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popularity
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maintenance
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community
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GitHub Stars: 10.1K
Forks: 1.78K
Contributors: 350

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Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package gunicorn, we found that it has been starred 10,100 times.

Security

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Release Date: Aug 10, 2024
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License

MIT

Security Policy

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 149
Open PR: 98
Last Release: 9 months ago
Last Commit: 2 months ago

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

We found that gunicorn demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 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.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 350
Funding: No

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: >=3.7

Age: 15 years
Latest Release: 9 months ago
Dependencies: 1 Direct / 4 Total
Versions: 86
Maintainers: 2
Wheels: OS Independent

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benoitc / gunicorn / tests / test_arbiter.py View on Github

# -*- coding: utf-8 -
#
# This file is part of gunicorn released under the MIT license.
# See the NOTICE for more information.

import os
import unittest.mock as mock

import gunicorn.app.base
import gunicorn.arbiter
from gunicorn.config import ReusePort


class DummyApplication(gunicorn.app.base.BaseApplication):
    """
    Dummy application that has a default configuration.
    """

    def init(self, parser, opts, args):
        """No-op"""

    def load(self):
        """No-op"""

    def load_config(self):
        """No-op"""


@mock.patch('gunicorn.sock.close_sockets')
def test_arbiter_stop_closes_listeners(close_sockets):

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Gunicorn

Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resource usage, and fairly speedy.

Feel free to join us in #gunicorn on Libera.chat.

Documentation

The documentation is hosted at .

Installation

Gunicorn requires Python 3.x >= 3.7.

Install from PyPI:

$ pip install gunicorn

Usage

Basic usage:

$ gunicorn [OPTIONS] APP_MODULE

Where APP_MODULE is of the pattern $(MODULE_NAME):$(VARIABLE_NAME). The module name can be a full dotted path. The variable name refers to a WSGI callable that should be found in the specified module.

Example with test app:

$ cd examples
$ gunicorn --workers=2 test:app

Contributing

See our complete contributor's guide for more details.

License

Gunicorn is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

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What is gunicorn?

WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for gunicorn, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is gunicorn popular?

The python package gunicorn receives a total of 11,544,459 weekly downloads. As such, gunicorn popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is gunicorn well maintained?

We found indications that gunicorn maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 350 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is gunicorn safe to use?

While scanning the latest version of gunicorn, we found that a security review is needed. A total of 0 vulnerabilities or license issues were detected. See the full security scan results.

Last updated on 7 May-2025, at 01:07 (UTC).

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