(dlxxix) 16 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: 2.097000 on 2025-12-16, with 810 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.096001 was 2 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20251221.001 on 2025-12-21, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20251214.001 was 7 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
3. Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::Compile - Common tests to check syntax of your modules, using only core modules
   • Version: 2.059 on 2025-12-16, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.058 was 7 years, 11 months, 27 days before
   • Author: ETHER
4. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
   • Version: 13.44 on 2025-12-15, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 13.36 was 3 months, 6 days before
   • Author: EXIFTOOL
5. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
   • Version: 0.630 on 2025-12-14, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.629 was 2 days before
   • Author: ETHER
6. List::Gen - provides functions for generating lists
   • Version: 0.979 on 2025-12-21, with 24 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.978
   • Author: SOMMREY
7. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.29 on 2025-12-17, with 98 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v3.1.28 was 3 months, 2 days before
   • Author: SYOHEX
8. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20251220 on 2025-12-20, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20251120 was 1 month before
   • Author: BINGOS
9. Mouse - Moose minus the antlers
   • Version: v2.6.1 on 2025-12-20, with 63 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v2.6.0 was 1 month, 20 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
10. PGXN::API - Maintain and serve a REST API to search PGXN mirrors
    • Version: v0.21.0 on 2025-12-15, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.20.2 was 1 year, 9 months before
    • Author: DWHEELER
11. Sidef - The Sidef Programming Language
    • Version: 25.12 on 2025-12-21, with 121 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 24.11 was 1 year, 22 days before
    • Author: TRIZEN
12. Text::Markup - Parse text markup into HTML
    • Version: 0.41 on 2025-12-18, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.40 was 3 days before
    • Author: DWHEELER
13. Unicode::UTF8 - Encoding and decoding of UTF-8 encoding form
    • Version: 0.63 on 2025-12-20, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.62 was 8 years, 8 months, 9 days before
    • Author: CHANSEN
14. Zonemaster::Backend - A system for running Zonemaster tests asynchronously through an RPC-API
    • Version: 12.0.0 on 2025-12-19, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 11.5.0 was 5 months, 22 days before
    • Author: ZNMSTR
15. Zonemaster::Engine::Exception::NormalExit - run Zonemaster tests from the command line
    • Version: 8.000001 on 2025-12-19, with 23 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 8.000000 was 5 months, 22 days before
    • Author: ZNMSTR
16. Zonemaster::Engine - A tool to check the quality of a DNS zone
    • Version: 8.001000 on 2025-12-19, with 35 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 8.000000 was 5 months, 22 days before
    • Author: ZNMSTR