(dlxiii) 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::Music::ChordPro - A lyrics and chords formatting program
   • Version: v6.080.1 on 2025-08-28, with 397 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v6.080.0 was 9 days before
   • Author: JV
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.088001 on 2025-08-26, with 749 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.088000 was before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20250829.001 on 2025-08-29, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20250115.001 was 7 months, 13 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
4. IO::Prompter - Prompt for input, read it, clean it, return it.
   • Version: 0.005003 on 2025-08-29, with 27 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.005002 was 6 months, 21 days before
   • Author: DCONWAY
5. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
   • Version: 1.53 on 2025-08-29, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.52_03 was 3 days before
   • Author: NLNETLABS
6. Net::HTTP - Low-level HTTP connection (client)
   • Version: 6.24 on 2025-08-29, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.23 was 2 years, 2 months, 12 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
7. Parallel::ForkManager - A simple parallel processing fork manager
   • Version: 2.04 on 2025-08-30, with 101 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.03 was 1 year, 5 days before
   • Author: YANICK
8. PDF::API2 - Create, modify, and examine PDF files
   • Version: 2.048 on 2025-08-29, with 32 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.047 was 1 year, 3 months, 10 days before
   • Author: SSIMMS
9. SPVM - The SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.990084 on 2025-08-26, with 36 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.990083 was 1 day before
   • Author: KIMOTO
10. Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects
    • Version: 1.3701 on 2025-08-26, with 63 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.37 was 9 days before
    • Author: ESAYM
11. WebService::Fastly - an interface to most facets of the [Fastly API](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/).
    • Version: 12.00 on 2025-08-29, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 11.01 was 1 month, 21 days before
    • Author: FASTLY

(dcxiv) metacpan weekly report - Time::Piece & Pod::Weaver::Section::SourceGitHub

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 56

Week's winners (+2): Time::Piece & Pod::Weaver::Section::SourceGitHub 

Build date: 2025/08/30 17:36:06 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Homer - Simple prototype-based object system

Increasing its reputation:

• App::Codit (+1=2)
• App::FatPacker (+1=45)
• Attribute::Handlers (+1=11)
• autodie (+1=64)
• AWS::Lambda (+1=9)
• builtins (+1=3)
• Business::ISBN::Data (+1=3)
• Class::Delegation (+1=2)
• Clone (+1=33)
• constant::more (+1=2)
• CPAN::Audit (+1=15)
• CPANSA::DB (+1=2)
• Data::Dx (+1=7)
• Debug::Comments (+1=2)
• Devel::Cover (+1=104)
• Devel::NYTProf (+1=194)
• Dir::Self (+1=12)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::MixedScripts (+1=2)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::UsefulReadme (+1=2)
• Git (+1=4)
• Git::PurePerl (+1=2)
• HTML5::DOM (+1=15)
• IO::FD (+1=4)
• IPC::Run (+1=39)
• Iterator (+1=2)
• JSON::Lines (+1=2)
• Minilla (+1=64)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::CHI (+1=8)
• Multi::Dispatch (+1=3)
• Net::CIDR (+1=5)
• Net::DNS (+1=29)
• Object::Container (+1=3)
• Object::Iterate (+1=5)
• Object::Realize::Later (+1=2)
• Path::Tiny (+1=192)
• Paws (+1=58)
• Perl::Critic (+1=133)
• Pod::Weaver::Section::SourceGitHub (+2=2)
• PPR (+1=24)
• Regexp::Grammars (+1=39)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=182)
• Sereal (+1=65)
• Storable (+1=56)
• Sub::Quote (+1=10)
• Switch::Right (+1=4)
• Test::Class (+1=23)
• Test::Script (+1=11)
• Text::Balanced (+1=17)
• Text::CSV_XS (+1=104)
• Time::Moment (+1=75)
• Time::ParseDate (+1=4)
• Time::Piece (+2=63)
• Tk::Pod (+1=6)

