31 may 2025

(dl) 6 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: v3.9.0 on 2025-05-26, with 131 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v3.8.2 was 1 month, 20 days before
    • Author: PETDANCE
  2. Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information
    • Version: 13.30 on 2025-05-25, with 43 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 13.25 was 2 months, 14 days before
    • Author: EXIFTOOL
  3. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20250528 on 2025-05-29, with 44 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20250421 was 1 month, 8 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
  4. Pithub - Github v3 API
    • Version: 0.01043 on 2025-05-31, with 21 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.01042 was 8 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  5. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302214 on 2025-05-24, with 194 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302214 was before
    • Author: EXODIST
  6. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000160 on 2025-05-30, with 19 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000158 was 12 days before
    • Author: EXODIST

(dcviii) metacpan weekly report - Wanted

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 49

Week's winner: Wanted (+3)

Build date: 2025/05/31 14:46:27 GMT


Clicked for first time:

  • Crypt::SecretBuffer - Prevent accidentally copying a string of sensitive data
  • Dancer2::Plugin::LiteBlog - A minimalist, file-based blog engine for Dancer2.
  • DBIx::QuickORM - Actively maintained Object Relational Mapping that makes getting started Quick and has a rich feature set.
  • WWW::BugMeNot - An interface to the BugMeNot.com website. Given a URL that requires a registration, it returns a donated username and password

Increasing its reputation:

24 may 2025

(dxlix) 9 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: 2.085003 on 2025-05-24, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 2.085001 was 22 days before
    • Author: OLIVER
  2. DateTime::Format::Natural - Parse informal natural language date/time strings
    • Version: 1.21 on 2025-05-18, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.20 was 1 month, 27 days before
    • Author: SCHUBIGER
  3. Devel::Cover - Code coverage metrics for Perl
    • Version: 1.49 on 2025-05-18, with 103 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.48 was 7 days before
    • Author: PJCJ
  4. Devel::Size - Perl extension for finding the memory usage of Perl variables
    • Version: 0.85 on 2025-05-23, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.84 was 1 year, 28 days before
    • Author: NWCLARK
  5. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
    • Version: 7.76 on 2025-05-23, with 62 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 7.74 was 1 month, 14 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
  6. Pithub - Github v3 API
    • Version: 0.01042 on 2025-05-23, with 21 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.01041 was 1 year, 8 months, 30 days before
    • Author: OALDERS
  7. Test::BDD::Cucumber - Feature-complete Cucumber-style testing in Perl
    • Version: 0.87 on 2025-05-24, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.86 was 1 year, 9 months, 13 days before
    • Author: EHUELS
  8. Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
    • Version: 1.302213 on 2025-05-18, with 193 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.302212 was 2 days before
    • Author: EXODIST
  9. Test2::Harness - A new and improved test harness with better Test2 integration.
    • Version: 1.000158 on 2025-05-18, with 18 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 1.000157 was 14 days before
    • Author: EXODIST

17 may 2025

(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

11 may 2025

(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:


Increasing its reputation:

3 may 2025

(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