Is flake8 healthy, maintained, and safe?
Maintained, but watch it — flake8 has real signals (drift, thin maintenance, or advisories) worth tracking.
The verdict
On the OSPulse health scale, flake8 lands at 55/100 — medium risk, computed deterministically from live PyPI release history, and the OSV vulnerability database. Maintained, but watch it — flake8 has real signals (drift, thin maintenance, or advisories) worth tracking.
Nothing has shipped since 20 June 2025 — over a year ago (403 days) — which points to a dormant project. Historically it released far more frequently, so the current silence reads as a genuine collapse in velocity rather than a natural gap. PyPI doesn't expose a reliable maintainer count, so bus-factor isn't scored here — treat maintenance depth as unknown rather than assumed.
Security-wise, flake8 currently has a clean OSV record — no published advisories. Keep in mind that reflects what's been disclosed, not a guarantee of safety.
flake8 is usable but carries real signals — pin versions, watch for new advisories, and keep a fallback in mind. This is a one-time snapshot of a single package — real projects depend on dozens or hundreds of packages, and any one of them can drift or be compromised between releases. Run your own requirements.txt through the free health check, or have OSPulse monitor your whole dependency tree continuously.
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Key facts
- Latest version
- v7.3.0
- Last release
- 20 June 2025 (403 days ago)
- Total releases
- 94
- First release
- 12 August 2010
- Package age
- 16.0 years
- Maintainers
- not exposed by PyPI
- Known advisories
- 0
- Confidence
- High
Frequently asked
Is flake8 still maintained?
Partly — the most recent release was 20 June 2025 (403 days ago), so maintenance has slowed but not fully stopped.
Does flake8 have known security vulnerabilities?
No advisories are currently recorded for flake8 in the OSV database. That means none have been publicly disclosed and indexed — it is not a guarantee of safety.
Is flake8 safe to use?
Maintained, but watch it — flake8 has real signals (drift, thin maintenance, or advisories) worth tracking. OSPulse rates it 55/100 (medium risk) based on release recency, cadence and known vulnerabilities.
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Data from the PyPI registry & OSV.dev · snapshot generated 2026-07-28 · scores are deterministic and recomputed on each refresh.