(dlxii) 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::Music::ChordPro - A lyrics and chords formatting program
   • Version: v6.080.0 on 2025-08-19, with 392 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v6.070.7 was 13 days before
   • Author: JV
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.087001 on 2025-08-20, with 748 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.087000 was 1 month, 6 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. Function::Parameters - define functions and methods with parameter lists ("subroutine signatures")
   • Version: 2.002006 on 2025-08-16, with 61 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.002005 was 6 months, 28 days before
   • Author: MAUKE
4. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
   • Version: 0.617 on 2025-08-16, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.616 was 20 days before
   • Author: ETHER
5. Minion - Job queue
   • Version: 11.0 on 2025-08-22, with 232 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 10.31 was 11 months, 1 day before
   • Author: SRI
6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20250820 on 2025-08-20, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20250803 was 17 days before
   • Author: BINGOS
7. OpenTelemetry - A Perl implementation of the OpenTelemetry standard
   • Version: 0.031 on 2025-08-22, with 27 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.030 was 3 months, 14 days before
   • Author: JJATRIA
8. PLS - Perl Language Server
   • Version: 0.906 on 2025-08-21, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.905 was 2 years, 6 months, 30 days before
   • Author: MREISNER
9. SPVM - The SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.990082 on 2025-08-22, with 36 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.990081 was 7 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO
10. Struct::Dumb - make simple lightweight record-like structures
    • Version: 0.15 on 2025-08-19, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.14 was 2 years, 6 months, 8 days before
    • Author: PEVANS
11. Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects
    • Version: 1.37 on 2025-08-16, with 61 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.36 was 4 months, 9 days before
    • Author: ESAYM

(dcxiii) metacpan weekly report - Time::Left & Path::Tiny

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 50

Week's winners (+2): Time::Left & Path::Tiny

Build date: 2025/08/23 22:00:52 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Debug::Comments - Source filter which turns comments into log messages
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::CVE - add tests for known CVEs
• LaTeX::Replicase - Perl extension implementing a minimalistic engine for filling real TeX-LaTeX files that act as templates.
• Month::Simple - Simple month-based date arithmetics
• OS390::Stdio - recipes and examples for the use of OS390::Stdio
• Parse::LocalDistribution - parses local .pm files as PAUSE does
• Template::EmbeddedPerl - Embedded Perl Template Engine

Increasing its reputation:

• AI::FANN (+1=4)
• App::UpdateCPANfile (+1=5)
• Beekeeper (+1=2)
• Business::ISBN::Data (+1=3)
• CGI::Session (+1=8)
• Class::XSAccessor (+1=28)
• Crypt::URandom::Token (+1=2)
• Devel::hdb (+1=50)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=186)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckExtraTests (+1=9)
• Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Starter (+1=7)
• FFI::Platypus (+1=69)
• File::Map (+1=24)
• Gherkin (+1=2)
• HTML::FormHandler (+1=44)
• HTML::Parser (+1=51)
• IO::Async (+1=79)
• local::lib (+1=95)
• Log::Any (+1=66)
• Mojo::SQLite (+1=28)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2::Server (+1=9)
• Moo (+1=306)
• MooseX::Types::XML::LibXML (+1=2)
• Net::EPP::Registry::Nominet (+1=2)
• Net::OAuth2::AuthorizationServer (+1=7)
• Object::InsideOut (+1=7)
• Path::Tiny (+2=192)
• Plack::Middleware::Statsd (+1=3)
• Pod::Coverage (+1=14)
• Pod::Weaver (+1=35)
• Pod::Weaver::Section::Support (+1=4)
• Rex (+1=87)
• RTx::Calendar (+1=3)
• Software::Security::Policy (+1=5)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=78)
• Struct::Dumb (+1=16)
• Template::Toolkit (+1=148)
• Test::Output (+1=15)
• Text::Template (+1=27)
• Time::Left (+2=2)
• Valiant (+1=5)

