What's new on CPAN - April 2017

May 7, 2017 by David Farrell

Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• App::GHPT is command line tool to simplify using Github and Pivotal Tracker for an agile workflow
• Execute command on remote hosts over SSH using App::rcmd
• Google::Cloud::Speech provides an interface to Google’s audio transcription service
• A client for the open-source, distributed Twitter clone: Mastodon::Client
• Get a Perl API for HashiCorp’s Vault using WebService::HashiCorp::Vault
• WebService::Pixabay let’s you search Pixabay’s API for creative commons licensed pictures and videos

Config & Devops

• Data::Validate::DNS::CAA validates DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) values
• Print sub documentation with Pod::Sub::Usage. Also: select parts in a file using pod directives using Pod::Simple::Select

Data

• Use Google’s Zopfli Compression Algorithm with Compress::Zopfli
• Create pivot tables from queries using DBIx::PivotQuery
• Model stock market contracts with Finance::Contract
• Get color system conversions for PDL using PDL::Transform::Color
• Text::JSON::Nibble nibbles complete JSON objects from buffers
• YAML::PP is a new YAML parser, aiming for the v1.2 spec

Development & Version Control

• IO::Framed is a convenience wrapper for frame-based I/O
• Mojo::TypeModel provides a very simple model system using Mojo::Base
• Define scripts as Moo classes using MooX::Options::Actions
• Manage pre-forked sub-processes using Parallel::PreForkManager
• Term::Spinner::Color is a terminal spinner/progress bar with Unicode, color, and no non-core dependencies
• Try::Tiny::Tiny patches Try::Tiny to slim it down
• Reini Urban has uploaded 2 new fast regex backends:
  • re::engine::Hyperscan uses Intel’s Hyperscan high performance library
  • re::engine::PCRE2 provides an interface to the PCRE2 regular expression engine

Hardware

• Perl bindings to the LabOne Zurich Instruments API with Lab::Zhinst
• Manage the Fritz!Box phonebook from Perl using Net::Fritz::Phonebook
• RPi::LCD provides a perly interface to Raspberry Pi LCD displays via the GPIO pins

Language & International

• Lingua::Guess is a statistical language guesser
• Lingua::ZH::Jieba POS tagging, keyword extraction and more provided by the Jieba Chinese text library
• Word2vec::Interface wraps a huge number of text processing functions

Science & Mathematics

• BioX::Seq a (very) basic biological sequence object
• BioX::Workflow::Command is a templating system for BioInformatics workflows
• Crypt::OpenSSL::FASTPBKDF2 generates stronger cryptographic keys using the fastpbkdf2 library

Web

• Support notifications in your Dancer2 web application using Dancer2::Plugin::FlashNote
• Use the Web Application Messaging Protocol with Net::WAMP
• Template::Lace implements logic-less and componentized HTML templates

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.