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paragonie/random_compat

Packagist · v9.99.100 · MIT

PHP 5.x polyfill for random_bytes() and random_int() from PHP 7

Security (primary) · Tentative

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Install

composer require paragonie/random_compat

Adoption

Downloads (30 days): 16.9M; Observeddownloads / 30 days
Popularity: Top 10% on Packagist; Derived98th percentile within Packagist
Dependents: 429; Observedpackages that depend on it
All-time downloads: 738.9M; Observedsince first publish
Maintenance: 0.24; DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year: 8.9; 59 versions over its life

Growth by period

Derived by Crest of Tech from two observations of Packagist’s own figure, a period apart. Nothing is stored or estimated: without an observation near the period’s start, the period is still collecting.

7 days: Collectinghistory; Collecting
30 days: +22.5% · 30d; Derived+3.1M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
90 days: +57.8% · 90d; Derived+6.2M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
1 year: +109.9% · 1y; Derived+8.8M downloads / 30 days, OCT 27 → OCT 24

Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 12 observations

Table of observations (12)

Day	downloads / 30 days	Dependents
OCT 24, 2026	16,871,397	429
OCT 5, 2026	14,449,418	Not observed
OCT 3, 2026	14,184,081	Not observed
OCT 2, 2026	14,487,065	Not observed
OCT 1, 2026	14,479,274	Not observed
SEP 30, 2026	14,382,147	Not observed
SEP 29, 2026	14,324,062	Not observed
SEP 28, 2026	13,876,269	Not observed
SEP 27, 2026	13,305,052	Not observed
SEP 26, 2026	13,486,055	Not observed
SEP 25, 2026	13,788,013	Not observed
SEP 24, 2026	13,774,351	Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version: v9.99.100; 59 versions
First published: JUL 7, 2015
Last release: FEB 16, 2022; 5y ago
Licence: MIT
Links: Packagist page (opens in a new tab); Source · github.com (opens in a new tab)

Repository

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