No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
sphinx-rtd-theme has 15.6M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 3.1.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2013.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.
It is built on top of docutils, sphinx and sphinxcontrib-jquery. It is used by 533 tracked packages, including benchmark-runner, super-gradients and dipex.
GitHub topics include sphinx-doc and sphinx-theme.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
81
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
175 days ago
Monthly downloads
15,616,875
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
15,616,875
Stars
5,067
Stars per 1k downloads
0.32
•
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
478,141
Month daily avg
520,562
Momentum
-8.1%
((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
175 days ago
Total releases
63
Releases/year
5.0
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
15,616,875
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
37.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
6.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
317.1K
Windows
7.4K
macOS
3.3K
Python Versions
3.12
24.9%
75.8K
3.10
22.9%
69.8K
3.11
22.3%
68.0K
3.13
16.2%
49.4K
3.14
13.7%
41.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
289.5K
US
2.
DE
8.8K
DE
3.
SG
8.5K
SG
4.
IE
3.9K
IE
5.
CN
3.4K
CN
6.
NL
2.2K
NL
7.
HK
1.5K
HK
8.
FR
1.3K
FR
9.
IN
1.3K
IN
10.
GB
1.2K
GB
Dependencies
3
- docutils <0.23,>0.18
- sphinx <10,>=6
- sphinxcontrib-jquery <5,>=4
4 optional dependencies
- bump2version[dev]
- transifex-client[dev]
- twine[dev]
- wheel[dev]
Used By
533
- benchmark-runner
- super-gradients
- dipex
- sphinx-ansible-theme
- endoreg-db
- cloud-governance
- sphinx-gherkindoc
- rosdoc2
- lfdocs-conf
- pami
- renku-sphinx-theme
- hdmf-docutils
- checks-superstaq
- indic-nlp-library-itt
- nextstrain-sphinx-theme
- geoanalytics
- pvisor
- specmake
- mdanalysis-sphinx-theme
- django-sodar-core
- iopt
- table-evaluator
- django-koldar-utils
- massgen
- py-tes
- pyx-core
- cameratransform
- utspclient
- slicap
- krkn-lib
- stsci-rtd-theme
- celldetective
- envoy-docs-sphinx-runner
- sphinx-ncs-theme
- pyopia
- autowoe
- podcastfy
- preprocessing
- ampligraph
- oat-python
- adrpy
- kedro-sphinx-theme
- cdh-lava-core
- entity-embeddings-categorical
- geograpy3
- elemeno-ai-sdk
- agentuniverse
- sphinx-ape
- clearbox-sure
- epythet
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
November 4, 2013
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
3.1.0
Total Releases
63
Contributors
120
Open PRs
83
Archived
No
Author
Dave Snider, Read the Docs, Inc. & contributors
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py27
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh