4 abr 2026

(dxciv) 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::Staticperl - perl, libc, 100 modules, all in one standalone 500kb file
    • Version: 1.5 on 2026-04-04, with 21 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.46 was released 4 years, 1 month, 16 days before
    • Author: MLEHMANN
  2. Catalyst::Action::REST - Automated REST Method Dispatching
    • Version: 1.22 on 2026-03-30, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.21 was released 8 years, 3 months, 25 days before
    • Author: ETHER
  3. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
    • Version: 20260329.001 on 2026-03-29, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20260327.002 was released 1 day before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
  4. Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler
    • Version: 6.15 on 2026-03-31, with 199 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.14 was released 2 years, 5 months, 12 days before
    • Author: JKEENAN
  5. Devel::Size - Perl extension for finding the memory usage of Perl variables
    • Version: 0.87 on 2026-03-31, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.86_50 was released 1 month, 19 days before
    • Author: NWCLARK
  6. Dios - Declarative Inside-Out Syntax
    • Version: 0.002014 on 2026-04-01, with 24 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.002013 was released 1 year, 7 months, 14 days before
    • Author: DCONWAY
  7. Inline::Module - Support for Inline-based CPAN Extension Modules
    • Version: 0.35 on 2026-03-30, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.34 was released 11 years, 1 month, 12 days before
    • Author: INGY
  8. IPC::Run - system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys (Unix, Win32)
    • Version: 20260402.0 on 2026-04-02, with 39 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20260401.0 was released the same day
    • Author: TODDR
  9. LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl
    • Version: 6.82 on 2026-03-29, with 212 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.81 was released 5 months, 6 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  10. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20260330 on 2026-03-29, with 45 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20260320 was released 8 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
  11. Module::Metadata - Gather package and POD information from perl module files
    • Version: 1.000039 on 2026-04-03, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000038 was released 2 years, 11 months, 5 days before
    • Author: ETHER
  12. Mouse - Moose minus the antlers
    • Version: v2.6.2 on 2026-04-04, with 63 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v2.6.1 was released 3 months, 14 days before
    • Author: SYOHEX
  13. perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.042002 on 2026-03-29, with 2251 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.042001 was released 21 days before
    • Author: SHAY
  14. Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod
    • Version: 3.48 on 2026-04-04, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.47 was released 10 months, 19 days before
    • Author: KHW
  15. Sidef - The Sidef Programming Language - A modern, high-level programming language
    • Version: 26.04 on 2026-04-01, with 122 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 26.01 was released 2 months, 18 days before
    • Author: TRIZEN
  16. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990153 on 2026-03-28, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990152 was released 2 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
  17. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v12.2.0 on 2026-04-01, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v12.1.0 was released 29 days before
    • Author: DANBERR
  18. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000164 on 2026-04-01, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000164 was released the same day
    • Author: EXODIST
  19. WebService::Fastly - an interface to most facets of the [Fastly API](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/).
    • Version: 14.01 on 2026-03-31, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 14.00 was released 1 month, 14 days before
    • Author: FASTLY
  20. YAML::Syck - Fast, lightweight YAML loader and dumper
    • Version: 1.44 on 2026-04-02, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.43 was released 1 day before
    • Author: TODDR

(dcxxviii) metacpan weekly report - App::FatPacker

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 65

Week's winner: App::FatPacker (+2)

Build date: 2026/04/04 19:54:08 GMT


Clicked for first time:

  • App::Chit - chat with AI from the command line
  • App::prepare4release - prepare a Perl distribution for release (skeleton)
  • Context::Preserve - Run code after a subroutine call, preserving the context the subroutine would have seen if it were the last statement in the caller
  • Data::HashMap::Shared - Type-specialized shared-memory hash maps for multiprocess access
  • DB::Handy - Pure-Perl flat-file relational database with DBI-like interface
  • EV::Websockets - WebSocket client/server using libwebsockets and EV
  • Rex::LibSSH - Rex connection backend using Net::LibSSH (no SFTP required)
  • Task::Kensho::All - Install all of Task::Kensho
  • WWW::Tracking - universal website visitors tracking

Increasing its reputation: