(dxciii) 10 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. Clone - recursively copy Perl datatypes
   • Version: 0.50 on 2026-03-28, with 33 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.49 was released 3 days before
   • Author: ATOOMIC
2. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260327.002 on 2026-03-27, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260318.001 was released 9 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
3. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
   • Version: 1.95 on 2026-03-24, with 33 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.91_5 was released 8 days before
   • Author: ZARQUON
4. IPC::Run - system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys (Unix, Win32)
   • Version: 20260322.0 on 2026-03-22, with 39 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20250809.0 was released 7 months, 12 days before
   • Author: TODDR
5. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
   • Version: 4.29 on 2026-03-23, with 98 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.28 was released 5 months, 23 days before
   • Author: SRI
6. Object::Pad - a simple syntax for lexical field-based objects
   • Version: 0.825 on 2026-03-25, with 48 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.824 was released 1 day before
   • Author: PEVANS
7. PDL::Stats - a collection of statistics modules in Perl Data Language, with a quick-start guide for non-PDL people.
   • Version: 0.856 on 2026-03-22, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.855 was released 1 year, 16 days before
   • Author: ETJ
8. SPVM - The SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.990152 on 2026-03-26, with 36 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.990151 was released the same day
   • Author: KIMOTO
9. Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
   • Version: 1.781 on 2026-03-25, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.780 was released 1 month, 20 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
10. YAML::Syck - Fast, lightweight YAML loader and dumper
    • Version: 1.42 on 2026-03-27, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.41 was released 4 days before
    • Author: TODDR

(dcxxvii) metacpan weekly report - Mail::Make

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

Week's winner: Mail::Make (+2)

Build date: 2026/03/28 20:47:31 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• DB::Handy - Pure-Perl flat-file relational database with DBI-like interface
• GD::Thumbnail - Thumbnail maker for GD
• HTTP::Handy - A tiny HTTP/1.0 server for Perl 5.5.3+
• Lingua::IND::Nums2Words - This module is deprecated. Please use Lingua::IND::Num2Word instead.
• Lingua::ITA::Word2Num - Word to number conversion in Italian
• Lingua::KOR::Word2Num - Word to number conversion in Korean
• LTSV::LINQ - LINQ-style query interface for LTSV files
• MIDI::RtController::Filter::Tonal - Tonal RtController filters
• Modern::Perl::Prelude - Project prelude for modern Perl style on Perl 5.26+
• Net::Async::SOCKS - basic SOCKS5 connection support for IO::Async
• Restish::Client - A RESTish client...in perl!

Increasing its reputation:

• App::Greple (+1=5)
• Authen::SASL (+1=11)
• CGI (+1=48)
• CHI (+1=64)
• Data::Printer (+1=154)
• DateTime::Format::ISO8601 (+1=11)
• DBD::Pg (+1=104)
• DBI (+1=283)
• FFI::Platypus (+1=70)
• Future (+1=63)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=52)
• Imager::QRCode (+1=3)
• IO::Async (+1=81)
• IO::Async::SSL (+1=5)
• IO::Compress (+1=20)
• IO::K8s (+1=5)
• Lingua::JA::Moji (+1=3)
• List::UtilsBy (+1=41)
• Mail::Make (+2=2)
• mb::JSON (+1=3)
• Mojo::Pg (+1=74)
• Mojo::UserAgent::Cached (+1=4)
• Net::Async::HTTP (+1=8)
• Object::Pad (+1=48)
• PDF::API2 (+1=33)
• Regexp::Assemble (+1=36)
• Regexp::Debugger (+1=60)
• Syntax::Keyword::Match (+1=15)
• Syntax::Keyword::Try (+1=48)
• Test2::Harness (+1=21)
• XML::Parser (+1=11)

