No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
types-pyserial has 1.7M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 3.5.0.20260519 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2022.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is used by 9 tracked packages, including pigweed, types-all-v2 and xwr.
GitHub topics include stub, types and typing.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
81
Adoption
60
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,657,176
•
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
1,657,176
Stars
5,090
Stars per 1k downloads
3.07
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
38,275
Month daily avg
55,239
Momentum
-30.7%
((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
•
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
49 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
9.9
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
1,594
Monthly downloads
1,657,176
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
44.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
77.8%
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
7.3K
macOS
460
Windows
292
Python Versions
3.12
29.5%
2.3K
3.14
25.8%
2.0K
3.11
23.8%
1.8K
3.10
12.6%
976
3.13
8.3%
642
Top Countries
1.
US
6.7K
US
2.
GB
205
GB
3.
HU
166
HU
4.
CH
164
CH
5.
IN
154
IN
6.
IE
131
IE
7.
DE
115
DE
8.
CA
66
CA
9.
SE
65
SE
10.
HK
63
HK
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
December 22, 2022
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
3.5.0.20260519
Total Releases
35
Contributors
1,594
Open PRs
146
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh