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Project Summary

Software Update for Embedded Systems

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embedded linuxembedded mmc mtd ota u_boot updater yocto

In a Nutshell, SWUpdate...

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has had 2,964 commits made by 199 contributors
representing 82,847 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
with decreasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 21 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2013
ending with its most recent commit 5 days ago

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https://github.com/sbabic/swupdate

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

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Vulnerability Exposure Index

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Few reported vulnerabilities

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Activity

Commits per Month

Community

Contributors per Month

Languages

C	72%
Python	12%
Perl	7%
8 Other	9%

30 Day Summary

Oct 20 2025 — Nov 19 2025

1 Commit
1 Contributor

12 Month Summary

Nov 19 2024 — Nov 19 2025

211 Commits
Down -65 (23%) from previous 12 months
24 Contributors
Down -13 (35%) from previous 12 months

Most Recent Contributors

	Fabio Estevam		Stefano Babic
	...nique Martinet		Bastian Germann
	...ael Glembotzki		Storm, Christian

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for sbabic/swupdate )

Repository URL: https://github.com/sbabic/swupdate

Version:

2025-09-26
Last Analyzed

121,579
Lines of Code Analyze

0.57
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

313
Total defects

69
Outstanding

224
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID	CWE-Name	Number of Defects
190	Integer Overflow or Wraparound	4
676	Use of Potentially Dangerous Function	2