(dcxvii) 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::perlimports - Make implicit imports explicit
   • Version: 0.000065 on 2026-09-10, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.000064 was released 1 day before
   • Author: OALDERS
2. CallBackery - CallBackery is a Mojolicious+Qooxdoo Framework for building Web Applications
   • Version: v0.60.1 on 2026-09-09, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v0.60.0 was released 13 days before
   • Author: OETIKER
3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.51 on 2026-09-11, with 50 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.50 was released 2 days before
   • Author: RURBAN
4. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260908.001 on 2026-09-08, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260906.002 was released 2 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
5. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
   • Version: 1.653 on 2026-09-09, with 284 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.652 was released 25 days before
   • Author: HMBRAND
6. DBIx::Lite - Chained and minimal ORM
   • Version: 0.40 on 2026-09-07, with 30 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.39 was released 2 days before
   • Author: AAR
7. Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Client - Google Ads API Client Library for Perl
   • Version: v35.0.0 on 2026-09-10, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v34.0.0 was released 22 days before
   • Author: MATTIAT
8. HTML::FormHandler - HTML forms using Moose
   • Version: 0.410002 on 2026-09-07, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.410001 was released 3 days before
   • Author: ABRAXXA
9. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
   • Version: 0.648 on 2026-09-09, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.647 was released 10 days before
   • Author: ETHER
10. lazy - Lazily install missing Perl modules
    • Version: 1.000003 on 2026-09-08, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000002 was released 3 months, 29 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
11. PGXN::API - Maintain and serve a REST API to search PGXN mirrors
    • Version: v0.22.1 on 2026-09-08, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.22.0 was released the same day
    • Author: DWHEELER
12. Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
    • Version: 4.021 on 2026-09-10, with 35 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 4.020 was released 2 years, 5 months, 19 days before
    • Author: RJBS
13. Pod::Man - Convert POD data to various other formats
    • Version: v6.1.1 on 2026-09-10, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v6.1.0 was released 1 month, 20 days before
    • Author: RRA
14. Prima - a Perl graphic toolkit
    • Version: 1.78 on 2026-09-09, with 116 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.77 was released 1 year, 27 days before
    • Author: KARASIK
15. Sidef - The Sidef Programming Language - A modern, high-level programming language
    • Version: 26.09 on 2026-09-09, with 126 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 26.08 was released 1 month, 2 days before
    • Author: TRIZEN
16. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990199 on 2026-09-11, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990198 was released 9 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
17. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000179 on 2026-09-08, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000178 was released 4 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
18. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.80 on 2026-09-07, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.79 was released 2 months, 29 days before
    • Author: CORION
19. XML::Feed - Syndication feed parser and auto-discovery
    • Version: v1.0.1 on 2026-09-08, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v1.0.0 was released 9 months, 20 days before
    • Author: DAVECROSS
20. YAMLStar - YAML 1.2 loader via FFI
    • Version: v0.1.21 on 2026-09-08, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.1.20 was released 2 days before
    • Author: INGY

(dcxxxii) metacpan weekly report - Hyperman

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 41

Week's winner: Hyperman (+2)

Build date: 2026/09/12 14:25:26 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::CPANModuleSite - Automatically create a web site for a CPAN module.
• Fetch - HTTP/3, HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 Future-based user agent
• Geo::Elevation::HGT - Elevation service with terrain data provided by Mapzen and Amazon AWS S3
• Loop - Smart, Simple, Recursive Iterators for Perl programming.
• OpenTelemetry::Instrumentation::Mojo::UserAgent - OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Mojo::UserAgent
• Perl::Unix::Keywords - Prototype-based Unix-shaped verbs for Perl lists, trees, and subprocesses
• PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint - PerlIO layer for quoted-printable strings
• Punk::APIKey - API keys for Punk applications
• Signature::Attribute::Checked - apply value constraint checks to subroutine parameters

Increasing its reputation:

• B::C (+1=24)
• Crypt::CBC (+1=13)
• Crypt::LE (+1=13)
• DBD::Excel (+1=4)
• Device::SerialPort (+1=4)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::SecurityPolicy (+1=2)
• HTTP::Message (+1=72)
• Hyperman (+2=5)
• IPC::Run (+1=40)
• libwww::perl (+1=176)
• Linux::Event (+1=2)
• Math::NumSeq (+1=5)
• Mojolicious (+1=515)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenTelemetry (+1=3)
• Nmap::Scanner (+1=2)
• Object::Pad (+1=51)
• PAGI::FastAPI (+1=2)
• PAR::Packer (+1=46)
• Path::Iterator::Rule (+1=27)
• perl (+1=446)
• Perl::Tags (+1=3)
• PPI (+1=65)
• Punk (+1=7)
• Software::Security::Policy (+1=7)
• Syntax::Keyword::Dynamically (+1=8)
• Term::ANSIColor (+1=71)
• Term::Drawille (+1=3)
• Term::ProgressSpinner (+1=2)
• Wasm (+1=8)
• Weather::NHC::TropicalCyclone (+1=2)
• WebDyne (+1=2)

(dcxvi) 26 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. Alien::ImageMagick - cpanm compatible Image::Magick packaging.
   • Version: 0.11 on 2026-09-04, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.10 was released 2 years, 4 months, 15 days before
   • Author: AMBS
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.107000 on 2026-09-04, with 905 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.106000 was released 2 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. App::sbozyp - a package manager for Slackware's SlackBuilds.org
   • Version: v1.10.1 on 2026-09-04, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v1.10.0 was released the same day
   • Author: NHUBBARD
4. CPAN::Meta - the distribution metadata for a CPAN dist
   • Version: 2.150015 on 2026-08-31, with 41 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.150014 was released the same day
   • Author: ETHER
5. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.44 on 2026-09-02, with 50 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.43 was released 1 month, 15 days before
   • Author: RURBAN
6. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260903.001 on 2026-09-03, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260830.001 was released 4 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
7. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 7.00 on 2026-09-01, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.99 was released 5 months, 29 days before
   • Author: SBECK
8. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
   • Version: 1.67 on 2026-08-30, with 223 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.66 was released 1 year, 6 months, 11 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
9. DBIx::Lite - Chained and minimal ORM
   • Version: 0.39 on 2026-09-04, with 30 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.38 was released 3 months, 30 days before
   • Author: AAR
10. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.038 on 2026-09-05, with 189 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.037 was released 7 months, 10 days before
    • Author: RJBS
11. Finance::Quote - Get stock and mutual fund quotes from various exchanges
    • Version: 1.71 on 2026-08-30, with 150 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.71 was released 2 days before
    • Author: BPSCHUCK
12. HTML::FormHandler - HTML forms using Moose
    • Version: 0.410001 on 2026-09-03, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.410000 was released the same day
    • Author: ABRAXXA
13. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
    • Version: 0.647 on 2026-08-30, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.646 was released the same day
    • Author: ETHER
14. Lucy - Lucy search engine library.
    • Version: v0.8.0 on 2026-09-02, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.8.0_1 was released the same day
    • Author: KARMAN
15. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
    • Version: 1.57 on 2026-09-01, with 29 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.56 was released 1 month, 14 days before
    • Author: NLNETLABS
16. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
    • Version: 4.0012 on 2026-09-04, with 24 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 4.0011 was released 2 months, 23 days before
    • Author: DCANTRELL
17. Protocol::HTTP2 - HTTP/2 protocol implementation (RFC 7540)
    • Version: 1.14 on 2026-09-03, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.13 was released 2 months, 26 days before
    • Author: CRUX
18. Sisimai - Mail Analyzing Interface for bounce mails.
    • Version: v5.7.2 on 2026-08-31, with 83 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v5.7.1 was released 1 month, 14 days before
    • Author: AKXLIX
19. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990198 on 2026-09-02, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990197001_000 was released the same day
    • Author: KIMOTO
20. Sub::Exporter - a sophisticated exporter for custom-built routines
    • Version: 0.992 on 2026-09-05, with 38 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.991 was released 2 years, 9 months, 11 days before
    • Author: RJBS
21. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v12.7.0 on 2026-09-03, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v12.6.0 was released 28 days before
    • Author: DANBERR
22. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302225 on 2026-09-03, with 201 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302224 was released 9 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
23. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000178 on 2026-09-04, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000177 was released 9 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
24. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.37 on 2026-09-03, with 121 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.36 was released 15 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
25. Wasm - Write Perl extensions using Wasm
    • Version: 0.24 on 2026-09-03, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.23 was released 3 years, 9 months, 29 days before
    • Author: PLICEASE
26. YAMLStar - YAML 1.2 loader via FFI
    • Version: v0.1.19 on 2026-09-02, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.1.18 was released 1 month, 4 days before
    • Author: INGY

(dcxv) 17 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.105003 on 2026-08-24, with 905 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.105001 was released 2 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. CallBackery - CallBackery is a Mojolicious+Qooxdoo Framework for building Web Applications
   • Version: v0.60.0 on 2026-08-27, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v0.59.0 was released 6 days before
   • Author: OETIKER
3. DBD::Mock - Mock database driver for testing
   • Version: 1.60 on 2026-08-26, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.59 was released 5 years, 6 months, 3 days before
   • Author: JLCOOPER
4. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
   • Version: 3.21.2 on 2026-08-26, with 103 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.21.1 was released 3 days before
   • Author: TURNSTEP
5. Devel::Camelcadedb - Perl5 debugger for Intellij IDE
   • Version: v2026.1 on 2026-08-28, with 23 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v2023.1 was released 3 years, 5 months, 23 days before
   • Author: HURRICUP
6. IO::Compress - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.224 on 2026-08-28, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.223 was released 1 month, 24 days before
   • Author: PMQS
7. Mail::DMARC - Perl implementation of DMARC
   • Version: 2.20260827 on 2026-08-28, with 38 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.20260724 was released 1 month, 3 days before
   • Author: MSIMERSON
8. MIME::Body - Tools to manipulate MIME messages
   • Version: 5.518 on 2026-08-26, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.517 was released 6 months, 15 days before
   • Author: DSKOLL
9. OpenTelemetry - A Perl implementation of the OpenTelemetry standard
   • Version: 0.037 on 2026-08-26, with 37 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.036 was released 5 days before
   • Author: JJATRIA
10. OrePAN2 - Yet another DarkPAN manager.
    • Version: 0.54 on 2026-08-23, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.53 was released 9 months, 22 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
11. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20260826 on 2026-08-25, with 149 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20260808 was released 17 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
12. Perlanet - A program for creating programs that aggregate web feeds
    • Version: v3.3.5 on 2026-08-24, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v3.3.4 was released 9 months, 25 days before
    • Author: DAVECROSS
13. SNMP::Info - OO Interface to Network devices and MIBs through SNMP
    • Version: 3.977001 on 2026-08-26, with 42 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.977000 was released 5 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
14. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990196 on 2026-08-25, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990195 was released 3 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
15. Statocles - A static site generator
    • Version: 0.099 on 2026-08-23, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.098 was released 5 years, 4 months, 11 days before
    • Author: PREACTION
16. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302224 on 2026-08-24, with 201 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302223 was released 8 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
17. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000177 on 2026-08-26, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000176 was released the same day
    • Author: EXODIST

(dcxxxi) metacpan weekly report - Punk

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 41

Week's winner: Punk (+6)

Build date: 2026/08/29 14:00:26 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• AmberDB - High-performance, schema-driven NoSQL engine with ACID transactions and precomputed inverted indexing for Perl
• Circle::Miner - The miner module for circle chain sdk.
• Circle::User - the user module for Circle::Chain SDK
• Crypt::Age - Perl implementation of age encryption (age-encryption.org)
• Net::Async::Blockchain - base for blockchain subscription clients.
• Open::API - OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 server and client
• PAGI::FastAPI - Asynchronous, Type-Safe Micro-Framework with Dependency Injection and OpenAPI & Swagger UI
• PostScript::Columns - Squeeze a text file into multiple columns.
• Punk::OpenTelemetry - OpenTelemetry for Punk: traces, metrics and logs over OTLP
• Schedule::Activity - Generate activity schedules
• Stats::LikeR - Get basic statistical functions, like in R, but with Perl using XS for performance
• Test2::Tools::HTTP - Test HTTP / PSGI

Increasing its reputation:

• Attribute::Handlers::Clean (+1=2)
• Data::Checks (+1=8)
• Data::Fake (+1=18)
• Devel::Hide (+1=12)
• FFI::Platypus (+1=71)
• FFI::Raw (+1=27)
• Finance::MtGox (+1=2)
• Gnuplot::Builder (+1=6)
• Hyperman (+1=3)
• Lucy (+1=16)
• MCE (+1=113)
• namespace::autoclean (+1=29)
• Net::MQTT::Simple (+1=5)
• Object::Pad (+1=50)
• OpenMP::Environment (+1=4)
• Promise::XS (+1=9)
• Punk (+6=6)
• Punk::Queue (+2=2)
• Teng (+1=28)
• Test::Time (+1=5)
• URI::Encode (+1=4)
• utf8::all (+1=32)
• XS::Tutorial (+1=15)

