No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
python-redis-lock has 1.1M monthly downloads and 570 GitHub stars. Version 4.0.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2013.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of redis. It is used by 21 tracked packages, including pyqlib, dramatiq-apscheduler and rediskit.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
57
Adoption
70
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
90 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,061,143
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
1,061,143
Stars
570
Stars per 1k downloads
0.54
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
34,818
Month daily avg
35,371
Momentum
-1.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
BSD-2-Clause
•
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
90 days ago
Total releases
20
Releases/year
1.6
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
23
Monthly downloads
1,061,143
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
54
Issue Burden
42.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.4%
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
9.7K
Windows
558
macOS
329
Python Versions
3.12
41.9%
4.0K
3.11
27.0%
2.6K
3.13
12.7%
1.2K
3.14
11.7%
1.1K
3.10
6.8%
651
Top Countries
1.
US
8.7K
US
2.
CN
200
CN
3.
IE
193
IE
4.
SK
192
SK
5.
HK
154
HK
6.
SG
143
SG
7.
FR
134
FR
8.
CA
130
CA
9.
DE
123
DE
10.
IN
105
IN
Dependencies
1
- redis >=2.10.0
1 optional dependencies
- django-redis[django]
Used By
21
Package Information
License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
October 25, 2013
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
4.0.1
Total Releases
20
Contributors
23
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh