No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
shiv has 310K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.0.8 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2018.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2024.
It is built on top of click, importlib-resources and pip. It is used by 6 tracked packages, including cliffy, commi and image-vector-diego.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 566 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
66
Adoption
64
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
46 days ago
Monthly downloads
310,144
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
310,144
Stars
1,942
Stars per 1k downloads
6.26
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
9,345
Month daily avg
10,338
Momentum
-9.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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 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
612 days ago
Total releases
62
Releases/year
7.5
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
42
Monthly downloads
310,144
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
63
Issue Burden
25.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
37.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
566d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
5.0K
Windows
105
macOS
58
Python Versions
3.12
70.2%
3.5K
3.11
15.6%
769
3.13
5.9%
288
3.14
4.8%
234
3.10
3.5%
173
Top Countries
1.
US
4.9K
US
2.
SG
119
SG
3.
IL
29
IL
4.
JP
22
JP
5.
DE
18
DE
6.
IE
12
IE
7.
PH
11
PH
8.
FR
7
FR
9.
CA
5
CA
10.
GB
5
GB
Dependencies
4
- click !=7.0,>=6.7
- importlib-resources
- pip >=9.0.3
- setuptools
1 optional dependencies
- sphinx-click[rtd]
Package Information
License
BSD License
First Release
March 16, 2018
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.0.8
Total Releases
62
Contributors
42
Open PRs
15
Archived
No
Author
Loren Carvalho
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh