What's new on CPAN - August 2024

Oct 14, 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

• Create an RSS feed from Markdown files with App::BookmarkFeed (SCHROEDER)
• Mask standard input to a command with App::optex::mask (UTASHIRO)
• App::prefixcat (PERLANCAR) is like Unix cat but prefixes each line with the filename
• Scrape a Github release page for asset files with Github::ReleaseFetcher (TEODESIAN)
• Some entertaining demonstrations of API clients:
  • Acme::Free::API::ChuckNorris (OODLER)
  • Acme::Free::API::Stonks (OODLER)
  • Acme::Free::API::Ye (OODLER)
• Langertha (GETTY) provides a unified interface to various LLM API’s

Config & Devops

• OpenFeature::SDK (CATOUC) lets you flag features in your code on the basis of the OpenFeature API
• Autoconfiscate a Perl application with Autoconf::Template (BIGFOOT)
• Portably locate per-distribution and per-module shared files with File::ShareDir::Tiny (LEONT)

Data

• Store the constraints of multiple constraint libraries with kura (KFLY)
• Parse Indonesian vehicle plate numbers with Business::ID::VehiclePlate (PERLANCAR)
• New Sah schemas:
  • Sah::SchemaBundle::DNS (PERLANCAR) for schemas related to DNS
  • Sah::SchemaBundle::Data::Sah (PERLANCAR) for schemas related to Data::Sah
  • Sah::SchemaBundle::DataSizeSpeed (PERLANCAR) for schemas related to data sizes & speeds (filesize, transfer speed, etc.)
• DateTime::Locale::FromCLDR (JDEGUEST) provides locale data for DateTime via the also newly released Locale::Unicode::Data (see Language & International)

Development & Version Control

• Net::OpenSSH::More (TEODESIAN) adds features to Net::OpenSSH
• Use JSON Schema in your Moose classes with MooseX::JSONSchema (GETTY)
• Convert POD to HTML with MetaCPAN::Pod::HTML (HAARG)
• Ascii::Text (LNATION) generates ASCII text in various fonts and styles
• Perform asynchronous actions when a socket changes status with IO::SocketAlarm (NERDVANA)
• Implement clients and servers that communicate over a local UNIX socket with IPC::MicroSocket (PEVANS)
• Access fields of other Object::Pad instances with Object::Pad::Operator::Of (PEVANS)
• RxPerl::Extras (KARJALA) provides extra operators for RxPerl
• Syntax::Keyword::Assert (KFLY) provides an assert keyword with no runtime cost in production
• Task::MemManager (CHRISARG) is a memory allocator for low level code
• Give ANSI colors to the screen output of sprintf with Term::ANSI::Sprintf (LNATION)

Language & International

• Locale::Unicode::Data (JDEGUEST) gives you access to Unicode CLDR data from an SQLite database

Science & Mathematics

• Bio::EnsEMBL (ABECKER) provides access to EnsEMBL genomic databases

Web

• Use Catalyst::Plugin::Profile::DBI::Log (BIGPRESH) to log database queries in your Catalyst routes with DBI::Log
• Use DBI-based sessions in Dancer2 with Dancer2::Session::DBI (EPISODEIV)
• Access OAI repositories in a web app with Plack::App::Catmandu::OAI (NJFRANCK)

Other

• Some categorization of CPAN distributions:
  • Acme::CPANModules::MultipleDispatch (PERLANCAR) for modules that do smart matching
  • Acme::CPANModules::UnixCommandVariants (PERLANCAR) for CLIs that are some variants of traditional Unix commands
• Map::Tube::Rome (GDT) is a Map::Tube extension for the Rome subway system