(dxcii) 18 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::cpanminus - get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
   • Version: 1.7049 on 2026-03-17, with 286 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.7048 was 1 year, 4 months, 18 days before
   • Author: MIYAGAWA
2. App::HTTPThis - Export the current directory over HTTP
   • Version: v0.11.1 on 2026-03-16, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v0.11.0 was 2 days before
   • Author: DAVECROSS
3. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260318.001 on 2026-03-18, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260315.002 was 3 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
4. Crypt::Passphrase - A module for managing passwords in a cryptographically agile manner
   • Version: 0.022 on 2026-03-21, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.021 was 1 year, 1 month, 17 days before
   • Author: LEONT
5. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
   • Version: 3.20.0 on 2026-03-19, with 103 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.19.0 was 4 days before
   • Author: TURNSTEP
6. Git::CPAN::Patch - Patch CPAN modules using Git
   • Version: 2.5.2 on 2026-03-18, with 45 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.5.1
   • Author: YANICK
7. JSON - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
   • Version: 4.11 on 2026-03-22, with 109 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.10 was 3 years, 5 months, 13 days before
   • Author: ISHIGAKI
8. JSON::PP - JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
   • Version: 4.18 on 2026-03-20, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.17_01 was 2 years, 7 months, 21 days before
   • Author: ISHIGAKI
9. Log::Any - Bringing loggers and listeners together
   • Version: 1.719 on 2026-03-16, with 69 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.718 was 9 months, 14 days before
   • Author: PREACTION
10. MetaCPAN::API - (DEPRECATED) A comprehensive, DWIM-featured API to MetaCPAN
    • Version: 0.52 on 2026-03-16, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.51 was 8 years, 9 months, 9 days before
    • Author: HAARG
11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20260320 on 2026-03-20, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20260308 was 11 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
12. Net::SSLeay - Perl bindings for OpenSSL and LibreSSL
    • Version: 1.96 on 2026-03-21, with 27 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.95_03 
    • Author: CHRISN
13. OpenGL - Perl bindings to the OpenGL API, GLU, and GLUT/FreeGLUT
    • Version: 0.7009 on 2026-03-19, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.7008
    • Author: ETJ
14. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990150 on 2026-03-19, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990149
    • Author: KIMOTO
15. Syntax::Construct - Explicitly state which non-feature constructs are used in the code.
    • Version: 1.045 on 2026-03-19, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.044 was 10 days before
    • Author: CHOROBA
16. TimeDate - Date and time formatting subroutines
    • Version: 2.35 on 2026-03-21, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.34_03 was 1 day before
    • Author: ATOOMIC
17. Unicode::UTF8 - Encoding and decoding of UTF-8 encoding form
    • Version: 0.70 on 2026-03-19, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.69
    • Author: CHANSEN
18. YAML::Syck - Fast, lightweight YAML loader and dumper
    • Version: 1.39 on 2026-03-21, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.38
    • Author: TODDR

(dxci) 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::Cmd - write command line apps with less suffering
   • Version: 0.340 on 2026-03-13, with 50 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.339 was 21 days before
   • Author: RJBS
2. App::HTTPThis - Export the current directory over HTTP
   • Version: v0.11.0 on 2026-03-13, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.010 was 3 months, 9 days before
   • Author: DAVECROSS
3. App::zipdetails - Display details about the internal structure of Zip files
   • Version: 4.005 on 2026-03-08, with 65 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.004 was 1 year, 10 months, 8 days before
   • Author: PMQS
4. CPAN::Audit - Audit CPAN distributions for known vulnerabilities
   • Version: 20260308.002 on 2026-03-08, with 21 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20250829.001 was 6 months, 10 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
5. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260311.002 on 2026-03-11, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260308.006 was 2 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
6. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 2.1.0 on 2026-03-12, with 139 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.0.1 was 4 months, 20 days before
   • Author: CROMEDOME
7. Data::Alias - Comprehensive set of aliasing operations
   • Version: 1.30 on 2026-03-11, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.29 was 1 month, 8 days before
   • Author: XMATH
8. DBD::Pg - DBI PostgreSQL interface
   • Version: 3.19.0 on 2026-03-14, with 103 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.18.0 was 2 years, 3 months, 7 days before
   • Author: TURNSTEP
9. IO::Compress - IO Interface to compressed data files/buffers
   • Version: 2.219 on 2026-03-09, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.218 was before
   • Author: PMQS
10. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
    • Version: 0.633 on 2026-03-13, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.632 was 2 months, 7 days before
    • Author: ETHER
11. Math::Prime::Util - Utilities related to prime numbers, including fast sieves and factoring
    • Version: 0.74 on 2026-03-13, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.74 was 1 day before
    • Author: DANAJ
12. MetaCPAN::Client - A comprehensive, DWIM-featured client to the MetaCPAN API
    • Version: 2.040000 on 2026-03-09, with 29 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.039000 was 8 days before
    • Author: MICKEY
13. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20260308 on 2026-03-08, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20260220 was 15 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
14. OpenGL - Perl bindings to the OpenGL API, GLU, and GLUT/FreeGLUT
    • Version: 0.7007 on 2026-03-13, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.7006 was 10 months, 29 days before
    • Author: ETJ
15. less - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.042001 on 2026-03-08, with 2248 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.042001 was 14 days before
    • Author: SHAY
16. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990146 on 2026-03-14, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990145 was before
    • Author: KIMOTO
17. Syntax::Construct - Explicitly state which non-feature constructs are used in the code.
    • Version: 1.044 on 2026-03-09, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.043 was 8 months, 5 days before
    • Author: CHOROBA
18. Test::Routine - composable units of assertion
    • Version: 0.032 on 2026-03-12, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.031 was 2 years, 11 months before
    • Author: RJBS
19. WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - automate the Chrome browser
    • Version: 0.76 on 2026-03-13, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.75 was 4 months, 12 days before
    • Author: CORION
20. X11::korgwm - a tiling window manager for X11
    • Version: 6.1 on 2026-03-08, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.0 was before
    • Author: ZHMYLOVE

(dcxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Langertha

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 61

Week's winner: Langertha (+3)

Build date: 2026/03/14 22:28:35 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Alien::libmaxminddb - Find or install libmaxminddb
• Container::Builder - Build Container archives.
• Data::HashMap - Fast type-specialized hash maps implemented in C
• Data::Path::XS - Fast path-based access to nested data structures
• EV::Future - Minimalist and high-performance async control flow for EV
• Graph::Easy::As_svg - Output a Graph::Easy as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• HTTP::Handy - A tiny HTTP/1.0 server for Perl 5.5.3+
• LaTeX::Replicase - Perl extension implementing a minimalistic engine for filling real TeX-LaTeX files that act as templates.
• Linux::Event - Front door for the Linux::Event reactor and proactor ecosystem
• Linux::Event::Listen - Listening sockets for Linux::Event
• LTSV::LINQ - LINQ-style query interface for LTSV files
• Mail::Make - Strict, Fluent MIME Email Builder
• Router::Ragel - Router module using Ragel finite state machine
• Search::Tokenizer - Decompose a string into tokens (words)
• Term::ReadLine::Repl - A batteries included interactive Term::ReadLine REPL module
• Test::Mockingbird - Advanced mocking library for Perl with support for dependency injection and spies
• Unicode::Towctrans -
• XML::PugiXML - Perl binding for pugixml C++ XML parser

Increasing its reputation:

• Affix (+1=5)
• App::cpm (+1=78)
• App::perlbrew (+1=181)
• Class::XSConstructor (+1=9)
• Compress::Zstd (+1=7)
• CtrlO::PDF (+1=4)
• Data::MessagePack (+1=18)
• Data::Random (+1=4)
• DateTime::Format::ISO8601 (+1=10)
• DBD::Oracle (+1=33)
• DBD::Pg (+1=103)
• DBIx::DataModel (+1=13)
• Encode::Simple (+1=6)
• EV (+1=50)
• Eval::Closure (+1=11)
• File::HomeDir (+1=36)
• File::Map (+1=24)
• Graph::Easy (+1=11)
• Iterator::Simple (+1=8)
• Langertha (+3=2)
• Locale::Unicode::Data (+1=2)
• LV (+2=4)
• Math::GMPz (+1=4)
• MetaCPAN::Client (+1=27)
• Moose (+1=335)
• MooX::Cmd (+1=9)
• Net::Server (+1=35)
• OpenGL (+1=15)
• PDL (+1=61)
• Perl::Critic (+1=135)
• Pinto (+1=66)
• PLS (+1=18)
• Readonly (+1=24)
• Reply (+1=63)
• Sentinel (+1=9)
• Server::Starter (+1=23)
• Test2::Plugin::SubtestFilter (+1=4)
• Test::LWP::UserAgent (+1=15)
• Text::Trim (+1=7)
• Try::Tiny (+1=181)

(dxc) 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. Clone - recursively copy Perl datatypes
   • Version: 0.48 on 2026-03-02, with 33 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.48_07 was 6 days before
   • Author: ATOOMIC
2. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260301.001 on 2026-03-01, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260228.001
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
3. Date::Manip - Date manipulation routines
   • Version: 6.99 on 2026-03-02, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.98 was 9 months before
   • Author: SBECK
4. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.67 on 2026-03-05, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.66 was 2 months, 25 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
5. Devel::Cover - Code coverage metrics for Perl
   • Version: 1.52 on 2026-03-07, with 104 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.51 was 7 months, 11 days before
   • Author: PJCJ
6. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
   • Version: 7.78 on 2026-03-03, with 64 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 7.77_03 was 1 day before
   • Author: BINGOS
7. Mail::DMARC - Perl implementation of DMARC
   • Version: 1.20260306 on 2026-03-06, with 37 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.20260301 was 5 days before
   • Author: MSIMERSON
8. Module::Build::Tiny - A tiny replacement for Module::Build
   • Version: 0.053 on 2026-03-03, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.052 was 9 months, 22 days before
   • Author: LEONT
9. Number::Phone - base class for Number::Phone::* modules
   • Version: 4.0010 on 2026-03-06, with 24 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.0009 was 2 months, 27 days before
   • Author: DCANTRELL
10. PDL - Perl Data Language
    • Version: 2.103 on 2026-03-03, with 101 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.102
    • Author: ETJ
11. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990141 on 2026-03-06, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990140
    • Author: KIMOTO
12. SVG - Perl extension for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents.
    • Version: 2.89 on 2026-03-05, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.88 was 9 days before
    • Author: MANWAR
13. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v12.1.0 on 2026-03-03, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v12.0.0 was 1 month, 18 days before
    • Author: DANBERR
14. Unicode::UTF8 - Encoding and decoding of UTF-8 encoding form
    • Version: 0.68 on 2026-03-02, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.67
    • Author: CHANSEN
15. X11::korgwm - a tiling window manager for X11
    • Version: 6.0 on 2026-03-07, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.0 was 1 year, 1 month, 15 days before
    • Author: ZHMYLOVE
16. Zonemaster::Engine - A tool to check the quality of a DNS zone
    • Version: 8.001001 on 2026-03-04, with 35 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 8.001000 was 2 months, 16 days before
    • Author: ZNMSTR