(dlxi) 6 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. IPC::Run - system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys (Unix, Win32)
   • Version: 20250809.0 on 2025-08-10, with 38 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20250715.0_01 was 25 days before
   • Author: NJM
2. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.27 on 2025-08-12, with 97 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v3.1.26 was 3 months, 7 days before
   • Author: SYOHEX
3. Net::Curl - Perl interface for libcurl
   • Version: 0.58 on 2025-08-14, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.58_3 was before
   • Author: SYP
4. Prima - a Perl graphic toolkit
   • Version: 1.77 on 2025-08-12, with 112 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.76_2 was 27 days before
   • Author: KARASIK
5. SPVM - The SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.990081 on 2025-08-14, with 36 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.990080 was 8 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO
6. Workflow - Simple, flexible system to implement workflows
   • Version: 2.06 on 2025-08-12, with 33 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.05 was 6 months, 11 days before
   • Author: JONASBN

(dcxii) metacpan weekly report

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

This week there isn't any remarkable distribution

Build date: 2025/08/15 16:19:37 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Benchmark::MCE - Perl multi-core benchmarking framework
• Linux::PipeMagic - Perl extension to use the zero copy IO syscalls
• Log::Any::Adapter::MacOS::OSLog - log to macOS' unified logging system
• Logic - logical programming and multimethod dispatch
• Mixin::Linewise - write your linewise code for handles; this does the rest
• Respite - Representational State (Perl Iscool) Transfer Engine
• SPVM::Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
• Sub::Parameters - enhanced parmeter handling
• Tie::CArray - Typed, space-efficient, external C Arrays
• Tie::Counter - Have a counter in a scalar.
• Tie::Math - Hashes which represent mathematical functions.
• Tie::Timely - Time out scalar values
• Tie::Toggle - False and true, alternately, ad infinitum.
• Wiki::JSON - Parse wiki-like articles to a data-structure transformable to JSON.

Increasing its reputation:

• Affix (+1=3)
• Authen::OATH (+1=5)
• Class::Enum (+1=4)
• Devel::Caller (+1=6)
• Devel::LexAlias (+1=5)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CheckExtraTests (+1=8)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MojibakeTests (+1=2)
• Exception::Class (+1=28)
• Exporter::Tiny (+1=24)
• ExtUtils::Manifest (+1=5)
• Keyword::Simple (+1=17)
• LibUI (+1=2)
• Log::Any (+1=65)
• Marpa::R2 (+1=49)
• Minilla (+1=64)
• Module::CPANfile (+1=61)
• PadWalker (+1=28)
• Pegex (+1=23)
• PerlPowerTools (+1=46)
• RT::Extension::BooleanCustomField (+1=3)
• Test::Mojibake (+1=3)
• Text::Template (+1=26)
• Throwable (+1=38)
• Tie::Cycle (+1=2)
• Tie::Hash::DBD (+1=6)
• Tie::Reduce (+1=2)
• Tie::Subset (+1=2)
• Try::Tiny (+1=180)
• XML::Twig (+1=64)

(dlx) 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. App::Music::ChordPro - A lyrics and chords formatting program
   • Version: v6.070.7 on 2025-08-05, with 389 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.070 was 7 months, 12 days before
   • Author: JV
2. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20250807.001 on 2025-08-07, with 23 votes
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
3. DBD::mysql - A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
   • Version: 5.013 on 2025-08-03, with 64 votes
   • Author: DVEEDEN
4. Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Client - Google Ads API Client Library for Perl
   • Version: v28.0.0 on 2025-08-06, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v27.0.1 was 29 days before
   • Author: CHEVALIER
5. Mac::PropertyList - work with Mac plists at a low level
   • Version: 1.605 on 2025-08-08, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.604 was 15 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
6. Mail::DMARC - Perl implementation of DMARC
   • Version: 1.20250805 on 2025-08-05, with 35 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.20250610 was 1 month, 25 days before
   • Author: MSIMERSON
7. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20250803 on 2025-08-03, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20250720 was 13 days before
   • Author: BINGOS
8. perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter
   • Version: 5.040003 on 2025-08-03, with 2150 votes
   • Author: SHAY
9. Specio - Type constraints and coercions for Perl
   • Version: 0.52 on 2025-08-09, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.51 was 1 month, 19 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
10. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990080 on 2025-08-06, with 36 votes
    • Author: KIMOTO
11. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v11.6.0 on 2025-08-04, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v11.2.0 was 2 months before
    • Author: DANBERR
12. Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
    • Version: 2.07 on 2025-08-03, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.06 was 3 years, 1 month, 28 days before
    • Author: SHAY

