No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
winkerberos has 4.3M monthly downloads and 57 GitHub stars. Version 0.13.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2025.
It is used by 6 tracked packages, including python-apis, pyadrecon-adws and pyadrecon.
GitHub topics include kerberos, sspi and authentication.
Provenance Mismatch
This package's publish attestation (PEP 740) proves it builds from mongodb/winkerberos, not the linked mongodb-labs/winkerberos. Stars and other GitHub metrics shown here come from the claimed repository.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 208 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
36
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,343,509
•
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
4,343,509
Stars
57
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
149,690
Month daily avg
144,784
Momentum
+3.4%
((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 License 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
215 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
2.1
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
118
Monthly downloads
4,343,509
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
60
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
786.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
208d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
139.9K
Windows
383
macOS
111
Python Versions
3.10
27.2%
38.0K
3.13
18.9%
26.3K
3.11
18.8%
26.2K
3.12
18.6%
26.0K
3.14
16.6%
23.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
140.1K
US
2.
NO
112
NO
3.
NL
48
NL
4.
DE
29
DE
5.
SG
23
SG
6.
GB
17
GB
7.
BE
14
BE
8.
AU
12
AU
9.
IE
9
IE
10.
IT
9
IT
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
March 28, 2016
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
0.13.0
Total Releases
22
Contributors
118
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp26
cp310
cp312
cp314
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh