(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