(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