What's new on CPAN - October 2024

Dec 3, 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

• Format the output of App::Greple with:
  • App::Greple::stripe (UTASHIRO) for zebra stripes
  • App::Greple::under (UTASHIRO) for underlining
• Subscribe to an MQTT topic and trigger job execution with App::mqtt2job (CHRISC)
• Dist::Zilla::App::Command::DiffMint (HAARG) displays a diff of the current distribution with what would be created by minting a distribution with the same name
• Business::PAYONE (ARTHAS) provides an API to the PAYONE online payment system
• Manage Slackware SlackBuild scripts with Slackware::SBoKeeper (SAMYOUNG)
• Geo::Coder::GeoApify (NHORNE) provides access to the Geoapify Maps API

Config & Devops

• Find or install the fpm package builder with Alien::fpm (NHUBBARD)
• Rex::Commands::PerlSync (BRTASTIC) provides another way to sync directories with Rex

Data

• Pretty print DBIx::Class result sets with DBIx::Class::ResultSet::PrettyPrint (PTC)
• DBIx::QuickORM (EXODIST) is an ORM that picks up where DBIx::Class left off
• Portably read/write file metadata with File::Information (LION)
• DateTime::Format::Intl (JDEGUEST) implements JavaScript’s Intl.DateTimeFormat class
• List::Stream (RAWLEYFOW) provides lazy, functional manipulation of lists
• Cache::Memcached::PDeque (HAIJENP) implements a priority deque using memcached as storage

Development & Version Control

• Use a file to share variables between Perl processes with File::SharedVar (CDRAKE)
• New Dist::Zilla plugins:
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::SimpleBootstrap (HAARG) bootstraps a Dist::Zilla library
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::Pod::Coverage::TrustMe (HAARG) provides an author test for Pod coverage
• Implement an RDAP server with Net::RDAP::Server (GBROWN)
• Abstract away file storage with Storage::Abstract (BRTASTIC)
• Syntax::Keyword::Assert (KFLY) provides debugging checks that throw exceptions
• Syntax::Keyword::PhaserExpression (PEVANS) provides a syntax plugin that alters the behaviour of Perl’s BEGIN keyword
• Sys::Ebpf (TAKEMIO) provides an interface to eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter)
• XTP (DYLIBSO) is the Perl SDK for XTP
• New subroutines-by-spec that make use of file modification time:
  • Comparer::file_mtime (PERLANCAR) follows the Comparer spec
  • SortKey::Num::file_mtime (PERLANCAR) follows the SortKey spec
  • Sorter::file_by_mtime (PERLANCAR) follows the Sorter spec
• Debug::Helper::Flag (AAHAZRED) defines and imports a boolean constant for debugging purposes
• New extensions for the SPVM language:
  • SPVM::IO::Socket::SSL (KIMOTO) provides SSL
  • SPVM::Net::DNS::Native (KIMOTO) provides methods for non-blocking access to getaddrinfo
• SQL::Formatter (PLICEASE) formats SQL using the Rust sqlformat library

Hardware

• Device::Chip::From::Sensirion (PEVANS) is a collection of chip drivers for Sensirion sensors

Language & International

• Locale::Intl (JDEGUEST) implements JavaScript’s Intl.Locale class

Science & Mathematics

• Math::LiveStats (CDRAKE) makes mean, standard deviation, vwap, and p-values available for one or more window sizes in streaming data

Web

• Use Valiant to create HTML form elements in your Catalyst app’s EmbeddedPerl View classes with Catalyst::View::EmbeddedPerl::PerRequest::ValiantRole (JJNAPIORK)
• Serve files abstracted by Storage::Abstract on Plack web server abstraction using Plack::App::Storage::Abstract (BRTASTIC), and on the Kelp framework using Kelp::Module::Storage::Abstract (BRTASTIC)
• Minima (TESSARIN) is a new web framework