(dlxxxiv) 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::Greple - extensible grep with lexical expression and region handling
   • Version: 10.03 on 2026-01-19, with 56 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 10.02 was 10 days before
   • Author: UTASHIRO
2. Beam::Wire - Lightweight Dependency Injection Container
   • Version: 1.028 on 2026-01-21, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.027 was 1 month, 15 days before
   • Author: PREACTION
3. CPAN::Meta - the distribution metadata for a CPAN dist
   • Version: 2.150011 on 2026-01-22, with 39 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.150010 was 9 years, 5 months, 4 days before
   • Author: RJBS
4. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260120.004 on 2026-01-20, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260120.002
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
5. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
   • Version: 1.24 on 2026-01-18, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.23_03 was 5 days before
   • Author: SCHUBIGER
6. EV - perl interface to libev, a high performance full-featured event loop
   • Version: 4.37 on 2026-01-22, with 50 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.36 was 4 months, 2 days before
   • Author: MLEHMANN
7. Git::Repository - Perl interface to Git repositories
   • Version: 1.326 on 2026-01-18, with 27 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.325 was 4 years, 7 months, 17 days before
   • Author: BOOK
8. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
   • Version: 0.805 on 2026-01-19, with 80 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.804 was 8 months, 26 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
9. Mac::PropertyList - work with Mac plists at a low level
   • Version: 1.606 on 2026-01-20, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.605 was 5 months, 11 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
10. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20260119 on 2026-01-19, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20251220 was 29 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
11. Net::Server - Extensible Perl internet server
    • Version: 2.015 on 2026-01-22, with 33 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.014 was 2 years, 10 months, 7 days before
    • Author: BBB
12. Net::SSH::Perl - Perl client Interface to SSH
    • Version: 2.144 on 2026-01-23, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.144 was 8 days before
    • Author: BDFOY
13. Release::Checklist - A QA checklist for CPAN releases
    • Version: 0.19 on 2026-01-25, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.18 was 1 month, 15 days before
    • Author: HMBRAND
14. Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
    • Version: 0.95 on 2026-01-25, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.94 was 1 month, 15 days before
    • Author: HMBRAND
15. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990117 on 2026-01-24, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990116
    • Author: KIMOTO
16. utf8::all - turn on Unicode - all of it
    • Version: 0.026 on 2026-01-18, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.025 was 1 day before
    • Author: HAYOBAAN