Support Gunicorn¶

Gunicorn has been serving Python web applications since 2010. It's downloaded millions of times per month and runs in production at companies of all sizes.

No company pays for gunicorn's maintenance. The work happens in unpaid time, and that is what sets how fast it moves. Sponsorship changes that directly: it buys days that would otherwise go to client work.

What your sponsorship funds¶

Where the time goes, in priority order:

Release stabilization: working through the open reports and pull requests, reviewing contributions and getting the fixes people are waiting on into a release. This is the bulk of it, and it is the part that goes undone when there is no time
Security: responding to reported vulnerabilities
HTTP/2: h2c support across the HTTP/2-capable workers, and hardening what shipped as beta
ASGI: tracking the spec as FastAPI, Starlette and Quart move
Python compatibility: keeping up with new Python releases
Documentation: keeping the guides and the settings reference current

Two larger pieces of new work, neither started:

Serving AI workloads: dirty arbiters already give a model its own process pool, with per-app worker allocation and streaming responses. The work ahead is what a model server needs on top of that: batching requests so a single forward pass serves many of them, backpressure when the queue outgrows the workers, and pinning workers to specific GPUs
HTTP/3: QUIC support, alongside finishing HTTP/2. The protocol is already reserved in the configuration and does nothing yet

This is what gets worked on, in the order it gets worked on. It is not a schedule, and nothing here carries a date.

Sustained sponsorship funds full-time months rather than evenings. When it does, what it paid for goes in the release notes, so you can see what your money bought.