What's new on CPAN - November 2018

Dec 18, 2018 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

• Get a perly interface to Cisco Firepower Management Center using Net::Cisco::FMC::v1
• Mail::DataFeed::Abusix can send SMTP transaction data to the Abusix transaction feed
• Neo4j::Driver is an unofficial implementation of the Neo4j Driver API
• REST::Client::CrossRef provides a client for the CrossRef API

Config & Devops

• Parse a distribution name using Parse::Distname

Data

• DBIx::Class::Smooth provides more sugar for DBIx::Class
• Bools aren’t just for JSON! Use them everywhere with Data::Bool
• Data::Dict supplies a hash-based dictionary object
• Parse the tabular data format generated by database SELECTs with Table::BoxFormat
• Graphics::Skullplot can plot the result of a SQL select query

Development & Version Control

• Mojo::AsyncAwait is an Async/Await implementation for the Mojolicious ecosystem
• Path::Tiny::Glob is a file globbing utility which supports **
• Enforce using the /a or /aa modifier with regular expressions with Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::RequireDefault
• Don’t permit reuse of names for different types of variables using Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::NameReuse

Hardware

• Device::Chip::ADT7470 is a chip driver for the ADT7470

Web

• Parse the HTTP header ‘Accept-Charset’ using HTTP::AcceptCharset
• Validate mails against DMARC policy asynchronously using Mail::DMARC::Iterator
• Export a Mojolicious website to static files using Mojolicious::Command::export
• Plack::Middleware::Debug::RefCounts debug Plack apps with refcounts
• Super-convenient blogging with Markdown and Dropbox: Plerd