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MIT No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2023.

Latest release

v1.2.1 published Oct 31, 2025

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About and history
Repository
SYSTRAN/faster-whisper · created Feb 11, 2023
Language
Python
Foundation
None; run by its maintainers
GitHub detects
MIT
Stars per week
155 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 9, 202626,642
Oct 26, 202626,347
Oct 19, 202626,014
Oct 12, 202625,836
Sep 28, 202625,681
Sep 21, 202625,555

Changes

Stars per weekNov 10, 2026

Gains about 155 stars a week, down from 158.

Stars per weekOct 31, 2026

Gains about 158 stars a week, up from 115.

Stars per weekOct 21, 2026

Gains about 115 stars a week, up from 94.

Stars per weekOct 13, 2026

Gains about 94 stars a week, down from 126.

ReleaseOct 13, 2026

Latest release on GitHub: v1.2.1.

Stars per weekOct 3, 2026

Gains about 126 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from SYSTRAN/faster-whisper on GitHub.