytest. It is used by 292 tracked packages, including pytest-homeassistant-custom-component, deepeval and seleniumbase.
GitHub topics include pytest and pytest-plugin.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 363 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
70
Adoption
90
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
144,529,104
•
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
144,529,104
Stars
1,870
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
5,525,347
Month daily avg
4,817,637
Momentum
+14.7%
((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
MIT
•
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
370 days ago
Total releases
71
Releases/year
4.3
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
194
Monthly downloads
144,529,104
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
86
Issue Burden
149.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
24.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
72.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
363d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
4.2M
Windows
46.1K
macOS
40.0K
Python Versions
3.12
55.9%
2.3M
3.10
18.8%
786.5K
3.11
11.4%
476.5K
3.13
8.9%
372.3K
3.14
5.0%
208.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
3.9M
US
2.
IE
98.8K
IE
3.
HK
60.8K
HK
4.
DE
55.6K
DE
5.
SG
49.3K
SG
6.
IN
30.6K
IN
7.
NL
21.8K
NL
8.
GB
20.8K
GB
9.
FR
18.6K
FR
10.
JP
11.0K
JP
Dependencies
2
3 optional dependencies
- filelock[testing]
- psutil[psutil]
- setproctitle[setproctitle]
Used By
292
- pytest-homeassistant-custom-component
- deepeval
- seleniumbase
- pytest-ansible
- tox-ansible
- azdev
- testit-adapter-pytest
- atdd
- eth-brownie
- pytest-xdist-worker-stats
- pytest-terraform
- datajunction
- changedetection-io
- aspidites
- jarvis-ai-assistant
- crackerjack
- pytest-splunk-addon
- codemie-test-harness
- posit-vip
- liveramp-automation
- vivarium-testing-utils
- pytest-shared-session-scope
- checks-superstaq
- tigrbl-tests
- pyfltr
- mwcp
- pytest-libiio
- vresto
- abilian-devtools
- pyleniumio
- baw
- pytest-homeassistant-custom-component-framework
- pytest-logikal
- autonomy-dev
- houmao
- wifi-densepose
- pptagent
- vtx-coding-agent
- podcastfy
- rrtv-httprunner
- appworld
- agentops-cockpit
- httptesting
- diracx-testing
- nlsq
- axosyslog-light
- apppilot
- ultrasphere
- bananalyzer
- spl2-testing-framework
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
January 18, 2010
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
3.8.0
Total Releases
71
Contributors
194
Open PRs
31
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh