No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
towncrier has 4.4M monthly downloads and 904 GitHub stars. Version 25.8.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.
It is built on top of click, importlib-metadata and importlib-resources. It is used by 14 tracked packages, including sphinxcontrib-towncrier, sphinx-changelog and repoplone.
GitHub topics include project-management, newsfile and release-automation.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 275 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
62
Adoption
80
Community
65
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
35 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,438,789
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
4,438,789
Stars
904
Stars per 1k downloads
0.20
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
148,469
Month daily avg
147,960
Momentum
+0.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
311 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
3.6
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
93
Monthly downloads
4,438,789
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
70.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
17.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
72.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
275d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
118.8K
Windows
1.2K
macOS
532
Python Versions
3.10
26.5%
31.0K
3.11
20.3%
23.8K
3.12
18.3%
21.4K
3.13
17.6%
20.6K
3.14
17.4%
20.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
116.0K
US
2.
IE
1.4K
IE
3.
SG
1.0K
SG
4.
ES
730
ES
5.
NL
641
NL
6.
DE
488
DE
7.
FR
432
FR
8.
HK
140
HK
9.
CH
128
CH
10.
GB
127
GB
Dependencies
5
- click
- importlib-metadata >=4.6
- importlib-resources >=5
- jinja2
- tomli
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
December 27, 2015
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
25.8.0
Total Releases
38
Contributors
93
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Python Versions
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