No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
tuf has 735K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 7.0.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of securesystemslib and urllib3. It is used by 7 tracked packages, including sigstore, tufup and taf.
GitHub topics include security, update and revocation.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
69
Adoption
88
Community
65
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
734,907
•
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
734,907
Stars
1,711
Stars per 1k downloads
2.33
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
29,320
Month daily avg
24,497
Momentum
+19.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
Apache-2.0 OR 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
50 days ago
Total releases
39
Releases/year
3.1
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
88
Monthly downloads
734,907
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
68
Issue Burden
33.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.8%
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
20.7K
Windows
392
macOS
175
Python Versions
3.12
45.0%
9.5K
3.10
21.4%
4.5K
3.13
14.2%
3.0K
3.11
10.9%
2.3K
3.14
8.4%
1.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
18.3K
US
2.
KR
1.0K
KR
3.
CA
524
CA
4.
GB
248
GB
5.
DE
245
DE
6.
IE
177
IE
7.
HK
158
HK
8.
SG
139
SG
9.
NL
69
NL
10.
AU
54
AU
Dependencies
2
- securesystemslib ~=1.0
- urllib3 <3,>=1.21.1
Used By
7
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0 OR MIT
First Release
September 27, 2013
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
7.0.0
Total Releases
39
Contributors
88
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh