(dxlviii) 8 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: 2.430 on 2025-05-13, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.429 was 8 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. Firefox::Marionette - Automate the Firefox browser with the Marionette protocol
   • Version: 1.66 on 2025-05-17, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.64 was 1 month, 28 days before
   • Author: DDICK
3. Inline::Python - Write Perl subs and classes in Python.
   • Version: 0.58 on 2025-05-14, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.57 was 2 years, 7 months, 26 days before
   • Author: NINE
4. Module::Build::Tiny - A tiny replacement for Module::Build
   • Version: 0.052 on 2025-05-12, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.051 was 8 months, 6 days before
   • Author: LEONT
5. Mojolicious - Real-time web framework
   • Version: 9.40 on 2025-05-12, with 504 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 9.39 was 5 months, 19 days before
   • Author: SRI
6. Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod
   • Version: 3.47 on 2025-05-15, with 20 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.45 was 2 years before
   • Author: KHW
7. Test::Class::Moose - Serious testing for serious Perl
   • Version: 1.00 on 2025-05-16, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.99 was 4 years, 3 months, 9 days before
   • Author: EXODIST
8. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
   • Version: 1.302212 on 2025-05-16, with 192 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.302211 was 14 days before
   • Author: EXODIST

(dxlvii) 12 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: 2.429 on 2025-05-05, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.428 was 8 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::ModuleBuildTiny - A standalone authoring tool for Module::Build::Tiny and Dist::Build
   • Version: 0.051 on 2025-05-04, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.050 was 23 days before
   • Author: LEONT
3. Cache::FastMmap - Uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache
   • Version: 1.58 on 2025-05-05, with 24 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.57 was 3 years, 7 months, 5 days before
   • Author: ROBM
4. Devel::Cover - Code coverage metrics for Perl
   • Version: 1.48 on 2025-05-11, with 103 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.46 was 9 days before
   • Author: PJCJ
5. Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool
   • Version: v3.1.26 on 2025-05-05, with 64 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v3.1.25 was 8 months, 25 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
6. Module::Starter - a simple starter kit for any module
   • Version: 1.78 on 2025-05-04, with 33 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.77 was 4 years, 7 months, 29 days before
   • Author: DBOOK
7. Perl::MinimumVersion - Find a minimum required version of perl for Perl code
   • Version: 1.44 on 2025-05-04, with 24 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.40 was 4 years, 12 days before
   • Author: DBOOK
8. PPI - Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)
   • Version: 1.283 on 2025-05-04, with 61 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.281 was 4 months, 8 days before
   • Author: MITHALDU
9. Software::License - packages that provide templated software licenses
   • Version: 0.104007 on 2025-05-04, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.104006 was 1 year, 2 months, 24 days before
   • Author: LEONT
10. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000157 on 2025-05-04, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000156 was 3 months, 13 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
11. URI - Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
    • Version: 5.32 on 2025-05-10, with 119 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.31 was 6 months, 4 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
12. YAML::LibYAML - Perl YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml
    • Version: v0.904.0 on 2025-05-08, with 60 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v0.903.0 was 3 months, 6 days before
    • Author: TINITA

(dcvii) metacpan weekly report - Const::XS

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 43

Week's winner: Const::XS (+3)

Build date: 2025/05/11 13:42:58 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::GUI::Juliagraph - drawing Mandelbrot and Julia fractals with complex equations
• App::Hack::Exe - An animated terminal app that pretends to hack a website, just like in the movies
• App::InstagramURLUtils - Utilities related to Instagram URLs
• FixerIO::API - Access to the fixer.io currency exchange rate API.
• Math::Basic::XS - basic math faster
• smallnum::XS - faster transparent "SmallNumber" support for Perl

Increasing its reputation:

• App::Cme (+1=2)
• App::DBBrowser (+2=17)
• Carp (+1=76)
• Class::Trigger (+1=5)
• Const::XS (+3=3)
• Data::ICal::DateTime (+1=2)
• DBD::mysql (+1=61)
• DBD::SQLite (+1=106)
• DBIx::Class::ResultSet::PrettyPrint (+1=2)
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker (+1=62)
• FindBin (+1=7)
• IO (+1=67)
• IO::All (+1=69)
• Log::Any::Adapter::Log4perl (+1=5)
• Map::Tube (+1=9)
• Markdown::Perl (+1=3)
• Mock::Quick (+1=15)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::WithCSRFProtection (+1=3)
• Net::RDAP (+1=4)
• Path::Tiny (+2=192)
• PDL (+1=58)
• perl (+1=433)
• Perl::Tidy (+1=143)
• Regexp::Log::Common (+1=2)
• Software::Security::Policy (+1=3)
• SQL::Interp (+1=9)
• Tk (+1=34)
• TryCatch (+1=16)
• Type::Tiny (+1=144)
• Variable::Magic (+1=25)
• Win32::LongPath (+1=8)
• WWW::YouTube::Download (+1=22)
• YAML::LibYAML (+1=60)

(dxlvi) 15 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: 2.428 on 2025-04-27, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.427 was 17 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::Netdisco - An open source web-based network management tool.
   • Version: 2.085001 on 2025-05-02, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.084002 was 13 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
3. App::perlimports - Make implicit imports explicit
   • Version: 0.000057 on 2025-04-30, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.000056 was 1 month, 28 days before
   • Author: OALDERS
4. App::Sqitch - Sensible database change management
   • Version: v1.5.2 on 2025-04-29, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v1.5.1 was 1 month, 13 days before
   • Author: DWHEELER
5. Code::TidyAll - Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator
   • Version: 0.85 on 2025-04-27, with 40 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.84 was 1 year, 4 months, 17 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
6. Crypt::JWT - JSON Web Token
   • Version: 0.037 on 2025-04-27, with 26 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.036 was 3 months, 1 day before
   • Author: MIK
7. CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit
   • Version: 0.086 on 2025-05-02, with 52 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.085 was 2 months, 22 days before
   • Author: MIK
8. Devel::Cover - Code coverage metrics for Perl
   • Version: 1.46 on 2025-05-02, with 103 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.44 was 10 months, 22 days before
   • Author: PJCJ
9. Dist::Zilla - distribution builder; installer not included!
   • Version: 6.033 on 2025-05-01, with 185 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 6.032 was 11 months, 7 days before
   • Author: RJBS
10. experimental - Experimental features made easy
    • Version: 0.035 on 2025-05-01, with 31 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.034 was 3 months, 23 days before
    • Author: LEONT
11. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990058 on 2025-05-02, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990057 was 7 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
12. Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
    • Version: 1.774 on 2025-04-27, with 15 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.773 was 17 days before
    • Author: KUERBIS
13. Test::Harness - contributing to TAP::Harness
    • Version: 3.52 on 2025-05-03, with 63 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 3.50 was 8 months, 21 days before
    • Author: LEONT
14. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302211 on 2025-05-02, with 192 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302210 was 1 month, 4 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
15. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 2.008002 on 2025-04-30, with 143 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.008001 was 15 days before
    • Author: TOBYINK

(dxlv) 5 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. IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
   • Version: 0.804 on 2025-04-22, with 77 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.803 was 1 year, 2 months, 24 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
2. meta - meta-programming API
   • Version: 0.013 on 2025-04-23, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.012 was 6 months, 9 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
3. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20250421 on 2025-04-21, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20250414 was 8 days before
   • Author: BINGOS
4. Module::Runtime - runtime module handling
   • Version: 0.018 on 2025-04-21, with 30 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.017 was 15 days before
   • Author: HAARG
5. SPVM - The SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.990057 on 2025-04-25, with 36 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.990054 was 7 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO

(dcvi) metacpan weekly report - perl

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 51

Week's winner: perl (+3)

Build date: 2025/04/20 11:57:45 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::cpx - Install and execute CPAN package binaries
• Data::ICal::DateTime - convenience methods for using Data::ICal with DateTime
• Data::Reuse - share constant values with Data::Alias
• DBIx::Class::ResultSet::PrettyPrint - Pretty print DBIx::Class result sets.
• Dist::Build - A modern module builder, author tools not included!
• Egg::Release - lib/Egg/Release.pm
• ExtUtils::Typemaps::Magic - Typemap for storing objects in magic
• ExtUtils::Typemaps::Misc - A collection of miscelaneous typemap templates
• IO::Uring - io_uring for Perl
• Object::Signature::Portable - generate portable fingerprints of objects
• ogd - ordered global destruction of objects stored in globals
• PDL::Graphics::TriD - quick routines to plot lots of stuff from ndarrays.
• Type::Guess - Guess data types

Increasing its reputation:

• A1z::HTML5::Template (+1=3)
• aliased (+1=35)
• AnyEvent::HTTP (+1=35)
• App::DBBrowser (+1=16)
• App::NDTools (+1=2)
• CPAN::Mini::Inject (+1=7)
• Crypt::Curve25519 (+1=2)
• Dancer2 (+1=137)
• Data::ObjectDriver (+1=7)
• Encode::Simple (+1=5)
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker (+1=61)
• Feersum (+1=14)
• File::Slurp (+1=77)
• GD (+1=31)
• Guard (+1=22)
• HTML5::DOM (+1=14)
• JQ::Lite (+1=5)
• libwww::perl (+1=170)
• Math::PlanePath (+1=3)
• Mojolicious (+2=504)
• Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI::Modern (+1=5)
• Number::Fraction (+1=3)
• OpenGL::GLFW (+1=2)
• perl (+3=432)
• Poker::Eval (+1=3)
• Scope::Guard (+2=20)
• String::Similarity (+1=5)
• Task::MemManager (+1=4)
• Test::File (+1=13)
• Time::Piece (+1=60)
• Type::Alias (+1=2)
• Type::Tiny (+1=143)
• WWW::Autosite (+1=3)
• XML::Fast (+1=15)

(dxliv) 16 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: 2.084002 on 2025-04-19, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.084001 was 1 month, 10 days before
   • Author: OLIVER
2. CPAN::Changes - Parser for CPAN style change logs
   • Version: 0.500005 on 2025-04-17, with 32 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.500004 was 11 months, 15 days before
   • Author: HAARG
3. IO::Interactive - Utilities for interactive I/O
   • Version: 1.027 on 2025-04-17, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.026 was 2 months, 22 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
4. Mail::Box - complete E-mail handling suite
   • Version: 3.011 on 2025-04-19, with 16 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.010 was 1 year, 9 months, 1 day before
   • Author: MARKOV
5. Math::BigInt - Pure Perl module to test Math::BigInt with scalars
   • Version: 2.005003 on 2025-04-13, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.005002 was 16 days before
   • Author: PJACKLAM
6. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
   • Version: 5.20250414 on 2025-04-13, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.20250321 was 23 days before
   • Author: BINGOS
7. MooseX::Types - Organise your Moose types in libraries
   • Version: 0.51 on 2025-04-19, with 32 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.50 was 8 years, 2 months, 12 days before
   • Author: ETHER
8. OpenGL - Perl bindings to the OpenGL API, GLU, and GLUT/FreeGLUT
   • Version: 0.7006 on 2025-04-14, with 13 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.70 was 8 years, 6 months, 6 days before
   • Author: ETJ
9. perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter
   • Version: 5.040002 on 2025-04-13, with 432 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.40.1 was 2 months, 26 days before
   • Author: SHAY
10. PerlPowerTools - BSD utilities written in pure Perl
    • Version: 1.051 on 2025-04-13, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.049 was 2 months, 7 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
11. SPVM - The SPVM Language
    • Version: 0.990054 on 2025-04-18, with 36 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.990052 was 14 days before
    • Author: KIMOTO
12. Test::File - test file attributes
    • Version: 1.995 on 2025-04-13, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.994 was 3 months, 10 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
13. Test::Output - Utilities to test STDOUT and STDERR messages.
    • Version: 1.036 on 2025-04-14, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.035 was 3 months, 11 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
14. Text::MultiMarkdown - Convert MultiMarkdown syntax to (X)HTML
    • Version: 1.005 on 2025-04-13, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.004 was 3 months, 7 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY
15. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 2.008001 on 2025-04-15, with 143 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.008000 was 15 days before
    • Author: TOBYINK
16. Unicode::Tussle - Tom's Unicode Scripts So Life is Easier
    • Version: 1.122 on 2025-04-16, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.121 was 2 months, 18 days before
    • Author: BRIANDFOY

(dxliii) 8 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::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.997023 on 2025-04-10, with 74 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.997022 was 5 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
2. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.427 on 2025-04-10, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.426 was 17 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
3. App::ModuleBuildTiny - A standalone authoring tool for Module::Build::Tiny and Dist::Build
   • Version: 0.050 on 2025-04-11, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.049 was 10 days before
   • Author: LEONT
4. DBD::mysql - A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
   • Version: 5.012 on 2025-04-11, with 60 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 5.011 was 3 months, 5 days before
   • Author: DVEEDEN
5. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
   • Version: 7.74 on 2025-04-09, with 61 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 7.72 was 26 days before
   • Author: BINGOS
6. Feersum - A PSGI engine for Perl based on EV/libev
   • Version: 1.505 on 2025-04-09, with 14 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.504 was 2 months, 23 days before
   • Author: EGOR
7. Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
   • Version: 1.773 on 2025-04-10, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.772 was 10 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
8. Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects
   • Version: 1.36 on 2025-04-07, with 60 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.35 was 3 months, 1 day before
   • Author: ESAYM

(dxlii) 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::Ack - A grep-like program for searching source code
   • Version: v3.8.2 on 2025-04-06, with 131 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: v3.8.1 was 3 months, 5 days before
   • Author: PETDANCE
2. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.997022 on 2025-04-05, with 74 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.997021 was 3 months, 25 days before
   • Author: SKAJI
3. App::ModuleBuildTiny - A standalone authoring tool for Module::Build::Tiny and Dist::Build
   • Version: 0.049 on 2025-04-01, with 12 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.048 was 12 days before
   • Author: LEONT
4. CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
   • Version: 4.68 on 2025-04-01, with 44 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 4.67 was 2 months, 24 days before
   • Author: LEEJO
5. Kelp - A web framework light, yet rich in nutrients.
   • Version: 2.21 on 2025-04-02, with 45 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.19 was 5 months, 23 days before
   • Author: BRTASTIC
6. Module::Runtime - runtime module handling
   • Version: 0.017 on 2025-04-06, with 30 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.016 was 7 years, 5 months, 20 days before
   • Author: HAARG
7. Scalar::List::Utils - Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
   • Version: 1.69 on 2025-04-01, with 181 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.68 was 5 months, 14 days before
   • Author: PEVANS
8. SPVM - The SPVM Language
   • Version: 0.990052 on 2025-04-04, with 36 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.990049 was 15 days before
   • Author: KIMOTO
9. Term::Choose - Choose items from a list interactively.
   • Version: 1.772 on 2025-03-31, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.771 was 3 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
10. Test::Deep - Extremely flexible deep comparison
    • Version: 1.205 on 2025-04-01, with 54 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.204 was 2 years, 2 months, 25 days before
    • Author: RJBS
11. Type::Tiny - tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
    • Version: 2.008000 on 2025-03-31, with 142 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.006000 was 6 months, 2 days before
    • Author: TOBYINK

(dcv) metacpan weekly report - JQ::Lite

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 32

Week's winner: JQ::Lite (+3)

Build date: 2025/04/06 21:48:00 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::GLOINBG::Utils - Utilities module for GLOINBG projects
• CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
• String::Fuzzy - Python-style fuzzy string matching (fuzzywuzzy port)
• Test2::Tools::TypeTiny - Test2 tools for checking Type::Tiny types

Increasing its reputation:

• ARGV::JSON (+1=4)
• Brownie (+1=4)
• DateTime (+1=223)
• DateTime::TimeZone (+1=22)
• Devel::Cover (+1=103)
• Encode (+1=64)
• Getopt::Long (+1=124)
• HTML::Strip (+1=8)
• JQ::Lite (+3=4)
• JSON::PP (+1=20)
• Message::Passing (+1=18)
• Module::Loader (+1=5)
• Mojo::IOLoop::ReadWriteProcess (+1=6)
• perl (+1=430)
• PerlX::Maybe (+1=36)
• Rex (+2=86)
• Scalar::List::Utils (+1=181)
• SQL::Abstract (+1=77)
• Test::BDD::Cucumber (+1=17)
• Test::Ika (+1=3)
• Test::Spec (+1=21)
• Time::Moment (+1=74)
• XML::Feed (+1=11)
• XML::FeedPP (+1=2)
• XML::RSS (+1=10)