No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
scons has 955K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 4.10.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.
It is used by 25 tracked packages, including enscons, apio and miniscons.
GitHub topics include build-tool, python-3-6 and scons.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 217 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
72
Adoption
79
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
955,097
•
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
955,097
Stars
2,397
Stars per 1k downloads
2.51
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
33,764
Month daily avg
31,837
Momentum
+6.1%
((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
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
232 days ago
Total releases
32
Releases/year
2.5
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
120
Monthly downloads
955,097
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
88
Issue Burden
264.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
28.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
34.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
217d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
16.5K
Windows
3.2K
macOS
2.8K
Python Versions
3.14
53.5%
11.3K
3.12
18.4%
3.9K
3.13
16.4%
3.5K
3.11
7.9%
1.7K
3.10
3.7%
786
Top Countries
1.
US
21.0K
US
2.
SG
354
SG
3.
DE
276
DE
4.
CN
193
CN
5.
FR
164
FR
6.
GB
151
GB
7.
NL
106
NL
8.
IE
69
IE
9.
JP
68
JP
10.
CA
61
CA
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
August 27, 2013
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
4.10.1
Total Releases
32
Contributors
120
Open PRs
27
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
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