protobuf

Package Health Score

93/100
  • securityNo known security issues
  • popularityKey ecosystem project
  • maintenanceSustainable
  • communityActive

Maintenance

SUSTAINABLE

Commit Frequency

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Open Issues
125
Open PR
116
New PRS
1
Last Release
14 days ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Maintainers
380

Further analysis of the maintenance status of protobuf based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

We found that protobuf demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Popularity

KEY ECOSYSTEM PROJECT
GitHub Stars
71.0k
Forks
16.1k
Contributors
380

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package protobuf, we found that it has been starred 71,022 times.

Community

ACTIVE
Readme
No
Contributing.md
Yes
Code of Conduct
Yes
Contributors
380
Funding
No
LICENSE
BSD-3-Clause

A good and healthy external contribution signal for protobuf project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

How about a good first contribution to this project? It seems that protobuf is missing a README file.

License

Protobuf[4.21.0rc1,4.21.1);
[2.0.3,4.21.0rc1);
[4.21.1,);
Apache-2.0[2.0.0beta,2.0.3);

Direct Vulnerabilities

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Security

NO KNOWN SECURITY ISSUES
Show only direct vulnerabilities in latest version
No vulnerabilities found

No vulnerabilities found in the latest version

There are 4 total vulnerabilities, but none affect the latest version (7.34.1)

Package versions

212 VERSIONS IN TOTAL See all versions
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7.34.120 Mar, 2026
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