What's new on CPAN - January 2025

Feb 20, 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

App::rhich (BRIANDFOY) is like the which Unix command, but takes a regex as argument
Extract the URLs in a web page with App::grepurl (BRIANDFOY)
Control a VirtualBox with App::VirtualBoxUtils (PERLANCAR)
Monitor the progress of your module through the PAUSE process using PAUSEx::Log (BDFOY)
Authenticate over the OpenID Connect protocol with OIDC::Client (SMOURLHOU)
Get Deutsche Bahn departure info using Travel::Status::DE::DBRIS (DERF)

Read configuration files from various sources with Advanced::Config (CLEACH)
Getopt::EX::Config (UTASHIRO) provides another way to define configuration information for Getopt::EX modules

Extract the parts of a fully qualified domain name (subdomain, domain, TLD) with Net::Domain::Parts (STEVEB)
DateTime::Format::RelativeTime (JDEGUEST) implements the Web platform’s Intl.RelativeTimeFormat class for relative time formatting of DateTime objects

Create a tied scalar that forgets its value after a specified interval with Tie::Timely (BRIANDFOY)
Scalar::Dynamizer (EPIXOIP) lets you create dynamic scalar variables whose values are recomputed every time they are accessed
Streamline your tests through mocking, spying and dependency injection with Test::Mockingbird (NHORNE)
Test Type::Tiny type constraints against Test2::Suite with Test2::Tools::TypeTiny (GSG)
Convert HTML to Markdown using Text::HTML::Turndown (CORION)
Get Perl core’s File::stat timestamps with the highest possible precision using File::stat2 (PHILOU)
Measure in-process execution time for precise benchmarking with Linux::libperf::Simple (TONYC), a wrapper for the libperf library

Calculate Krippendorff’s alpha coefficient with Statistics::Krippendorff (CHOROBA)
Crypt::Komihash (BAKERSCOT) converts strings into 64-bit integers using the Komihash hashing algorithm
Re-arrange a Math::Symbolic expression into a product of factors with Math::Symbolic::Custom::Factor (MJOHNSON)
Procure cryptographically random data from your system using Crypt::SysRandom (LEONT)

Convert sheet music into harmonica tabulatures with Music::Harmonica::TabsCreator (MATHIAS)
Colouring::In::XS (LNATION) implements Colouring::In color conversion routines in C
Decode aviation-related weather code strings into English using Geo::METARTAF (PCARTER)
Map IP addresses to country and city names with Geo::Location::IP (VOEGELAS), an object-oriented wrapper for IP::Geolocation::MMDB

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