What's new on CPAN - December 2024

Feb 2, 2025 by Mathew Korica

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

• Automatically generate changelogs based on Git commit history with App::Changelog (OLOOEEZ)
• Webservice::Sendy::API (OODLER) provides an interface to the Sendy e-mail marketing service, with the purpose of superseding a comparable module that is no longer maintained
• Manage standup preparation and presentation notes with App::Standup::Diary (SMONFF)
• Bluesky (SANKO) provides a high-level interface to the Bluesky social network
• App::datasection (PLICEASE) lets you manage the DATA section of source files from the command line
• Repeat a command an arbitrary number of times using App::repeat (PERLANCAR)

Config & Devops

• CPAN::Namespace::Check::Visibility (CONTRA) checks whether a namespace exists on CPAN
• Create a security policy for your distribution with Software::Security::Policy (TIMLEGGE)

Data

• Poz (YTURTLE) is a data validation library heavily inspired by Typescript’s Zod
• Find unique or duplicate files in a directory with File::FindUniq (PERLANCAR)
• Data::Section::Pluggable (PLICEASE) lets you read structured data from the DATA section of your module or script. Use it with Data::Section::Pluggable::Plugin::Yaml (PLICEASE) to decode YAML

Development & Version Control

• Programmatically update the DATA section of source files with Data::Section::Writer (PLICEASE). Compatible with formats of many DATA section-reading modules
• Use Test::SpellCheck (PLICEASE) to spellcheck POD within your tests
• Tie::Hash::DataSection (PLICEASE) lets you access the DATA section of source files via tied hash

Language & International

• Text::Table::Boxed (JIMAVERA) is a wrapper for Text::Table that automates column separators and horizontal rules

Science & Mathematics

• YAGL (RLOVELAND) is “Yet Another Graph Library”. Helpfully lists features so you can compare it against venerable Graph
• Calculate different types of degree days using Temperature::Calculate::DegreeDays (AALLGOOD)
• Calculate potential evapotranspiration (PET) with Drought::PET::Thornthwaite (AALLGOOD)
• Crypt::URandom::Token (STIGTSP) provides a secure way to generate a random token for passwords, etc.
• Math::Symbolic::Custom::Matrix (MJOHNSON) provides some routines for manipulating matrices of Math::Symbolic expressions

Web

• Add retry capabilities to your Mojo::UserAgent HTTP requests using Mojo::UserAgent::Role::Retry (SSMN)