No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
python-semantic-release has 1.6M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 10.6.1 supports Python ~=3.8, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is built on top of click, click-option-group and deprecated. It is used by 61 tracked packages, including baw, framework-m-studio and graph-sitter.
GitHub topics include semantic-release, release and tool.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
66
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,634,876
•
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
1,634,876
Stars
1,038
Stars per 1k downloads
0.63
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
50,498
Month daily avg
54,496
Momentum
-7.3%
((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
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
0 days ago
Total releases
262
Releases/year
23.9
•
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
139
Monthly downloads
1,634,876
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
80
Issue Burden
64.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
51.3%
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
27.4K
Windows
261
macOS
237
Python Versions
3.12
28.9%
7.6K
3.11
23.1%
6.0K
3.14
19.8%
5.2K
3.13
19.2%
5.0K
3.10
9.0%
2.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
21.9K
US
2.
DE
1.4K
DE
3.
NL
1.4K
NL
4.
IL
813
IL
5.
FR
612
FR
6.
CH
512
CH
7.
IE
486
IE
8.
SE
390
SE
9.
GB
313
GB
10.
CA
284
CA
Dependencies
13
- click ~=8.1.0
- click-option-group ~=0.5
- deprecated ~=1.2
- dotty-dict ~=1.3
- gitpython ~=3.0
- importlib-resources ~=6.0
- jinja2 ~=3.1
- pydantic ~=2.0
- python-gitlab <7.0.0,>=4.0.0
- requests ~=2.25
- rich ~=14.0
- shellingham ~=1.5
- tomlkit ~=0.13.0
29 optional dependencies
- build[build]
- coverage[test]
- filelock[test]
- flatdict[test]
- freezegun[test]
- furo[docs]
- mypy[mypy]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-clarity[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- pytest-env[test]
- pytest-lazy-fixtures[test]
- pytest-mock[test]
- pytest-order[test]
- pytest-pretty[test]
- pytest-xdist[test]
- pyyaml[test]
- requests-mock[test]
- responses[test]
- ruff[dev]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-autobuild[docs]
- sphinxcontrib-apidoc[docs]
- tomlkit[build]
- tox[dev]
- types-deprecated[mypy]
- types-pyyaml[mypy]
- types-requests[mypy]
Used By
61
- baw
- framework-m-studio
- graph-sitter
- ldimbenchmark
- modelsight
- mkdocs-newsletter
- flatehr
- nearc
- rubi
- one-updater
- torchcell
- pypeline-semantic-release
- glowprom
- bfiola-devtools
- ozon-api
- dtuhpc
- prom433
- breakout-garden-exporter
- chembox
- javelin-cli
- faag-cli
- eda-mds
- foxessprom
- bayesiannetworkx
- rerun-query
- dbt-mp
- cognite-databricks-utils
- botastico
- pull-request-codecommit
- fxtracker
- wdldoc
- meteocat
- cc-codechecker
- steam-stats
- gpt-readme-reader
- pptm
- pokehelpyer
- mealprep
- pydev-cli
- bayesianpia2
- colourpycker
- fx-backtester
- slade
- socceranalysis
- wakatime-leaderboards
- helpohelpo
- server-monitoring-made-easy
- compassist
- release-mate
- pycount-caseexample
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
July 27, 2015
Last Release
20 hr ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
10.6.1
Total Releases
262
Contributors
139
Open PRs
24
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
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