Is filelock safe to use?

filelock has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (3.29.0). DepScope rates its health at 68/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of filelock?

The latest version of filelock is 3.29.0, released 2026-04-19.

Does filelock have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of filelock.

Is filelock deprecated?

No, filelock is actively maintained. Latest release: 3.29.0 (2026-04-19).

What are alternatives to filelock?

Popular alternatives to filelock in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, idna, certifi, urllib3.

What license does filelock use?

filelock is licensed under MIT.

filelock

pypiv3.29.0

A platform independent file lock.

License MITpermissive96 versions0 deps

tox-dev/py-filelock

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (68/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (68/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

3/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

7.1/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

8

Contributors (12m)

9

Primary author dominance

58%

GitHub stars

953

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.53high

Download trend

stable(0%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

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curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/filelock

filelock

pypiv3.29.0

A platform independent file lock.

License MITpermissive96 versions0 deps

tox-dev/py-filelock

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (68/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (68/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

3/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

7.1/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

8

Contributors (12m)

9

Primary author dominance

58%

GitHub stars

953

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.53high

Download trend

stable(0%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/filelock