(dcxiv) 21 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: v1.1.5 on 2026-08-16, with 179 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v1.1.4 was released 1 month, 17 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.105000 on 2026-08-20, with 905 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.104000 was released 1 day before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. App::sbozyp - a package manager for Slackware's SlackBuilds.org
   • Version: v1.9.0 on 2026-08-18, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v1.8.0 was released 6 days before
   • Author: NHUBBARD
4. CallBackery - CallBackery is a Mojolicious+Qooxdoo Framework for building Web Applications
   • Version: v0.59.0 on 2026-08-20, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v0.58.4 was released 19 days before
   • Author: OETIKER
5. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260816.002 on 2026-08-16, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260811.001 was released 5 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
6. GD - Perl interface to the libgd graphics library
   • Version: 2.91 on 2026-08-16, with 32 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.90 was released the same day
   • Author: RURBAN
7. Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Client - Google Ads API Client Library for Perl
   • Version: v34.0.0 on 2026-08-19, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v33.1.0 was released 7 days before
   • Author: MATTIAT
8. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.035 on 2026-08-19, with 68 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.034 was released 11 days before
   • Author: TONYC
9. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
   • Version: 0.645 on 2026-08-16, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.644 was released 3 days before
   • Author: ETHER
10. Lucy - Lucy search engine library.
    • Version: v0.7.0 on 2026-08-17, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.7.0_3 was released the same day
    • Author: KARMAN
11. MCE - Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities
    • Version: 1.904 on 2026-08-21, with 113 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.903 was released the same day
    • Author: MARIOROY
12. MCE::Shared - MCE extension for sharing data supporting threads and processes
    • Version: 1.894 on 2026-08-21, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.893 was released 1 year, 11 months, 11 days before
    • Author: MARIOROY
13. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20260820 on 2026-08-21, with 46 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20260803 was released 17 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
14. OpenTelemetry - A Perl implementation of the OpenTelemetry standard
    • Version: 0.036 on 2026-08-20, with 37 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.035 was released 29 days before
    • Author: JJATRIA
15. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.106 on 2026-08-18, with 105 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.105 was released 1 day before
    • Author: ETJ
16. SNMP::Info - OO Interface to Network devices and MIBs through SNMP
    • Version: 3.977000 on 2026-08-20, with 42 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.975000 was released 5 months, 27 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
17. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990195 on 2026-08-21, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990194 was released the same day
    • Author: KIMOTO
18. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000175 on 2026-08-20, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000174 was released 2 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
19. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.36 on 2026-08-19, with 121 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.35 was released 2 months, 4 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
20. Variable::Magic - Associate user-defined magic to variables from Perl.
    • Version: 0.65 on 2026-08-20, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.64 was released 2 years, 5 months, 1 day before
    • Author: VPIT
21. WebService::Fastly - an interface to most facets of the [Fastly API](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/).
    • Version: 15.01 on 2026-08-18, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 15.00 was released 1 month before
    • Author: FASTLY

(dcxiii) 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.103000 on 2026-08-14, with 903 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.102001 was released 3 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. App::rainbarf - CPU/RAM/battery stats chart bar for tmux (and GNU screen)
   • Version: 1.5 on 2026-08-15, with 1204 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.4 was released 9 years, 11 months, 8 days before
   • Author: SYP
3. App::sbozyp - a package manager for Slackware's SlackBuilds.org
   • Version: v1.8.0 on 2026-08-11, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v1.7.2 was released 3 months, 13 days before
   • Author: NHUBBARD
4. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
   • Version: 1.63 on 2026-08-14, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.62 was released 2 months, 27 days before
   • Author: ROBM
5. Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication - Infrastructure plugin for the Catalyst authentication framework.
   • Version: 0.10028 on 2026-08-08, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.10_027 was released 2 months before
   • Author: ETHER
6. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260811.001 on 2026-08-11, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260809.001 was released 2 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
7. Crypt::OpenSSL::X509 - Perl extension to OpenSSL's X509 API.
   • Version: 2.1.5 on 2026-08-10, with 27 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.1.4 was released 1 day before
   • Author: JONASBN
8. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.091 on 2026-08-10, with 54 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.090_004 was released 1 day before
   • Author: MIK
9. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
   • Version: 1.652 on 2026-08-15, with 284 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.651 was released 1 month, 1 day before
   • Author: HMBRAND
10. GD - Perl interface to the libgd graphics library
    • Version: 2.90 on 2026-08-15, with 32 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.87 was released the same day
    • Author: RURBAN
11. Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Client - Google Ads API Client Library for Perl
    • Version: v33.1.0 on 2026-08-12, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v33.0.0 was released 19 days before
    • Author: MATTIAT
12. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
    • Version: 0.644 on 2026-08-12, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.643 was released the same day
    • Author: ETHER
13. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
    • Version: 1.58 on 2026-08-14, with 114 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.57 was released 3 years, 9 months, 24 days before
    • Author: MSCHILLI
14. Module::Metadata - Gather package and POD information from perl module files
    • Version: 1.000040 on 2026-08-10, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000039 was released 4 months, 7 days before
    • Author: ETHER
15. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.49 on 2026-08-09, with 514 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 9.48 was released 26 days before
    • Author: SRI
16. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
    • Version: 20260813 on 2026-08-13, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20250602 was released 1 year, 2 months, 11 days before
    • Author: LWP
17. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
    • Version: 0.147 on 2026-08-13, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.146 was released 6 days before
    • Author: ETHER
18. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990192 on 2026-08-12, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990191 was released 1 month, 18 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
19. Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
    • Version: 0.64 on 2026-08-11, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.63 was released 2 days before
    • Author: JDB
20. Workflow - Simple, flexible system to implement workflows
    • Version: 2.11 on 2026-08-10, with 35 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.10 was released 29 days before
    • Author: JONASBN

