No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
zxing-cpp has 571K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.0.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2021.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is used by 25 tracked packages, including inference-gpu, inference and inference-cpu.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 142 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
73
Adoption
77
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
571,455
•
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
571,455
Stars
1,916
Stars per 1k downloads
3.35
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
20,427
Month daily avg
19,048
Momentum
+7.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
146 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
1.8
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
112
Monthly downloads
571,455
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
93
Issue Burden
18.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
59.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
142d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
11.1K
Windows
1.2K
macOS
595
Python Versions
3.12
42.8%
5.0K
3.11
28.0%
3.3K
3.13
15.6%
1.8K
3.14
7.6%
898
3.10
6.1%
715
Top Countries
1.
US
9.3K
US
2.
DE
480
DE
3.
ES
314
ES
4.
SG
250
SG
5.
HK
212
HK
6.
JP
208
JP
7.
FR
182
FR
8.
CN
167
CN
9.
NL
155
NL
10.
GB
151
GB
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
May 28, 2021
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
3.0.0
Total Releases
9
Contributors
112
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh