(dcxxiv) 29 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: 2.445 on 2026-10-28, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.444 was released 2 months, 24 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.117000 on 2026-10-30, with 935 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.116000 was released 6 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. App::rainbarf - CPU/RAM/battery stats chart bar for tmux (and GNU screen)
   • Version: 1.6 on 2026-10-31, with 1209 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.5 was released 2 months, 15 days before
   • Author: SYP
4. Attean - A Semantic Web Framework
   • Version: 0.040 on 2026-10-27, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.039_02 was released 1 day before
   • Author: GWILLIAMS
5. CallBackery - CallBackery is a Mojolicious+Qooxdoo Framework for building Web Applications
   • Version: v0.62.0 on 2026-10-30, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v0.61.3 was released 9 days before
   • Author: OETIKER
6. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20261027.002 on 2026-10-27, with 30 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20261027.001 was released the same day
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
7. Dancer2 - Lightweight yet powerful web application framework
   • Version: 2.3.0 on 2026-10-27, with 140 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.2.2 was released 28 days before
   • Author: CROMEDOME
8. DateTime - A date and time object for Perl
   • Version: 1.68 on 2026-10-30, with 224 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.67 was released 1 month, 30 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
9. DateTime::TimeZone - Time zone object base class and factory
   • Version: 2.72 on 2026-10-28, with 23 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.71 was released 27 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
10. Encode - character encodings in Perl
    • Version: 3.25 on 2026-10-26, with 65 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.24 was released 5 months, 26 days before
    • Author: DANKOGAI
11. Finance::Quote - Get stock and mutual fund quotes from various exchanges
    • Version: 1.72 on 2026-10-25, with 150 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.71_01 was released 1 month, 23 days before
    • Author: BPSCHUCK
12. Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Client - Google Ads API Client Library for Perl
    • Version: v36.1.0 on 2026-10-29, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v36.0.0 was released 14 days before
    • Author: MATTIAT
13. HTTP::Parser::XS - a fast, primitive HTTP request parser
    • Version: 0.18 on 2026-10-29, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.17 was released 11 years, 10 months, 13 days before
    • Author: KAZUHO
14. Inline::Python - Write Perl subs and classes in Python.
    • Version: 0.59 on 2026-10-25, with 16 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.58 was released 1 year, 5 months, 11 days before
    • Author: NINE
15. Net::FTP - Collection of network protocol modules
    • Version: 3.16 on 2026-10-24, with 32 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.15 was released 3 years, 7 months, 3 days before
    • Author: SHAY
16. Mail::DMARC - Perl implementation of DMARC
    • Version: 2.20261030 on 2026-10-30, with 38 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.20260827 was released 2 months, 2 days before
    • Author: MSIMERSON
17. MIME::Body - Tools to manipulate MIME messages
    • Version: 5.522 on 2026-10-27, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.521 was released the same day
    • Author: DSKOLL
18. Mojo::Pg - Mojolicious ♥ PostgreSQL
    • Version: 5.01 on 2026-10-25, with 98 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.0 was released 5 months, 12 days before
    • Author: SRI
19. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
    • Version: 9.53 on 2026-10-24, with 516 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 9.52 was released the same day
    • Author: SRI
20. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
    • Version: 0.151 on 2026-10-30, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.150 was released 14 days before
    • Author: ETHER
21. OpenTelemetry::SDK - An implementation of the OpenTelemetry SDK for Perl
    • Version: 0.101 on 2026-10-30, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.100 was released 18 days before
    • Author: JJATRIA
22. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 6.002 on 2026-10-30, with 65 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.001 was released the same day
    • Author: YVES
23. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 6.002 on 2026-10-30, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.001 was released the same day
    • Author: YVES
24. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 6.002 on 2026-10-30, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 6.001 was released the same day
    • Author: YVES
25. SNMP::Info - OO Interface to Network devices and MIBs through SNMP
    • Version: 3.984000 on 2026-10-30, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.983000 was released 3 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
26. Spreadsheet::XLSX - Perl extension for reading MS Excel 2007 files.
    • Version: 0.20 on 2026-10-29, with 20 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.19 was released the same day
    • Author: ASB
27. Starlet - a simple, high-performance PSGI/Plack HTTP server
    • Version: 0.33 on 2026-10-29, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.32 was released 5 months, 22 days before
    • Author: KAZUHO
28. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000182 on 2026-10-27, with 28 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000181 was released the same day
    • Author: EXODIST
29. YAMLStar - YAML 1.2 loader via FFI
    • Version: v0.1.28 on 2026-10-28, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.1.26 was released 8 days before
    • Author: INGY