What's new on CPAN - November 2023

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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

Perform bit-wise search of data in a hexadecimal stream with App::Bin::Search
App::CPANStreaks displays various metrics of CPAN author’s module release streaks
App::FileFindUtils bundles command-line utilities related to finding files
App::MARC::Leader decodes the first field of a MARC record (Leader) from a file or string
App::randquote is a demo command-line app
Print lines matching a wildcard pattern App::wcgrep
Interact with the TrueLayer API using Business::TrueLayer
Aion::Query is a functional interface to the MySQL/MariaDB database

A few non-Perl dependencies you can now find and build with Alien: Serd RDF processor (Alien::Serd), Sord in-memory RDF store (Alien::Sord), hdt-cpp RDF binary format library (Alien::hdt_cpp), Zix C99 data structure library (Alien::zix)
CPAN::API::BuildPL documents the Build.PL API
A description of static CPAN installation, along with a reference implementation is provided in CPAN::Static
Automate various system administration tasks with Ixchel
CLI::Simple makes it easy to create scripts that take options, commands and arguments

Manage database handles safely for long running processes with Database::ManagedHandle
Create an ad hoc database which drops itself automatically with Database::Temp
File::Util::DirList consists of some file-related routines that involve lists of directories
File::Util::Sort has routines related to sorting files in one or more directories
File::Util::Symlink bundles some utilities related to symbolic links
A trio of releases for dealing with MARC Leader data: MARC::Leader, MARC::Leader::Print, Data::MARC::Leader
Export telemetry data using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) with OpenTelemetry::Exporter::OTLP
Build an ontology on CPAN infrastructure! Acme::Thing provides your base type
Lots of CPAN release data bundled this month into CPAN modules:
- Acme::CPANAuthors::InMostCPANAuthors lists authors that are listed most often in Acme::CPANAuthors::* modules
- Acme::CPANAuthorsBundle::CPAN::Streaks lists prolific authors in the midst of various kinds of release streaks
- Acme::CPANModules::CPANAuthors lists Acme::CPANAUthors::* modules
- Acme::CPANModules::SmartMatch lists modules that do smart matching
- Finally, a year’s worth of CPAN release data is aggregated in TableData::Perl::CPAN::Release::Static::2023, TableData::Perl::CPAN::Release::Static::2024

AnyEvent::KVStore::Etcd gives the AnyEvent::KVStore framework an Etcd distributed key-value store back-end
Bencher::Scenarios::Log::ger provides some scenarios for bench-marking Log::ger
Link to a Dist::Zola distribution’s shared files in the HTML documentation (in POD there’s currently no mechanism to do this) with the Dist::Zola::Plugin::InsertDistFileLink plugin
Object::PadX::Role::AutoJSON is an Object::Pad role that dynamically handles TO_JSON serialization
Automatically create nested Object::Pad objects with Object::PadX::Role::AutoMarshal
Check for known vulnerabilities before releasing to CPAN with Test::CVE
Test::Database::Temp provides a way to easily test several different databases with the same set of test data.
Aion::Telemetry measures the time the program runs between specified points
At implements Bluesky’s new AT social networking protocol
Mo::utils::Date provides date utilities for the Mo object system
Seq::Iter generates a coderef iterator from a sequence of items, the last of which can be a coderef to produce more items
New features for the SPVM language: SPVM::Go implements Go’s goroutines; SPVM::Thread implements native threads; SPVM::Time::HiRes implements High Resolution Time

Chipcard::PCSC allows your script to communicate with a smart card using the PC/SC specification

TextDoc::Examples provides a collection of dummy word processor files useful for testing or bench-marking purposes
Acme::CPANModules::Locale::ID provides a list of modules related to the Indonesian locale
Find out Indonesian color names and corresponding RGB values with Graphics::ColorNamesLite::ID
Locale::MaybeMaketext automatically figures out which Maketext library is available on the end-users platform

Dancer2::Plugin::JsonApi provides JSON:API helpers to Dancer2 apps
Create OpenAPI documentation of your Dancer2 application with Dancer2::Plugin::OpenAPI