What's new on CPAN - June 2024

Jul 21, 2024 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

• App::CommonSuffixUtils (PERLANCAR) groups scripts that process common suffixes in a list of strings
• Fetch a record from the National Library of the Czech Republic and turn it into a MARC file with App::NKC2MARC (SKIM)
• App::Timestamper::Log::Process (SHLOMIF) provides some filters and queries for App::Timestamper logs
• App::runscript (SVW) can help you run an application that uses local::lib
• Data::Tranco (GBROWN) provides an interface to the Tranco list of popular domain names
• Allow your RT installation to call a webhook when it receives a Twilio SMS with RT::Extension::SMSWebhook::Twilio (BPS)
• SMS::Send::CZ::Smsmanager (RADIUSCZ) is another SMS::Send driver

Data

• A bevy of Sah-related parameterized schema bundles for:
  • The array type with Sah::PSchemaBundle::Array (PERLANCAR)
  • Perl with Sah::PSchemaBundle::Perl (PERLANCAR)
  • Regular expressions with Sah::PSchemaBundle::Re (PERLANCAR)
  • CPAN with Sah::SchemaBundle::CPAN (PERLANCAR)
  • Google Chrome with Sah::SchemaBundle::Chrome (PERLANCAR)
  • CODE type and coderefs with Sah::SchemaBundle::Code (PERLANCAR)
  • Collections with Sah::SchemaBundle::Collection (PERLANCAR) can Various Sah collection (array/hash) schemas
  • Color schemes with Sah::SchemaBundle::ColorScheme (PERLANCAR)
  • Color themes with Sah::SchemaBundle::ColorTheme (PERLANCAR)
  • Color codes/names with Sah::SchemaBundle::Color (PERLANCAR)
  • Nutrients with Sah::SchemaBundle::Nutrient (PERLANCAR)
• Follow conventions in your own Sah parameterized schema bundles with Sah::PSchemaBundle (PERLANCAR)
• Convert e-books in Aozora Bunko format to EPUB with Aozora2Epub (YOSHIMASA)
• Generate serializers/deserializers for XDR definitions using XDR::Gen (EHUELS)
• SpeL::Wizard (WDAEMS) can help with text-to-audio conversion of LaTeX documents
• Generate random strings from regular expressions using the regxstring library with String::Random::Regexp::regxstring (BLIAKO)
• Graphics::ColorNamesCMYK::All (PERLANCAR) collects CMYK colors
• Fluently transform arrays and hashes with HATX (HOEKIT)
• Furnish support for PostgreSQL fields in the CXC::DB::DDL table creation DDL with with CXC::DB::DDL::Field::Pg (DJERIUS)

Development & Version Control

• Determine number of days in a range of DateTime’s with DateTime::Schedule (TYRRMINAL)
• Devel::StatProfiler (MBARBON) is a sampling/statistical code profiler
• DWIM::Block (DCONWAY) lets you use AI::Chat without having to write the infrastructure code
• ExtUtils::Typemaps::Misc (LEONT) is a collection of miscellaneous typemap templates
• Use WebAssembly in Perl with Extism (EXTISM)
• Filter::Syntactic (DCONWAY) lets you employ source filters based on syntax (instead of luck)
• Switch::Back (DCONWAY) implements a modified version of Perl’s deprecated given/when statement
• Switch::Right (DCONWAY) fixes and brings back Perl’s deprecated switch and smartmatch features
• Interface with Linux and FreeBSD’s getrandom(2) call with Sys::GetRandom::PP (MAUKE)
• Multi::Dispatch (DCONWAY) provides full-featured multiple dispatch for subs and methods
• SPVM::R (KIMOTO) ports R language features to SPVM

Science & Mathematics

• Additions to the Bio::SeqAlignment collection of tools and libraries for aligning biological sequences:
  • Bio::SeqAlignment::Examples::TailingPolyester (CHRISARG)
  • Bio::SeqAlignment::Applications::SequencingSimulators::RNASeq::Polyester (CHRISARG)
  • Bio::SeqAlignment::Components::Libraries::edlib (CHRISARG)
  • Bio::SeqAlignment::Components::SeqMapping (CHRISARG)
  • Bio::SeqAlignment::Components::Sundry (CHRISARG)
  • Bio::SeqAlignment::Examples::EnhancingEdlib (CHRISARG)
  • Bio::SeqAlignment::Examples::TailingPolyester (CHRISARG)
• Calculate Recamán’s sequence with Math::Recaman (SIMONW)

Web

• New Kelp plugins that give your web apps access to:
  • Beam::Wire with Kelp::Module::Beam::Wire (BRTASTIC)
  • YAML::PP with Kelp::Module::YAML (BRTASTIC)
• Generate HTML tags for:
  • footers with Tags::HTML::Footer (SKIM)
  • message boards with Tags::HTML::Message::Board (SKIM)

Other

• Control the SunVox modular synthesizer/tracker with Audio::SunVox::FFI (JBARRETT)
• Raylib::FFI (PERIGRIN) provides bindings for the raylib library