(dcxiii) 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::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.103000 on 2026-08-14, with 903 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.102001 was released 3 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. App::rainbarf - CPU/RAM/battery stats chart bar for tmux (and GNU screen)
   • Version: 1.5 on 2026-08-15, with 1204 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.4 was released 9 years, 11 months, 8 days before
   • Author: SYP
3. App::sbozyp - a package manager for Slackware's SlackBuilds.org
   • Version: v1.8.0 on 2026-08-11, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v1.7.2 was released 3 months, 13 days before
   • Author: NHUBBARD
4. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
   • Version: 1.63 on 2026-08-14, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.62 was released 2 months, 27 days before
   • Author: ROBM
5. Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication - Infrastructure plugin for the Catalyst authentication framework.
   • Version: 0.10028 on 2026-08-08, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.10_027 was released 2 months before
   • Author: ETHER
6. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260811.001 on 2026-08-11, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260809.001 was released 2 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
7. Crypt::OpenSSL::X509 - Perl extension to OpenSSL's X509 API.
   • Version: 2.1.5 on 2026-08-10, with 27 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.1.4 was released 1 day before
   • Author: JONASBN
8. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.091 on 2026-08-10, with 54 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.090_004 was released 1 day before
   • Author: MIK
9. DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
   • Version: 1.652 on 2026-08-15, with 284 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.651 was released 1 month, 1 day before
   • Author: HMBRAND
10. GD - Perl interface to the libgd graphics library
    • Version: 2.90 on 2026-08-15, with 32 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.87 was released the same day
    • Author: RURBAN
11. Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Client - Google Ads API Client Library for Perl
    • Version: v33.1.0 on 2026-08-12, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v33.0.0 was released 19 days before
    • Author: MATTIAT
12. JSON::Schema::Modern - Validate data against a schema using a JSON Schema
    • Version: 0.644 on 2026-08-12, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.643 was released the same day
    • Author: ETHER
13. Log::Log4perl - Log4j implementation for Perl
    • Version: 1.58 on 2026-08-14, with 114 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.57 was released 3 years, 9 months, 24 days before
    • Author: MSCHILLI
14. Module::Metadata - Gather package and POD information from perl module files
    • Version: 1.000040 on 2026-08-10, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000039 was released 4 months, 7 days before
    • Author: ETHER
15. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.49 on 2026-08-09, with 514 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 9.48 was released 26 days before
    • Author: SRI
16. Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
    • Version: 20260813 on 2026-08-13, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20250602 was released 1 year, 2 months, 11 days before
    • Author: LWP
17. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
    • Version: 0.147 on 2026-08-13, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.146 was released 6 days before
    • Author: ETHER
18. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990192 on 2026-08-12, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990191 was released 1 month, 18 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
19. Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
    • Version: 0.64 on 2026-08-11, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.63 was released 2 days before
    • Author: JDB
20. Workflow - Simple, flexible system to implement workflows
    • Version: 2.11 on 2026-08-10, with 35 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.10 was released 29 days before
    • Author: JONASBN

(dcxii) 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::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.444 on 2026-08-04, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.443 was released 1 month, 10 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::perlimports - Make implicit imports explicit
   • Version: 0.000061 on 2026-08-06, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.000060 was released 3 months before
   • Author: OALDERS
3. Config::IniFiles - A module for reading .ini-style configuration files.
   • Version: 3.003000 on 2026-08-06, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.002000 was released 1 month, 21 days before
   • Author: SHLOMIF
4. Convert::Pheno - Convert clinical and phenotypic data between supported models
   • Version: 0.34 on 2026-08-03, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.33 was released 3 days before
   • Author: MRUEDA
5. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260807.001 on 2026-08-07, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260803.002 was released 4 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
6. Cucumber::TagExpressions - A library for parsing and evaluating cucumber tag expressions (filters)
   • Version: 11.0.1 on 2026-08-05, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 11.0.0 was released 13 days before
   • Author: CUKEBOT
7. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.034 on 2026-08-07, with 68 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.033 was released 1 month before
   • Author: TONYC
8. Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit
   • Version: 0.41 on 2026-08-04, with 21 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.40 was released 5 years, 4 months, 14 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
9. Marpa::R2 - Release 2 of Marpa
   • Version: 14.000000 on 2026-08-03, with 49 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 13.003_000 was released 4 days before
   • Author: JKEGL
10. Math::Prime::Util - Utilities related to prime numbers, including fast sieves and factoring
    • Version: 0.75 on 2026-08-08, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.75 was released the same day
    • Author: DANAJ
11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20260803 on 2026-08-03, with 46 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20260720 was released 12 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
12. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
    • Version: 0.146 on 2026-08-07, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.145 was released 3 days before
    • Author: ETHER
13. less - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.042003 on 2026-08-02, with 2310 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.040005 was released the same day
    • Author: SHAY
14. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20260808 on 2026-08-07, with 149 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20260705 was released 1 month, 3 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
15. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 5.010 on 2026-08-05, with 65 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.009 was released 19 days before
    • Author: YVES
16. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 5.010 on 2026-08-05, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.009 was released 19 days before
    • Author: YVES
17. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.010 on 2026-08-05, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.009 was released 19 days before
    • Author: YVES
18. Sidef - The Sidef Programming Language - A modern, high-level programming language
    • Version: 26.08 on 2026-08-07, with 126 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 26.07 was released 1 month, 4 days before
    • Author: TRIZEN
19. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v12.6.0 on 2026-08-06, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v12.5.0 was released 1 month, 3 days before
    • Author: DANBERR
20. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.66 on 2026-08-08, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.65 was released 2 days before
    • Author: YOREEK

(dcxxx) metacpan weekly report

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 78

Build date: 2026/08/08 12:55:00 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Shotgun - Shoots holes in files
• AI::Anthropic - Perl interface to Anthropic Claude API
• Apache::Session::Generate::Random - use system randomness for generating session ids
• API::Docker - Perl client for the Docker Engine API
• API::Instagram - Object Oriented Interface for the Instagram REST and Search APIs
• Common::CodingTools - Common constants and functions for programmers
• Container::Buildah - wrapper around containers/buildah tool for multi-stage builds of OCI/Docker-compatible Linux containers
• Crypt::SysRandom::XS - Perl interface to system randomness, XS version
• Crypt::xxHash - xxHash implementation for Perl
• Dancer2::Plugin::Feed - Easy to generate feed (RSS or atom) for Dancer2 applications.
• Data::BloomFilter::Shared - shared-memory Bloom filter for Linux
• DBIx::Class::Schema::GraphQL - Auto-generate a GraphQL schema from a DBIx::Class schema
• Devel::MAT::Dumper - write a heap dump file for later analysis
• Eshu - Indentation fixer for C, Perl, XS, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and POD source files
• GraphQL::Houtou - XS-backed GraphQL parser and execution toolkit for Perl
• PersonName::Format - CLDR person-name formatter for Perl
• Regexp::Pattern - Convention/framework for modules that contain collection of regexes
• Return::Set - Return a value optionally validated against a strict schema

Increasing its reputation:

• App::FatPacker (+1=49)
• App::HTTPThis (+1=26)
• App::Test::Generator (+1=2)
• Atomic::Pipe (+1=3)
• Bluesky (+1=2)
• Class::Factory (+1=2)
• Claude::Agent (+1=2)
• Container::Builder (+1=2)
• Cpanel::JSON::XS (+2=50)
• Crypt::SysRandom (+2=2)
• CryptX (+1=54)
• Data::Checks (+2=7)
• DBI (+1=284)
• DBIx::QuickDB (+1=4)
• DBIx::QuickORM (+2=3)
• Devel::Cover (+1=107)
• Devel::MAT (+1=32)
• Dist::Zilla (+1=189)
• Dist::Zilla::App::Command::cover (+1=21)
• EV::Future (+1=2)
• Future::AsyncAwait (+1=54)
• Getopt::Class (+1=3)
• HTML::Object (+1=2)
• Hyperman (+2=2)
• IO::K8s (+1=6)
• Kubernetes::REST (+1=3)
• Langertha (+1=3)
• lazy (+1=17)
• List::Compare (+1=16)
• LRU::Cache (+1=2)
• LWP::Protocol::https (+1=23)
• Markdown::Perl (+1=4)
• mb (+1=4)
• Module::Load (+1=33)
• Module::Pluggable (+1=27)
• Mojolicious (+1=514)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::BarefootJS (+1=2)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI::Modern (+1=8)
• Neovim::Ext (+1=2)
• Net::API::Stripe (+1=6)
• OpenAPI::Modern (+1=6)
• PAGI (+1=9)
• Perl::Critic::TooMuchCode (+1=9)
• Perl::Dist::APPerl (+1=9)
• Rex (+1=89)
• String::RewritePrefix (+1=4)
• Sys::Export (+2=2)
• Test::CPANfile (+1=4)
• Test::Harness (+1=67)
• Test::JSON::Schema::Acceptance (+1=2)
• Time::Str (+1=2)
• Tree::RB::XS (+1=6)
• Type::Tiny (+1=150)
• XS::Parse::Sublike (+1=9)

(dcxi) 11 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::zipdetails - Display details about the internal structure of Zip files
   • Version: 4.009 on 2026-07-25, with 67 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.008 was released 1 month, 9 days before
   • Author: PMQS
2. CallBackery - CallBackery is a Mojolicious+Qooxdoo Framework for building Web Applications
   • Version: v0.58.4 on 2026-07-31, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v0.58.3 was released 1 day before
   • Author: OETIKER
3. Convert::Pheno - Convert clinical and phenotypic data between supported models
   • Version: 0.33 on 2026-07-31, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.32 was released 8 days before
   • Author: MRUEDA
4. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260726.001 on 2026-07-26, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260720.001 was released 5 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
5. Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool
   • Version: 0.56 on 2026-07-31, with 31 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.55 was released 2 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
6. Module::Pluggable - automatically give your module the ability to have plugins
   • Version: 6.4 on 2026-07-25, with 26 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.3 was released 1 year, 6 months, 15 days before
   • Author: SIMONW
7. Net::BitTorrent - Pure Perl BitTorrent Client
   • Version: v2.1.1 on 2026-07-25, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v2.1.0 was released 6 days before
   • Author: SANKO
8. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
   • Version: 0.143 on 2026-07-28, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.142 was released 8 days before
   • Author: ETHER
9. Plerd - Ultralight blogging with Markdown and Dropbox
   • Version: 2.000 on 2026-07-25, with 117 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.903 was released 29 days before
   • Author: JMAC
10. Redis::Fast - Perl binding for Redis database
    • Version: 0.39 on 2026-07-27, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.38 was released the same day
    • Author: SHOGO
11. YAMLStar - YAML 1.2 loader via FFI
    • Version: v0.1.18 on 2026-07-29, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.1.17 was released 7 days before
    • Author: INGY