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waitress

Waitress - A WSGI server for Python 3
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

waitress has 8.8M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.0.2 supports Python 3.9.0+, first published in 2011.

It is actively maintained, last released in Nov 2024.

It is used by 498 tracked packages, including mlflow, apache-superset and webtest.

GitHub topics include wsgi-server and http-server.

Downloads
Day
263.7K
Week
1.9M
Month
8.8M
Stars
1.6K
Forks
185
Issues
22
Version
3.0.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
67
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
18 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,760,132
• 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
8,760,132
Stars
1,591
Stars per 1k downloads
0.18
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
275,244
Month daily avg
292,004
Momentum
-5.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9.0
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
ZPL 2.1
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
597 days ago
Total releases
52
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
68
Monthly downloads
8,760,132
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
55
 
Issue Burden
13.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
579d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 114.2K
Windows 12.4K
macOS 2.1K

Python Versions

3.12
24.4% 35.9K
3.11
21.7% 32.0K
3.9
20.1% 29.7K
3.8
18.9% 27.9K
3.10
14.9% 21.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
109.6K
2. NL NL
10.9K
3. DE DE
9.4K
4. SG SG
6.9K
5. IN IN
6.4K
6. IE IE
6.0K
7. GB GB
5.4K
8. JP JP
4.7K
9. AU AU
4.7K
10. FR FR
4.6K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
ZPL 2.1
First Release
December 30, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.0.2
Total Releases
52
Contributors
68
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Zope Foundation and Contributors
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
waitress wsgi server http
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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