No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
scikit-build has 1.3M monthly downloads and 534 GitHub stars. Version 0.19.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of distro, packaging and setuptools. It is used by 31 tracked packages, including allensdk, bow-client and bow-api.
GitHub topics include cpython, c-extension and c.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
59
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,252,244
•
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
1,252,244
Stars
534
Stars per 1k downloads
0.43
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
40,674
Month daily avg
41,741
Momentum
-2.6%
((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 License
•
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
13 days ago
Total releases
41
Releases/year
4.1
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
71
Monthly downloads
1,252,244
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
95
Issue Burden
309.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
196.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
56.8%
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
17.7K
Windows
2.4K
macOS
1.3K
Python Versions
3.12
36.8%
7.1K
3.10
17.9%
3.4K
3.11
17.7%
3.4K
3.13
16.1%
3.1K
3.14
11.5%
2.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
14.5K
US
2.
NL
1.0K
NL
3.
SG
769
SG
4.
CN
617
CN
5.
IE
609
IE
6.
DE
591
DE
7.
IL
553
IL
8.
GB
413
GB
9.
ID
407
ID
10.
IN
387
IN
Dependencies
5
- distro
- packaging
- setuptools >=42.0.0
- tomli
- wheel >=0.32.0
16 optional dependencies
- build[test]
- coverage[cov]
- cython[test]
- pip[test]
- pygments[docs]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[cov]
- pytest-mock[test]
- requests[test]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-issues[docs]
- sphinx-rtd-theme[docs]
- sphinxcontrib-moderncmakedomain[docs]
- ubelt[doctest]
- virtualenv[test]
- xdoctest[doctest]
Used By
31
- allensdk
- bow-client
- bow-api
- aihwkit
- uitestrunner-syberos
- torchrec-nightly-cpu
- gnat
- skbuild-conan
- alectio-sdk
- ctk-theme-builder
- tkextrafont
- ac-segmentation
- dstool
- deepray
- pyqgraf
- hhb
- impresso-commons
- sta-awscli
- torchrec-cpu
- minisat
- zebrafishblood
- texture-mapping
- dhllinalg
- spleenseg
- pygui-cython
- pyicarus
- qr-scangen
- dsu
- collageradiomics-core
- flag-scale
- qplayer
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
July 17, 2016
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.19.1
Total Releases
41
Contributors
71
Open PRs
21
Archived
No
Author
The scikit-build team
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
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