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Security

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OpenSSF Scorecard · 4.5/10

Checks sorted from strongest to weakest.

  • No risky CI workflowsNo dangerous workflow patterns detected10/10
  • Least-privilege CI tokensGitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege10/10
  • No binaries in the repositoryNo binaries found in the repo10/10
  • License fileLicense file detected10/10
  • Signed releases5 out of the last 5 releases have a total of 5 signed artifacts.8/10
  • Code review before mergeFound 1/3 approved changesets3/10
  • Recent activity0 commits and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days0/10
  • OpenSSF best-practices badgeNo effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected0/10
  • Pinned dependenciesDependency not pinned by hash detected0/10
  • Security policySecurity policy file not detected0/10
  • Fuzz testingProject is not fuzzed0/10
  • Branch protectionBranch protection not enabled on development/release branches0/10
  • Static analysis on commitsSAST tool is not run on all commits0/10
  • Published through a build pipelinePackaging workflow not detectednot scored

Maintenance

19 Feb 2026
Last commit
stale
26
Commits in the last year
1011
Contributors
all time · 1 in the last 100 commits
2021.12.17
Latest release
~31d cadence

Outside contributions: 10 of 100 external pull requests merged (17% of those decided), median 6 days to merge.From the 100 most recently updated pull requests, bots excluded.

Recent releases

Pull requests

Open
21
18 stale (60+ days, no update in 30)
Merged
1
of the 30 latest
Median time to merge
16 days
From bots
0
not listed below

The 30 most recently updated pull requests.

Top contributors

Of the 100 most recent commits.

Issues

Open
4,123
issues and pull requests, as GitHub counts them
Median time to close
2 days
from 41 closed of the 71 latest
Awaiting first reply
0
of 30 open among the 71 latest
Oldest open
16.0 years

Most wanted

Rates come from the 71 most recently updated issues; the open count and oldest issue cover the whole repository.

Dependencies

Checked packages and import counts

These are the packages checked for known security issues, which may not be all of them. External imports are counted from the source code.

Not checked
Packages checked
Unknown
External imports
outside packages the code imports

License

Unlicense
License
Permissive
Family
Unknown
License conflicts in dependencies
Dependency licenses were not checked
Commercial use: Generally fine for commercial and proprietary use, subject to attribution and notice terms.