(dcxi) metacpan weekly report - MCP

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 51

Week's winner: MCP (+2)

Build date: 2025/08/09 15:36:12 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::rdapper - a simple console-based RDAP client.
• Bio::DB::Big - Perl interface to bigWigLib for accessing the kent big formats
• Crypt::URandom::Token - Generate secure strings for passwords, secrets and similar
• DateTime::Event::Cron::Quartz - OpensSymphony Quartz cron expression processor
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::UsefulReadme - generate a README file with the useful bits
• Object::Adhoc - make objects without the hassle of defining a class first
• Pod::Weaver::Plugin::AppendPrepend - Merge append:FOO and prepend:FOO sections in POD

Increasing its reputation:

• Authen::SASL (+1=10)
• B::Hooks::EndOfScope (+1=11)
• Bio::DB::HTS (+1=3)
• Bio::ToolBox (+1=5)
• BioPerl (+1=35)
• C::Tokenize (+1=2)
• Catalyst::Manual (+1=51)
• Class::Singleton (+1=6)
• CPAN::Meta::YAML (+1=5)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+1=46)
• Dancer2 (+1=138)
• Dancer2::Plugin::FormValidator (+1=5)
• Data::Alias (+1=19)
• Data::Fake (+1=17)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::CPAN::Changes (+1=8)
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::UnusedVars (+1=6)
• e (+1=6)
• Getopt::Long (+1=126)
• HTML::Formatter (+1=4)
• libapreq2 (+1=4)
• Locale::Codes (+1=8)
• MCP (+2=2)
• Minion::Notifier (+1=9)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OAuth2 (+1=19)
• MooX::Options (+1=25)
• Package::Stash (+1=29)
• Parallel::ForkManager (+1=101)
• perl (+1=436)
• PLS (+1=17)
• Pod::Coverage (+1=13)
• Pod::Spell (+1=9)
• Pod::Weaver::Section::Contributors (+1=7)
• PPI (+1=62)
• Quote::Code (+1=9)
• Search::Elasticsearch (+1=49)
• Sub::Exporter (+1=38)
• Test::CheckManifest (+1=7)
• Test::CVE (+1=3)
• Test::MockObject (+1=26)
• Test::Modern (+1=10)
• Test::Simple (+1=196)
• Test::Spelling (+1=13)
• Variable::Magic (+1=26)

(dlix) 8 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::rdapper - a simple console-based RDAP client.
   • Version: 1.18 on 2025-07-29, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.17 was 7 days before
   • Author: GBROWN
2. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20250731.002 on 2025-07-31, with 23 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20250730.001 was 1 day before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
3. Crypt::CBC - Encrypt Data with Cipher Block Chaining Mode
   • Version: 3.07 on 2025-07-27, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.06 was before
   • Author: TIMLEGGE
4. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
   • Version: 0.616 on 2025-07-26, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.615 was 14 days before
   • Author: ETHER
5. Net::DNS - Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
   • Version: 1.52 on 2025-07-29, with 28 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.51_04 was 1 day before
   • Author: NLNETLABS
6. PAR - Perl Archive Toolkit
   • Version: 1.021 on 2025-07-31, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.020 was 1 year, 4 months, 27 days before
   • Author: RSCHUPP
7. Proc::ProcessTable - Perl extension to access the unix process table
   • Version: 0.637 on 2025-07-28, with 21 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.636 was 2 years, 1 month, 7 days before
   • Author: JWB
8. Scalar::List::Utils - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
   • Version: 1.70 on 2025-07-30, with 181 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.69 was 3 months, 28 days before
   • Author: PEVANS