(dcxii) 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: 2.444 on 2026-08-04, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.443 was released 1 month, 10 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::perlimports - Make implicit imports explicit
   • Version: 0.000061 on 2026-08-06, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.000060 was released 3 months before
   • Author: OALDERS
3. Config::IniFiles - A module for reading .ini-style configuration files.
   • Version: 3.003000 on 2026-08-06, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.002000 was released 1 month, 21 days before
   • Author: SHLOMIF
4. Convert::Pheno - Convert clinical and phenotypic data between supported models
   • Version: 0.34 on 2026-08-03, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.33 was released 3 days before
   • Author: MRUEDA
5. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260807.001 on 2026-08-07, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260803.002 was released 4 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
6. Cucumber::TagExpressions - A library for parsing and evaluating cucumber tag expressions (filters)
   • Version: 11.0.1 on 2026-08-05, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 11.0.0 was released 13 days before
   • Author: CUKEBOT
7. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.034 on 2026-08-07, with 68 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.033 was released 1 month before
   • Author: TONYC
8. Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit
   • Version: 0.41 on 2026-08-04, with 21 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.40 was released 5 years, 4 months, 14 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
9. Marpa::R2 - Release 2 of Marpa
   • Version: 14.000000 on 2026-08-03, with 49 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 13.003_000 was released 4 days before
   • Author: JKEGL
10. Math::Prime::Util - Utilities related to prime numbers, including fast sieves and factoring
    • Version: 0.75 on 2026-08-08, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.75 was released the same day
    • Author: DANAJ
11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20260803 on 2026-08-03, with 46 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20260720 was released 12 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
12. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
    • Version: 0.146 on 2026-08-07, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.145 was released 3 days before
    • Author: ETHER
13. less - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.042003 on 2026-08-02, with 2310 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.040005 was released the same day
    • Author: SHAY
14. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20260808 on 2026-08-07, with 149 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20260705 was released 1 month, 3 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
15. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 5.010 on 2026-08-05, with 65 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.009 was released 19 days before
    • Author: YVES
16. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 5.010 on 2026-08-05, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.009 was released 19 days before
    • Author: YVES
17. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.010 on 2026-08-05, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.009 was released 19 days before
    • Author: YVES
18. Sidef - The Sidef Programming Language - A modern, high-level programming language
    • Version: 26.08 on 2026-08-07, with 126 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 26.07 was released 1 month, 4 days before
    • Author: TRIZEN
19. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v12.6.0 on 2026-08-06, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v12.5.0 was released 1 month, 3 days before
    • Author: DANBERR
20. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.66 on 2026-08-08, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.65 was released 2 days before
    • Author: YOREEK

