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xxhash

Python Binding for xxHash
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

xxhash has 179.5M monthly downloads and 464 GitHub stars. Version 3.8.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.

It is used by 638 tracked packages, including datasets, langsmith and langgraph.

GitHub topics include xxhash, hash and cpython.

Downloads
Day
4.7M
Week
38.5M
Month
179.5M
Stars
464
Forks
40
Issues
4
Version
3.8.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
53
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
179,535,248
• 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
179,535,248
Stars
464
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
5,496,648
Month daily avg
5,984,508
Momentum
-8.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
0 days ago
Total releases
44
Releases/year
3.7
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
16
Monthly downloads
179,535,248
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
39
 
Issue Burden
8.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.0%
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 3.2M
Windows 69.5K
macOS 43.6K

Python Versions

3.11
36.3% 1.2M
3.12
29.6% 958.5K
3.13
15.1% 488.3K
3.10
14.2% 458.9K
3.14
4.9% 157.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
2.5M
2. SG SG
167.9K
3. DE DE
75.1K
4. IN IN
69.2K
5. IE IE
55.9K
6. CA CA
52.4K
7. AU AU
39.1K
8. KR KR
35.8K
9. HK HK
32.8K
10. NL NL
30.8K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
July 30, 2014
Last Release
11 hr ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
3.8.1
Total Releases
44
Contributors
16
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Yue Du
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp27 pp311
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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