(dxxx) 20 great CPAN modules released last week

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.421 on 2025-01-09, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.420 was 13 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
   • Version: v1.5.0 on 2025-01-08, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v1.4.1 was 11 months, 4 days before
   • Author: DWHEELER
3. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
   • Version: 4.67 on 2025-01-08, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.66 was 6 months, 19 days before
   • Author: LEEJO
4. Config::General - Generic Config Module
   • Version: 2.67 on 2025-01-08, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.65 was 2 years, 8 months, 28 days before
   • Author: TLINDEN
5. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20250109.001 on 2025-01-10, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20250103.001 was 6 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
6. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
   • Version: 0.020 on 2025-01-10, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.019 was 11 months, 13 days before
   • Author: LEONT
7. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.19 on 2025-01-05, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.18 was 1 year, 3 months before
   • Author: SCHUBIGER
8. DBD::mysql - A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
   • Version: 5.011 on 2025-01-06, with 58 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.010 was 1 month, 25 days before
   • Author: DVEEDEN
9. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
   • Version: 1.646 on 2025-01-11, with 273 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.645 was 4 months, 8 days before
   • Author: HMBRAND
10. experimental - Experimental features made easy
    • Version: 0.034 on 2025-01-09, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.033 was 17 days before
    • Author: LEONT
11. Module::Pluggable - automatically give your module the ability to have plugins
    • Version: 6.3 on 2025-01-10, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.2 was 2 months, 16 days before
    • Author: SIMONW
12. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
    • Version: 0.819 on 2025-01-10, with 45 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.818 was 18 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
13. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20250105 on 2025-01-05, with 142 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20240903 was 4 months, 2 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
14. Rose::DB::Object - Extensible, high performance object-relational mapper (ORM).
    • Version: 0.822 on 2025-01-06, with 21 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.821 was 2 months, 17 days before
    • Author: JSIRACUSA
15. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990038 on 2025-01-09, with 34 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990035 was 5 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
16. Test::Warnings - Test for warnings and the lack of them
    • Version: 0.037 on 2025-01-05, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.036 was 2 days before
    • Author: ETHER
17. Text::CSV - comma-separated values manipulator (using XS or PurePerl)
    • Version: 2.05 on 2025-01-11, with 81 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.04 was 1 year, 1 month, 9 days before
    • Author: ISHIGAKI
18. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.59 on 2025-01-05, with 102 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.58 was 6 days before
    • Author: HMBRAND
19. Text::MultiMarkdown - Convert MultiMarkdown syntax to (X)HTML
    • Version: 1.004 on 2025-01-06, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.003 was 2 months, 13 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
20. Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects
    • Version: 1.35 on 2025-01-06, with 60 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.3401 was 4 years, 9 months before
    • Author: PEVANS

(dxxix) 20 great CPAN modules released last week

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. App::Ack - A grep-like program for searching source code
   • Version: v3.8.1 on 2025-01-01, with 131 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v3.8.0 was 11 days before
   • Author: PETDANCE
2. App::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
   • Version: 0.337 on 2024-12-30, with 49 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.336 was 1 year, 4 months, 4 days before
   • Author: RJBS
3. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.081003 on 2024-12-31, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.080003 was 2 months, 1 day before
   • Author: OLIVER
4. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20250103.001 on 2025-01-04, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20241208.001 was 27 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
5. DateTime::Format::Flexible - DateTime::Format::Flexible - Flexibly parse strings and turn them into DateTime objects.
   • Version: 0.37 on 2024-12-31, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.36 was 2 months, 14 days before
   • Author: THINC
6. Getopt::Long::Descriptive - Getopt::Long, but simpler and more powerful
   • Version: 0.116 on 2024-12-30, with 58 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.115 was 1 month, 23 days before
   • Author: RJBS
7. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
   • Version: 1.901 on 2025-01-02, with 108 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.900 was 3 months, 22 days before
   • Author: MARIOROY
8. MooseX::Getopt - A Moose role for processing command line options
   • Version: 0.78 on 2025-01-03, with 21 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.76 was 1 year, 16 days before
   • Author: ETHER
9. MooseX::NonMoose - easy subclassing of non-Moose classes
   • Version: 0.27 on 2025-01-03, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.26 was 10 years, 10 months, 6 days before
   • Author: PLICEASE
10. Net::SSH::Perl - Perl client Interface to SSH
    • Version: 2.143 on 2025-01-04, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.142 was 1 year, 4 months, 28 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
11. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.098 on 2025-01-03, with 57 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.095 was 1 month, 29 days before
    • Author: ETJ
12. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
    • Version: 0.853 on 2025-01-04, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.852 was 7 days before
    • Author: ETJ
13. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990035 on 2025-01-04, with 34 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990033 was 18 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
14. Test::File - test file attributes
    • Version: 1.994 on 2025-01-03, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.993 was 2 years, 2 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
15. Test::Output - Utilities to test STDOUT and STDERR messages.
    • Version: 1.035 on 2025-01-03, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.034 was 1 year, 5 months, 29 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
16. Test::Warnings - Test for warnings and the lack of them
    • Version: 0.036 on 2025-01-03, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.033 was 11 months, 11 days before
    • Author: ETHER
17. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.58 on 2024-12-30, with 102 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.57 was 1 month, 18 days before
    • Author: HMBRAND
18. TheSchwartz - reliable job queue
    • Version: 1.18 on 2024-12-31, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.17 was 3 years, 1 day before
    • Author: AKIYM
19. Unicode::Tussle - Tom's Unicode Scripts So Life is Easier
    • Version: 1.119 on 2025-01-03, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.115 was 3 years, 23 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
20. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.64 on 2025-01-01, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.62 was 4 days before
    • Author: YOREEK

(dxcvii) metacpan weekly report - Mojolicious

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 43

Week's winner: Mojolicious (+2)

Build date: 2025/01/04 21:51:46 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::CPANModules::CLI::Wrapper::UnixCommand - List of various CLIs that wrap existing Unix commands
• Acme::CPANModules::DiffWrappers - List of wrappers for the diff Unix command
• Acme::CPANModules::GrepVariants - List of grep-like CLI utilities available on CPAN
• DateTime::Format::RelativeTime - A Web Intl.RelativeTimeFormat Class Implementation
• HTML::EntityReference - A minimal, abstract, and reusable list of HTML entities
• kura - Store constraints for Data::Checks, Type::Tiny, Moose, and more.
• Math::Symbolic::Custom::Polynomial - Polynomial routines for Math::Symbolic
• Net::DNS::Paranoid - paranoid dns resolver
• Raylib::FFI - Perl FFI bindings for raylib
• Result::Simple - A dead simple perl-ish Result like F#, Rust, Go, etc.
• VAPID - Voluntary Application Server Identification
• Webservice::Rosary::API - Perl API client for the Rosary API at https://therosaryapi.cf and https://dailyrosary.cf.
• Webservice::Sendy::API - Sendy's integration API Perl client and commandline utility

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::LibLinear (+1=6)
• Aniki (+1=7)
• Antsy (+1=3)
• App::cpanminus (+1=282)
• App::cpm (+1=74)
• DBIx::Schema::DSL (+1=10)
• e (+1=4)
• Email::MIME (+1=21)
• File::Slurp (+1=75)
• HTML::Escape (+1=15)
• HTTP::Proxy (+1=5)
• MCE (+1=108)
• MIME::Lite (+1=34)
• Minilla (+1=62)
• Module::Build (+1=49)
• Mojolicious (+2=502)
• perl (+1=425)
• Perl::Critic::Community (+1=7)
• PerlIO::gzip (+1=14)
• Pod::Perldoc (+1=11)
• Poz (+1=3)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=176)
• SQL::QueryMaker (+1=2)
• Syntax::Keyword::Assert (+1=2)
• Test::Requires (+1=18)
• Test::Simple (+1=190)
• UNIVERSAL::Object (+1=15)
• Valiant (+1=5)
• XML::Hash::XS (+1=13)

(dxxviii) 10 great CPAN modules released last week

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.420 on 2024-12-27, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.419 was 7 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. experimental - Experimental features made easy
   • Version: 0.033 on 2024-12-23, with 32 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.032 was 7 months, 28 days before
   • Author: LEONT
3. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
   • Version: 1.49 on 2024-12-27, with 27 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.48 was 1 month, 19 days before
   • Author: NLNETLABS
4. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.818 on 2024-12-23, with 45 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.816 was 28 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
5. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
   • Version: 0.852 on 2024-12-28, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.84 was 7 months, 1 day before
   • Author: ETJ
6. Perl::Critic::Freenode - Community-inspired Perl::Critic policies (DEPRECATED)
   • Version: v1.0.4 on 2024-12-28, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.033 was 4 years, 6 days before
   • Author: DBOOK
7. PPI - Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
   • Version: 1.281 on 2024-12-27, with 60 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.279 was 4 months, 4 days before
   • Author: MITHALDU
8. Specio - Type constraints and coercions for Perl
   • Version: 0.49 on 2024-12-23, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.48 was 2 years, 6 months, 12 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
9. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
   • Version: 1.302207 on 2024-12-28, with 190 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.302206 was 8 days before
   • Author: EXODIST
10. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.62 on 2024-12-28, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.59 was 7 days before
    • Author: YOREEK

(dxcvi) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 40

Week's winner: perl (+3)

Build date: 2024/12/29 17:27:21 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Alien::NLopt - Build and Install the NLopt library
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::V - Documentation and tools for using Platypus with the V programming language
• Math::Symbolic::Custom::CollectSimplify - Simplify Math::Symbolic expressions using Math::Symbolic::Custom::Collect
• Microsoft::Teams::WebHook - Microsoft Teams WebHook with AdaptiveCards for formatting notifications

Increasing its reputation:

• Alien::TALib (+1=2)
• Anonymous::Object (+1=2)
• App::Music::ChordPro (+1=3)
• App::perlimports (+1=19)
• Carp (+1=74)
• Class::Method::Modifiers (+1=30)
• Devel::Symdump (+1=9)
• e (+1=4)
• End (+1=4)
• File::KDBX (+1=2)
• File::Open (+1=6)
• Getopt::Long::Descriptive (+1=58)
• Math::Symbolic (+1=5)
• Method::Assert (+1=2)
• Mojo::Redis (+1=18)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::DBViewer (+1=8)
• Object::Pad (+1=45)
• Parallel::ForkManager (+1=99)
• Path::Tiny (+2=191)
• PDL::IO::CSV (+1=6)
• perl (+3=425)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=142)
• Plack::Middleware::OpenTelemetry (+1=2)
• Poz (+2=2)
• Proc::Fork (+1=15)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=175)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=44)
• Task::MemManager (+1=3)
• Telegram::Bot (+1=3)
• Time::HiRes (+1=64)
• Time::Moment (+1=73)
• Zydeco (+1=21)

(dcxxii) stackoverflow perl report

These are the three most rated questions at Stack Overflow last weeks.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2024-12-29 17:24:44 GMT

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1. Unexpected behavior of do - [2/1]
2. Does 'use warnings' change $^W? - [1/1]
3. Easy way to replace all keys in a data structure with a standard one - [1/1]

(dxxvii) 14 great CPAN modules released last week

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. App::Ack - A grep-like program for searching source code
   • Version: v3.8.0 on 2024-12-21, with 131 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v3.7.0 was 1 year, 9 months, 22 days before
   • Author: PETDANCE
2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.419 on 2024-12-20, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.417 was 1 month, 3 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
3. Capture::Tiny - Capture STDOUT and STDERR from Perl, XS or external programs
   • Version: 0.50 on 2024-12-19, with 104 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.48 was 6 years, 7 months, 27 days before
   • Author: DAGOLDEN
4. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
   • Version: 2.10 on 2024-12-18, with 65 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.09 was 3 months, 30 days before
   • Author: PLICEASE
5. Future::AsyncAwait - deferred subroutine syntax for futures
   • Version: 0.70 on 2024-12-20, with 48 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.69 was 3 months, 2 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
6. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
   • Version: 13.10 on 2024-12-20, with 42 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 13.00 was 1 month, 22 days before
   • Author: EXIFTOOL
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20241220 on 2024-12-20, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20241120 was 1 month before
   • Author: BINGOS
8. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.817 on 2024-12-20, with 45 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.816 was 25 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
9. Prima - a Perl graphic toolkit
   • Version: 1.75 on 2024-12-21, with 43 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.74 was 4 months, 2 days before
   • Author: KARASIK
10. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990033 on 2024-12-17, with 34 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990032 was 15 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
11. Sub::Name - (Re)name a sub
    • Version: 0.28 on 2024-12-15, with 30 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.27 was 1 year, 7 months, 16 days before
    • Author: ETHER
12. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302206 on 2024-12-20, with 191 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302204 was 3 months, 5 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
13. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.59 on 2024-12-21, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.57 was 2 months, 24 days before
    • Author: YOREEK
14. YAML::Tiny - Read/Write YAML files with as little code as possible
    • Version: 1.76 on 2024-12-16, with 32 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.74 was 1 year, 8 months, 24 days before
    • Author: ETHER

(dxxvi) 7 great CPAN modules released last week

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.997021 on 2024-12-11, with 73 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.997020 was 17 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
2. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20241208.001 on 2024-12-08, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20240910.001 was 2 months, 28 days before
   • Author: BDFOY
3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.39 on 2024-12-12, with 45 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.38 was 6 months, 15 days before
   • Author: RURBAN
4. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 4.0005 on 2024-12-12, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.0004 was 3 months, 2 days before
   • Author: DCANTRELL
5. parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
   • Version: 0.244 on 2024-12-13, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.243 was 15 days before
   • Author: CORION
6. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
   • Version: 1.048 on 2024-12-09, with 40 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.047 was 2 months, 9 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
7. XML::Twig - XML, The Perl Way
   • Version: 3.53 on 2024-12-13, with 62 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.52 was 8 years, 20 days before
   • Author: MIROD

(dxcv) metacpan weekly report - Path::Tiny

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 33

Week's winner: Path::Tiny (+2)

Build date: 2024/12/14 21:06:47 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Free::API::ChuckNorris - Perl API client for the Chuck Norris Quote API service, https://api.chucknorris.io.
• Acme::Free::API::Stonks - Perl API client for the, top 50 stocks discussed on le'Reddit subeddit - r/Wallstreetbets, https://tradestie.com/apps/reddit/api/.
• Acme::Free::API::Ye - Perl API client for the Kanye Rest Quote API service, https://kanye.rest/.
• Acme::Free::Dog::API - Perl API client for the Dog API service, https://dog.ceo/dog-api.
• Acme::Free::Public::APIs - Perl API client for FreePublicAPI.com's API for for listing APIs.
• Dispatch::Fu - Converts any complicated conditional dispatch situation into familiar static hash-key based dispatch
• Math::Symbolic::Custom::Collect - Collect up Math::Symbolic expressions
• Music::Dice - Define and roll musical dice
• WordList::HTTP::UserAgentString::PERLANCAR - A selection of some HTTP User-Agent strings

Increasing its reputation:

• autobox::Core (+1=24)
• Crypt::JWT (+1=26)
• Data::Grid (+1=3)
• Data::Rx (+1=4)
• Extism (+1=3)
• Inline::C (+1=37)
• JSON::Schema::Modern (+1=4)
• OpenMP (+1=2)
• OpenMP::Environment (+1=3)
• OpenMP::Simple (+1=2)
• Parallel::WorkUnit (+1=7)
• Path::Tiny (+2=190)
• Perl::Metrics::Simple (+1=9)
• SPVM (+1=34)
• Sub::Genius (+1=3)
• Sub::Identify (+1=10)
• Task::MemManager (+1=2)
• Text::ASCII::Convert (+1=3)
• Time::HiRes (+1=63)
• Try::ALRM (+1=2)
• URI::Escape::XS (+1=9)
• Util::H2O::More (+1=4)
• Webservice::KeyVal::API (+1=2)

(dxxv) 3 great CPAN modules released last week

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.96 on 2024-12-04, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.95 was 9 months, 3 days before
   • Author: SBECK
2. Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert CSS, Less, Sass, JavaScript and CoffeeScript files
   • Version: 2.15 on 2024-12-06, with 50 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.14 was 1 year, 10 months, 10 days before
   • Author: SRI
3. SPVM - The SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.990032 on 2024-12-02, with 33 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.990031 was 16 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO