No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
troposphere has 1.5M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 4.10.2 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of cfn-flip. It is used by 52 tracked packages, including zappa, aws-service-catalog-puppet and ecs-composex.
GitHub topics include aws-cloudformation, cloudformation and troposphere.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
81
Adoption
60
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,532,003
•
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
1,532,003
Stars
4,942
Stars per 1k downloads
3.23
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
40,560
Month daily avg
51,067
Momentum
-20.6%
((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
BSD-2-Clause
•
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
51 days ago
Total releases
112
Releases/year
8.4
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
437
Monthly downloads
1,532,003
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
29.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.0%
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
13.0K
macOS
68
Windows
19
Python Versions
3.12
47.5%
5.3K
3.11
22.2%
2.5K
3.9
11.6%
1.3K
3.13
11.2%
1.2K
3.10
7.5%
825
Top Countries
1.
US
10.5K
US
2.
IE
996
IE
3.
AU
264
AU
4.
DE
248
DE
5.
IN
174
IN
6.
SE
174
SE
7.
NL
172
NL
8.
GB
159
GB
9.
SG
82
SG
10.
CA
74
CA
Used By
52
- zappa
- aws-service-catalog-puppet
- ecs-composex
- runway
- troposphere-awscommunity-applicationautoscaling-scheduledaction
- aws-service-catalog-factory
- aws-syndicate
- serverless-builder
- paco-models
- hyperscale-ozone
- awsibox
- cfn-kafka-admin
- pyqalx
- cloudlift
- aws-cfn-kafka-admin-provider
- paco-cloud
- cfn-cumulus
- aws-infrastructure-sdk
- aws-lambda
- aws-custom-ews-kafka-resources
- dustcluster
- aws-organized
- tchotcho
- troposphere-mate
- e3-aws
- tropoform
- propheto
- rhodes
- lovage
- aws-vpc
- cfn-datadog
- zappa-bepro
- bootstrap-cfn
- majorkirby
- ekscli
- cfn-encrypt
- aws-cf-custom-resources
- chili-pepper
- accretion-cli
- lonny-aws-blocks
- waffle-cli
- jetstream
- cfn-macro-common
- cfnmacro
- troposphere-crunch
- zappa-dateutil
- cfnsane
- zappa-warm
- tropokta
- lonny-blocks
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
February 21, 2013
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
4.10.2
Total Releases
112
Contributors
437
Open PRs
20
Archived
No
Author
Mark Peek
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh