(cdlxix) 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. Catmandu - a data toolkit
   • Version: 1.2021 on 2023-11-06, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.2020 was 8 months, 26 days before
   • Author: HOCHSTEN
2. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
   • Version: 1.65 on 2023-11-06, with 211 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.63 was 15 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
3. DBM::Deep - A pure perl multi-level hash/array DBM that supports transactions
   • Version: 2.0018 on 2023-11-08, with 28 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.0017 was 2 months, 10 days before
   • Author: DCANTRELL
4. Encode - character encodings in Perl
   • Version: 3.20 on 2023-11-10, with 59 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.19 was 1 year, 3 months, 6 days before
   • Author: DANKOGAI
5. Getopt::Long - Module to handle parsing command line options
   • Version: 2.57 on 2023-11-11, with 119 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.54 was 11 months, 24 days before
   • Author: JV
6. IO::Socket::SSL - Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
   • Version: 2.084 on 2023-11-06, with 47 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.083 was 5 months, 19 days before
   • Author: SULLR
7. Minion - Job queue
   • Version: 10.26 on 2023-11-10, with 102 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 10.25 was 1 year, 4 months, 16 days before
   • Author: SRI
8. Module::ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies
   • Version: 1.35 on 2023-11-05, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.34 was 1 month, 11 days before
   • Author: RSCHUPP
9. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
   • Version: 0.88 on 2023-11-07, with 30 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.87 was 8 months, 13 days before
   • Author: HMBRAND
10. SPVM - SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.989060 on 2023-11-10, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.989058 was 10 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
11. YAML::PP - YAML 1.2 Processor
    • Version: v0.37.0 on 2023-11-09, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.036 was 5 months, 30 days before
    • Author: TINITA