No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
referencing has 502.5M monthly downloads and 53 GitHub stars. Version 0.37.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2022.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2025.
It is built on top of attrs, rpds-py and typing-extensions. It is used by 394 tracked packages, including jsonschema, jsonschema-specifications and jsonschema-path.
GitHub topics include jsonschema, asyncapi and hypermedia.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 252 days despite active commits
- Moderate bus factor: only 8 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
38
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
502,527,933
•
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
502,527,933
Stars
53
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
16,107,484
Month daily avg
16,750,931
Momentum
-3.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
266 days ago
Total releases
108
Releases/year
29.8
•
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
8
Monthly downloads
502,527,933
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
55
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
252d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
10.7M
Windows
267.9K
macOS
149.9K
Python Versions
3.12
36.4%
3.8M
3.11
23.3%
2.5M
3.10
18.8%
2.0M
3.13
16.2%
1.7M
3.14
5.3%
558.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
8.2M
US
2.
IN
516.1K
IN
3.
IE
334.9K
IE
4.
SG
304.5K
SG
5.
GB
256.2K
GB
6.
DE
254.2K
DE
7.
NL
253.2K
NL
8.
JP
123.4K
JP
9.
CA
90.9K
CA
10.
BR
66.3K
BR
Dependencies
3
- attrs >=22.2.0
- rpds-py >=0.7.0
- typing-extensions >=4.4.0
Used By
394
- jsonschema
- jsonschema-specifications
- jsonschema-path
- jupyter-events
- openapi-schema-validator
- types-jsonschema
- singer-sdk
- airbyte-cdk
- ansible-lint
- mistral-vibe
- aider-chat
- metricflow
- jsonschema-spec
- clearml
- anki-release
- snakemake
- kubernetes-validate
- gpt-researcher
- jsonschema-gentypes
- referencing-loaders
- stac-validator
- bowtie-json-schema
- stac-valid
- changedetection-io
- panther-analysis-tool
- mdit
- jsonschemata
- pyserials
- bloomerp
- pulser-core
- oarepo
- ocaya
- controlman
- betty
- coworld
- neuroconv
- tidas-tools
- dmesh-sdk
- nextstrain-augur
- pyweclapp
- crl-datacube
- h-api
- swarmkit-schema
- devflux-aider-code
- nava-rebar
- cneura-ai
- pytorch-image-translation-models
- jinja2-jsonschema
- openssl-encrypt
- agenda-intelligence-md
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
November 21, 2022
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.37.0
Total Releases
108
Contributors
8
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh