(dcviii) 13 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. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260705.001 on 2026-07-05, with 26 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260621.001 was released 13 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
2. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.69 on 2026-07-08, with 22 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.68 was released 2 months, 15 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
3. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
   • Version: 1.650 on 2026-07-07, with 283 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.649 was released 15 days before
   • Author: HMBRAND
4. HTTP::Date - HTTP::Date - date conversion routines
   • Version: 6.08 on 2026-07-09, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.07 was released 13 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
5. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.033 on 2026-07-07, with 68 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.032 was released 5 days before
   • Author: TONYC
6. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.47 on 2026-07-05, with 513 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 9.46 was released 1 month before
   • Author: SRI
7. Perl::Dist::APPerl - Actually Portable Perl
   • Version: v0.7.0 on 2026-07-09, with 41 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v0.6.1 was released 1 year, 10 months, 11 days before
   • Author: GAHAYES
8. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
   • Version: 5.008 on 2026-07-10, with 65 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.007 was released 1 day before
   • Author: YVES
9. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
   • Version: 5.008 on 2026-07-10, with 26 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.007 was released 1 day before
   • Author: YVES
10. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.008 on 2026-07-10, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.007 was released 1 day before
    • Author: YVES
11. String::Util - String processing utility functions
    • Version: 1.36 on 2026-07-06, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.35 was released 1 year, 10 months, 2 days before
    • Author: BAKERSCOT
12. Unicode::UTF8 - Encoding and decoding of UTF-8 encoding form
    • Version: 0.72 on 2026-07-07, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.71 was released 1 day before
    • Author: CHANSEN
13. YAMLStar - YAML 1.2 loader via FFI
    • Version: v0.1.12 on 2026-07-10, with 12 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.1.11 was released 17 days before
    • Author: INGY