(dcxxxiv) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 151

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2026/10/18 14:01:21 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Snowball::Norwegian - Porters stemming algorithm for norwegian.
• WebService::TypeSafe - Perl client for TypeSafe AI's System One (Jev) API

Increasing its reputation:

• Algorithm::BloomFilter (+1=5)
• Amazon::API (+1=2)
• AmberDB (+1=2)
• App::ElasticSearch::Utilities (+1=8)
• App::Netdisco (+1=19)
• App::Nopaste (+1=31)
• App::perlimports (+1=23)
• App::PP::Autolink (+1=2)
• App::rdapper (+1=2)
• App::Software::License (+1=4)
• App::Spec (+1=5)
• App::Test::Generator (+1=3)
• Archive::Tar (+1=18)
• AsposeCellsCloud::CellsApi (+1=2)
• Astro::SpaceTrack (+1=2)
• At (+1=2)
• BioX::Seq (+1=4)
• Bluesky (+1=3)
• Business::ISBN::Data (+1=4)
• CallBackery (+1=5)
• CGI::Info (+1=3)
• CGI::Lingua (+1=2)
• Chem::Structure::Parser (+1=2)
• Class::XSAccessor (+1=30)
• Claude::Agent (+1=3)
• CLI::Simple (+1=2)
• Clone (+1=34)
• Compress::Raw::Bzip2 (+1=4)
• Compress::Raw::Lzma (+1=2)
• Compress::Raw::Zlib (+1=4)
• Config::Model (+1=4)
• CPAN::2.42 (+1=0)
• CPAN::FindDependencies (+1=2)
• CPAN::Maker (+1=2)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=51)
• CPANSA::DB (+1=5)
• Crypt::Age (+1=2)
• Data::BloomFilter::Shared (+1=2)
• Data::HashMap (+1=3)
• Data::HashMap::Shared (+1=2)
• Data::PubSub::Shared (+1=2)
• DateTime::Lite (+1=6)
• DateTime::TimeZone (+1=23)
• DB_File (+1=9)
• DBD::DB2 (+1=4)
• Devel::CallParser (+1=7)
• Devel::Camelcadedb (+1=8)
• Devel::ebug (+1=13)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=202)
• Devel::tkdb (+1=2)
• Env::Assert (+1=5)
• Env::Dot (+1=10)
• Excel::Writer::XLSX (+1=67)
• Exception::Class (+1=29)
• Feersum (+1=16)
• FFI::Platypus::Lang::V (+1=2)
• FindBin::libs (+1=10)
• Future (+1=66)
• Geo::Coder::Free (+1=4)
• Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic (+1=14)
• Google::RestApi (+1=6)
• Graph (+1=27)
• HealthCheck (+1=4)
• Imager (+1=69)
• Imager::File::JPEG (+1=3)
• IO::Compress (+1=21)
• IO::Compress::Lzma (+1=2)
• IO::K8s (+1=7)
• JSON::Schema::Modern (+1=12)
• Kubernetes::REST (+1=4)
• Langertha (+1=4)
• LaTeX::Replicase (+1=2)
• Mac::PropertyList (+1=4)
• Mail::Milter::Authentication (+1=2)
• Map::Tube::Plugin::Graph (+1=3)
• Math::SZaru (+1=2)
• MIDI::RtController::Filter::CC (+1=2)
• Minilla (+1=65)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::BarefootJS (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::DirectoryServer (+1=3)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI::Modern (+1=9)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::WithCSRFProtection (+1=4)
• MooseX::Getopt (+1=22)
• Music::Percussion::Tabla (+1=2)
• Net::Async::HTTP (+1=9)
• Net::Curl (+1=21)
• Net::Flickr::API (+1=2)
• Net::IDN::Encode::2.591 (+1=0)
• Net::IP::LPM (+1=4)
• Net::OpenSSH::More (+1=2)
• Net::QUIC (+1=3)
• Net::Whois::Raw (+1=12)
• NetAddr::IP (+1=15)
• Object::Proto (+1=3)
• Object::Proto::Sugar (+1=2)
• Object::Remote (+1=21)
• Ogg::Vorbis::Header (+1=2)
• OpenAPI::Modern (+1=7)
• OpenTelemetry (+1=6)
• OpenTelemetry::SDK::0.029 (+1=0)
• Package::Stash::XS (+1=8)
• PAGI (+1=10)
• Params::Validate::Strict (+1=3)
• perl (+1=447)
• Perl::Dist::Strawberry (+1=12)
• Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy (+1=10)
• Protocol::Sys::Virt (+1=3)
• QMail::QueueHandler (+1=3)
• Quiq (+1=5)
• Redis::Namespace (+1=3)
• Restish::Client (+1=2)
• Riji (+1=5)
• RT::Extension::Slack (+1=2)
• Shell::Config::Generate (+1=4)
• SimpleFlow (+1=2)
• SNMP::Info (+1=9)
• Software::License (+1=20)
• SPVM::Go (+1=2)
• SPVM::IO (+1=2)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=79)
• Statistics::CaseResampling (+1=3)
• Stats::LikeR (+1=2)
• Struct::Codec (+1=2)
• Sub::Private (+1=3)
• Switch::Declare (+1=2)
• Sys::Async::Virt (+1=2)
• Task::Kensho::Async (+1=4)
• Task::Kensho::DBDev (+1=2)
• Task::Kensho::Exceptions (+1=4)
• Task::Kensho::Hackery (+1=3)
• Task::Kensho::ModuleDev (+1=4)
• Task::Kensho::WebCrawling (+1=2)
• Tcl::Tk (+1=4)
• Test::Mockingbird (+1=2)
• Test::Permissions (+1=2)
• Test::Pod (+1=26)
• Text::ASCII::Convert (+1=4)
• Text::Markdown::Discount (+1=12)
• Text::Markup (+1=13)
• Time::Piece (+1=70)
• Travel::Routing::DE::VRR (+1=2)
• URI::db (+1=12)
• URI::PackageURL (+1=2)
• WebService::MusicBrainz (+1=2)
• Webservice::Rosary::API (+1=2)
• XML::Feed (+1=12)
• XML::Twig (+1=65)
• YAML::PP (+1=21)
• YAMLScript (+1=3)