(dcxxx) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 78

Build date: 2026/08/08 12:55:00 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Shotgun - Shoots holes in files
• AI::Anthropic - Perl interface to Anthropic Claude API
• Apache::Session::Generate::Random - use system randomness for generating session ids
• API::Docker - Perl client for the Docker Engine API
• API::Instagram - Object Oriented Interface for the Instagram REST and Search APIs
• Common::CodingTools - Common constants and functions for programmers
• Container::Buildah - wrapper around containers/buildah tool for multi-stage builds of OCI/Docker-compatible Linux containers
• Crypt::SysRandom::XS - Perl interface to system randomness, XS version
• Crypt::xxHash - xxHash implementation for Perl
• Dancer2::Plugin::Feed - Easy to generate feed (RSS or atom) for Dancer2 applications.
• Data::BloomFilter::Shared - shared-memory Bloom filter for Linux
• DBIx::Class::Schema::GraphQL - Auto-generate a GraphQL schema from a DBIx::Class schema
• Devel::MAT::Dumper - write a heap dump file for later analysis
• Eshu - Indentation fixer for C, Perl, XS, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and POD source files
• GraphQL::Houtou - XS-backed GraphQL parser and execution toolkit for Perl
• PersonName::Format - CLDR person-name formatter for Perl
• Regexp::Pattern - Convention/framework for modules that contain collection of regexes
• Return::Set - Return a value optionally validated against a strict schema

Increasing its reputation:

• App::FatPacker (+1=49)
• App::HTTPThis (+1=26)
• App::Test::Generator (+1=2)
• Atomic::Pipe (+1=3)
• Bluesky (+1=2)
• Class::Factory (+1=2)
• Claude::Agent (+1=2)
• Container::Builder (+1=2)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+2=50)
• Crypt::SysRandom (+2=2)
• CryptX (+1=54)
• Data::Checks (+2=7)
• DBI (+1=284)
• DBIx::QuickDB (+1=4)
• DBIx::QuickORM (+2=3)
• Devel::Cover (+1=107)
• Devel::MAT (+1=32)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=189)
• Dist::Zilla::App::Command::cover (+1=21)
• EV::Future (+1=2)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=54)
• Getopt::Class (+1=3)
• HTML::Object (+1=2)
• Hyperman (+2=2)
• IO::K8s (+1=6)
• Kubernetes::REST (+1=3)
• Langertha (+1=3)
• lazy (+1=17)
• List::Compare (+1=16)
• LRU::Cache (+1=2)
• LWP::Protocol::https (+1=23)
• Markdown::Perl (+1=4)
• mb (+1=4)
• Module::Load (+1=33)
• Module::Pluggable (+1=27)
• Mojolicious (+1=514)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::BarefootJS (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI::Modern (+1=8)
• Neovim::Ext (+1=2)
• Net::API::Stripe (+1=6)
• OpenAPI::Modern (+1=6)
• PAGI (+1=9)
• Perl::Critic::TooMuchCode (+1=9)
• Perl::Dist::APPerl (+1=9)
• Rex (+1=89)
• String::RewritePrefix (+1=4)
• Sys::Export (+2=2)
• Test::CPANfile (+1=4)
• Test::Harness (+1=67)
• Test::JSON::Schema::Acceptance (+1=2)
• Time::Str (+1=2)
• Tree::RB::XS (+1=6)
• Type::Tiny (+1=150)
• XS::Parse::Sublike (+1=9)

(dcxi) 11 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::zipdetails - Display details about the internal structure of Zip files
   • Version: 4.009 on 2026-07-25, with 67 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.008 was released 1 month, 9 days before
   • Author: PMQS
2. CallBackery - CallBackery is a Mojolicious+Qooxdoo Framework for building Web Applications
   • Version: v0.58.4 on 2026-07-31, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v0.58.3 was released 1 day before
   • Author: OETIKER
3. Convert::Pheno - Convert clinical and phenotypic data between supported models
   • Version: 0.33 on 2026-07-31, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.32 was released 8 days before
   • Author: MRUEDA
4. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260726.001 on 2026-07-26, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260720.001 was released 5 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
5. Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
   • Version: 0.56 on 2026-07-31, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.55 was released 2 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
6. Module::Pluggable - automatically give your module the ability to have plugins
   • Version: 6.4 on 2026-07-25, with 26 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.3 was released 1 year, 6 months, 15 days before
   • Author: SIMONW
7. Net::BitTorrent - Pure Perl BitTorrent Client
   • Version: v2.1.1 on 2026-07-25, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v2.1.0 was released 6 days before
   • Author: SANKO
8. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
   • Version: 0.143 on 2026-07-28, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.142 was released 8 days before
   • Author: ETHER
9. Plerd - Ultralight blogging with Markdown and Dropbox
   • Version: 2.000 on 2026-07-25, with 117 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.903 was released 29 days before
   • Author: JMAC
10. Redis::Fast - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 0.39 on 2026-07-27, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.38 was released the same day
    • Author: SHOGO
11. YAMLStar - YAML 1.2 loader via FFI
    • Version: v0.1.18 on 2026-07-29, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.1.17 was released 7 days before
    • Author: INGY