(dcxxii) 22 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: 2.112000 on 2026-10-14, with 930 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.111000 was released 4 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20261013.002 on 2026-10-13, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260622.001 was released 3 months, 20 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
3. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.80 on 2026-10-14, with 50 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.53 was released 16 days before
   • Author: RURBAN
4. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20261011.003 on 2026-10-12, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20261004.001 was released 6 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
5. Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler
   • Version: 6.16 on 2026-10-16, with 201 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.15 was released 6 months, 15 days before
   • Author: JKEENAN
6. Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Client - Google Ads API Client Library for Perl
   • Version: v36.0.0 on 2026-10-14, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v35.1.0 was released 20 days before
   • Author: MATTIAT
7. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.039 on 2026-10-15, with 68 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.038 was released 8 days before
   • Author: TONYC
8. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
   • Version: 0.651 on 2026-10-11, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.650 was released 23 days before
   • Author: ETHER
9. Mac::PropertyList - work with Mac plists at a low level
   • Version: 1.608 on 2026-10-16, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.607_01 was released 5 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
10. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
    • Version: v3.3.2 on 2026-10-11, with 96 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v3.3.1 was released 4 days before
    • Author: SONGMU
11. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.50 on 2026-10-16, with 516 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 9.49 was released 2 months, 6 days before
    • Author: SRI
12. Object::Remote - Call methods on objects in other processes or on other hosts
    • Version: 0.005004 on 2026-10-11, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.005003 was released the same day
    • Author: EHUELS
13. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
    • Version: 0.150 on 2026-10-15, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.149 was released 27 days before
    • Author: ETHER
14. OpenTelemetry::SDK - An implementation of the OpenTelemetry SDK for Perl
    • Version: 0.100 on 2026-10-11, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.029 was released 8 days before
    • Author: JJATRIA
15. Plack - Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
    • Version: 1.0055 on 2026-10-13, with 494 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.0054 was released 5 months, 8 days before
    • Author: MIYAGAWA
16. Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy - Supports app to run as a reverse proxy backend
    • Version: 0.17 on 2026-10-13, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.16 was released 7 years, 7 months, 22 days before
    • Author: MIYAGAWA
17. SNMP::Info - OO Interface to Network devices and MIBs through SNMP
    • Version: 3.979000 on 2026-10-14, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.978002 was released 6 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
18. Text::CSV_XS - Comma-Separated Values manipulation routines
    • Version: 1.65 on 2026-10-15, with 105 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.64 was released 3 months, 22 days before
    • Author: HMBRAND
19. Text::Markup - Parse text markup into HTML
    • Version: 0.43 on 2026-10-11, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.42 was released 14 days before
    • Author: DWHEELER
20. XML::Feed - XML Syndication Feed Support
    • Version: v1.0.2 on 2026-10-11, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v1.0.1 was released 1 month, 3 days before
    • Author: DAVECROSS
21. YAML::PP - YAML 1.2 Processor
    • Version: v0.43.0 on 2026-10-13, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.42.0 was released 1 day before
    • Author: TINITA
22. YAMLStar - YAML 1.2 loader via FFI
    • Version: v0.1.25 on 2026-10-16, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.1.24 was released 1 day before
    • Author: INGY

(dcxxi) 15 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: 2.111000 on 2026-10-09, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.110000 was released 4 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. App::perlimports - Make implicit imports explicit
   • Version: 0.000067 on 2026-10-07, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.000066 was released 2 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
3. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20261004.001 on 2026-10-05, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20261002.009 was released 1 day before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
4. Devel::Camelcadedb - Perl5 debugger for Intellij IDE
   • Version: v2026.2 on 2026-10-05, with 23 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v2026.1 was released 1 month, 8 days before
   • Author: HURRICUP
5. Devel::ebug - A simple, extensible Perl debugger
   • Version: 0.69 on 2026-10-03, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.68 was released 1 day before
   • Author: PLICEASE
6. Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic - fast and complete protocol buffer implementation
   • Version: 0.44 on 2026-10-07, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.43 was released 2 years, 4 months, 2 days before
   • Author: MBARBON
7. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.038 on 2026-10-07, with 68 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.037 was released 7 days before
   • Author: TONYC
8. IO::Compress - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.225 on 2026-10-09, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.224 was released 1 month, 12 days before
   • Author: PMQS
9. Mac::PropertyList - work with Mac plists at a low level
   • Version: 1.607 on 2026-10-05, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.606_01 was released 7 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
10. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
    • Version: v3.3.1 on 2026-10-06, with 96 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v3.3.0 was released the same day
    • Author: SONGMU
11. Object::Remote - Call methods on objects in other processes or on other hosts
    • Version: 0.005002 on 2026-10-09, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.005001 was released 3 months, 5 days before
    • Author: EHUELS
12. OpenTelemetry - A Perl implementation of the OpenTelemetry standard
    • Version: 0.039 on 2026-10-03, with 37 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.038 was released the same day
    • Author: JJATRIA
13. SNMP::Info - OO Interface to Network devices and MIBs through SNMP
    • Version: 3.978002 on 2026-10-07, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.978001 was released the same day
    • Author: OLIVER
14. Test::Differences - Test strings and data structures and show differences if not ok
    • Version: 0.73 on 2026-10-03, with 21 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.72 was released 1 year, 2 months, 27 days before
    • Author: DCANTRELL
15. YAMLStar - YAML 1.2 loader via FFI
    • Version: v0.1.23 on 2026-10-04, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.1.21 was released 25 days before
    • Author: INGY

(dcxxxiii) metacpan weekly report - Data::Printer

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 154

Week's winner: Data::Printer (+3)

Build date: 2026/10/10 14:06:45 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Catalyst::Plugin::Profile::DBI::Log - Capture queries executed during a Catalyst route with DBI::Log
• Chem::Structure::Parser - Read a molecular structure file into a hash of hashes, sequences and all, using XS for the coordinate section
• DBIx::Loop - non-blocking DBI on your event loop
• HTML::Defang - Cleans HTML as well as CSS of scripting and other executable contents, and neutralises XSS attacks.
• HTTP::API::Core - Small foundation for JSON HTTP API clients
• JMAP::Tester - a JMAP client made for testing JMAP servers
• JQ::XS - Perl wrapper for libjq
• MIDI::RtController::Filter::CC - Control-change based RtController filters
• RT::Extension::Slack - Send and sync RT ticket notifications to Slack
• Struct::Codec - a Perl structure to bytes and back, with nothing lost
• Test::Permissions - Find out whether chmod can really take access away, so tests know when to skip
• Web::Authn - Server-side WebAuthn / passkeys
• Zuzu - API helpers for evaluating ZuzuScript

Increasing its reputation:

• ack (+1=133)
• App::cpanminus (+1=289)
• App::cpm (+1=79)
• App::FatPacker (+1=50)
• App::perlbrew (+1=182)
• Attean (+1=8)
• autodie (+1=65)
• autovivification (+1=31)
• Carton (+1=131)
• CHI (+1=66)
• Code::TidyAll (+1=41)
• Config::Any (+1=27)
• Config::General (+1=32)
• CPAN::Meta (+1=29)
• CPAN::Mini (+1=43)
• CPAN::Uploader (+1=26)
• CSS::Minifier::XS (+1=9)
• Dancer2 (+1=140)
• Data::Dump (+1=43)
• Data::Dumper::Concise (+1=22)
• Data::Printer (+3=158)
• DateTime (+1=224)
• DateTime::Lite (+1=5)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=107)
• DBI (+1=285)
• DBIx::Class (+1=293)
• DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader (+1=46)
• Devel::Confess (+1=38)
• Devel::Cover (+1=108)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=201)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=190)
• Email::MIME::Kit (+1=11)
• Email::Sender (+1=53)
• Email::Simple (+1=24)
• Email::Stuffer (+1=38)
• Email::Valid (+1=35)
• Future (+1=65)
• HTML::FormHandler (+1=45)
• HTML::Tree (+1=38)
• HTTP::BrowserDetect (+1=28)
• HTTP::Thin (+1=6)
• HTTP::Tiny (+1=117)
• Imager (+1=68)
• IO::All (+1=71)
• IO::Async (+1=83)
• JSON::MaybeXS (+1=50)
• JSON::Schema::Modern (+1=11)
• libwww::perl (+1=177)
• Linux::Event (+1=3)
• List::Categorize (+1=4)
• local::lib (+1=99)
• Log::Any (+1=70)
• Log::Contextual (+1=14)
• Log::Dispatch (+1=50)
• Log::Log4perl (+1=111)
• Mango (+1=44)
• MCE (+1=114)
• MIME::Types (+1=10)
• Modern::Perl (+1=52)
• Module::Build::Tiny (+1=17)
• Module::CoreList (+1=47)
• Mojolicious (+1=516)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::EventSource (+1=5)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Route (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::RoutesAuthDBI (+1=6)
• Monitoring::Plugin (+1=6)
• Moose (+1=336)
• MooseX::Aliases (+1=10)
• MooseX::NonMoose (+1=17)
• MooseX::Role::Parameterized (+1=24)
• MooseX::SimpleConfig (+1=6)
• MooseX::StrictConstructor (+1=19)
• namespace::autoclean (+1=30)
• Net::QUIC (+1=2)
• Net::Whois::Raw (+1=11)
• Package::Variant (+1=8)
• PAGI::FastAPI (+1=3)
• Parallel::ForkManager (+1=103)
• PathTools (+1=88)
• Perl::Critic (+1=138)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=150)
• PerlPowerTools (+1=47)
• Pinto (+1=67)
• Plack (+1=241)
• Pod::Readme (+1=10)
• POE (+1=57)
• Redis (+1=44)
• Reply (+1=66)
• Smart::Comments (+1=45)
• Spreadsheet::Read (+1=32)
• SQL::Translator (+1=45)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=50)
• Task::Catalyst (+2=13)
• Task::Kensho (+2=125)
• Task::Kensho::CLI (+1=3)
• Task::Kensho::Config (+1=4)
• Task::Kensho::Dates (+1=2)
• Task::Kensho::Email (+1=2)
• Task::Kensho::ExcelCSV (+1=2)
• Task::Kensho::Logging (+1=3)
• Task::Kensho::OOP (+1=3)
• Task::Kensho::Scalability (+1=2)
• Task::Kensho::Testing (+1=3)
• Task::Kensho::Toolchain (+1=3)
• Task::Kensho::WebDev (+1=2)
• Task::Kensho::XML (+1=2)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=150)
• Term::ProgressBar::Simple (+1=10)
• Test::Deep (+1=56)
• Test::Fatal (+1=41)
• Test::Memory::Cycle (+1=13)
• Test::Pod::Coverage (+1=27)
• Test::Requires (+1=19)
• Test::Simple (+2=203)
• Test::Warnings (+1=19)
• Test::WWW::Selenium (+1=19)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=105)
• Text::Markdown (+1=25)
• Time::HiRes (+1=66)
• Time::Moment (+1=79)
• Time::ParseDate (+1=5)
• Time::Warp (+2=2)
• Try::Tiny (+1=182)
• Type::Tiny (+1=151)
• URI::Find (+1=12)
• version (+1=24)
• Web::Simple (+1=29)
• Win32API::File (+1=2)
• WWW::Mechanize (+1=105)
• WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder (+1=3)
• XML::LibXML (+1=104)
• XML::LibXSLT (+1=12)
• XML::RSS (+1=11)
• XML::SAX (+1=11)
• XML::SAX::Writer (+1=3)

(dcxx) 22 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: 2.109002 on 2026-10-02, with 922 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.109001 was released 13 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. App::rdapper - a command-line RDAP client.
   • Version: 1.26 on 2026-10-02, with 23 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.25 was released 4 months, 25 days before
   • Author: GBROWN
3. Archive::Tar - Manipulates TAR archives
   • Version: 3.14 on 2026-10-01, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.12 was released 3 months, 29 days before
   • Author: BINGOS
4. Clone - recursively copy Perl datatypes
   • Version: 0.51 on 2026-10-02, with 33 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.50_01 was released the same day
   • Author: ATOOMIC
5. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.53 on 2026-09-28, with 50 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.52 was released 16 days before
   • Author: RURBAN
6. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 2.2.2 on 2026-09-28, with 139 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.2.1 was released 9 days before
   • Author: CROMEDOME
7. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.71 on 2026-09-30, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.70 was released 10 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
8. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
   • Version: 1.655 on 2026-09-30, with 284 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.654 was released 5 days before
   • Author: HMBRAND
9. Devel::ebug - A simple, extensible Perl debugger
   • Version: 0.68 on 2026-10-02, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.67 was released 5 days before
   • Author: PLICEASE
10. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.040 on 2026-09-26, with 189 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.039 was released 13 days before
    • Author: RJBS
11. Exception::Class - A module that allows you to declare real exception classes in Perl
    • Version: 1.46 on 2026-09-27, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.45 was released 5 years, 4 months, 25 days before
    • Author: DROLSKY
12. Future - represent an operation awaiting completion
    • Version: 0.53 on 2026-09-30, with 65 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.52 was released 1 year, 2 months, 18 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
13. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
    • Version: 1.037 on 2026-09-30, with 68 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.036 was released 12 days before
    • Author: TONYC
14. Moose - A postmodern object system for Perl 5
    • Version: 2.4001 on 2026-10-01, with 335 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.4000 was released 1 year, 2 months, 27 days before
    • Author: ETHER
15. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
    • Version: 0.59 on 2026-09-30, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.59_2 was released the same day
    • Author: SYP
16. SNMP::Info - OO Interface to Network devices and MIBs through SNMP
• Version: 3.978000 on 2026-09-29, with 42 votes
• Previous CPAN version: 3.977001 was released 1 month, 3 days before
• Author: OLIVER
17. Text::Markup - Parse text markup into HTML
    • Version: 0.42 on 2026-09-26, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.41 was released 9 months, 8 days before
    • Author: DWHEELER
18. URI::db - Database URIs
    • Version: 0.24 on 2026-09-26, with 52 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.23 was released 1 year, 8 months, 17 days before
    • Author: DWHEELER
19. WebService::Fastly - an interface to most facets of the [Fastly API](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/).
    • Version: 15.02 on 2026-09-28, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 15.01 was released 1 month, 9 days before
    • Author: FASTLY
20. XML::Twig - XML, The Perl Way
    • Version: 3.55 on 2026-10-01, with 64 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.54 was released 1 year, 3 months, 19 days before
    • Author: MIROD
21. Zonemaster::Engine::Exception::NormalExit - run Zonemaster tests from the command line
    • Version: 8.000003 on 2026-10-01, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 8.000002 was released 3 months, 1 day before
    • Author: ZNMSTR
22. Zonemaster::Engine - A tool to check the quality of a DNS zone
    • Version: 9.000001 on 2026-10-01, with 35 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 9.000000 was released 3 months, 1 day before
    • Author: ZNMSTR

(dcxix) 12 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. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
   • Version: 1.66 on 2026-09-21, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.65 was released 2 days before
   • Author: ROBM
2. Convert::Pheno - Convert clinical and phenotypic data between supported models
   • Version: 0.35 on 2026-09-19, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.34 was released 1 month, 15 days before
   • Author: MRUEDA
3. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260923.001 on 2026-09-23, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260920.003 was released 3 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
4. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.70 on 2026-09-20, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.69 was released 2 months, 11 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
5. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
   • Version: 1.654 on 2026-09-25, with 284 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.653 was released 15 days before
   • Author: HMBRAND
6. Devel::ebug - A simple, extensible Perl debugger
   • Version: 0.65 on 2026-09-22, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.64 was released 5 years, 2 months, 11 days before
   • Author: PLICEASE
7. Email::Sender - a library for sending email
   • Version: 2.603 on 2026-09-21, with 56 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.602 was released the same day
   • Author: RJBS
8. Feersum - A fast PSGI/HTTP server for Perl based on EV/libev
   • Version: 1.507 on 2026-09-25, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.506_68 was released 2 days before
   • Author: EGOR
9. Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Client - Google Ads API Client Library for Perl
   • Version: v35.1.0 on 2026-09-23, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v35.0.0 was released 13 days before
   • Author: MATTIAT
10. HTML::Parser - HTML parser class
    • Version: 3.86 on 2026-09-19, with 51 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.85 was released 4 months before
    • Author: OALDERS
11. MIME::Body - Tools to manipulate MIME messages
    • Version: 5.519 on 2026-09-22, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.518 was released 26 days before
    • Author: DSKOLL
12. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20260924 on 2026-09-24, with 46 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20260820 was released 1 month, 3 days before
    • Author: BINGOS

(dcxviii) 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. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.88 on 2026-09-19, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.87 was released 7 days before
   • Author: PLICEASE
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.109001 on 2026-09-18, with 915 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.109000 was released 4 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. App::sbozyp - A package manager for Slackware's SlackBuilds.org
   • Version: v1.10.2 on 2026-09-11, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v1.10.1 was released 7 days before
   • Author: NHUBBARD
4. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
   • Version: 1.65 on 2026-09-18, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.64 was released the same day
   • Author: ROBM
5. CallBackery - CallBackery is a Mojolicious+Qooxdoo Framework for building Web Applications
   • Version: v0.61.0 on 2026-09-18, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v0.60.1 was released 8 days before
   • Author: OETIKER
6. CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
   • Version: 2.41 on 2026-09-12, with 39 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.41-TRIAL was released 6 days before
   • Author: ANDK
7. Cpanel::JSON::XS - cPanel fork of JSON::XS, fast and correct serializing
   • Version: 4.52 on 2026-09-12, with 50 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.51 was released the same day
   • Author: RURBAN
8. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260914.001 on 2026-09-15, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260908.001 was released 6 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
9. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 2.2.1 on 2026-09-19, with 139 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.2.0 was released 2 days before
   • Author: CROMEDOME
10. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
    • Version: 6.039 on 2026-09-13, with 189 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.038 was released 8 days before
    • Author: RJBS
11. FFI::Platypus - Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.
    • Version: 2.12 on 2026-09-11, with 71 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.11 was released 7 months, 30 days before
    • Author: PLICEASE
12. FFI::TinyCC - Tiny C Compiler for FFI
    • Version: 0.31 on 2026-09-19, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.30 was released 6 years, 2 months, 11 days before
    • Author: PLICEASE
13. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
    • Version: 1.036 on 2026-09-18, with 68 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.035 was released 29 days before
    • Author: TONYC
14. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
    • Version: 0.650 on 2026-09-17, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.649 was released the same day
    • Author: ETHER
15. LWP::ConsoleLogger - LWP tracing and debugging
    • Version: 1.000003 on 2026-09-18, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000002 was released 4 months, 5 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
16. Number::Format - Perl extension for formatting numbers
    • Version: 1.79 on 2026-09-17, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.78 was released 3 days before
    • Author: RJBS
17. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
    • Version: 0.149 on 2026-09-17, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.148 was released 4 days before
    • Author: ETHER
18. Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
    • Version: 4.022 on 2026-09-13, with 35 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 4.021 was released 2 days before
    • Author: RJBS
19. Test::Fatal - incredibly simple helpers for testing code with exceptions
    • Version: 0.019 on 2026-09-13, with 40 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.018 was released 10 months, 6 days before
    • Author: RJBS
20. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000180 on 2026-09-11, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000179 was released 2 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
21. Text::Diff - Perform diffs on files and record sets
    • Version: 1.46 on 2026-09-13, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.45 was released 9 years, 27 days before
    • Author: NEILB

(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