What's new on CPAN - April 2019

May 7, 2019 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

• App::optex::textconv compares .docx files by their text contents
• Get a mojo-based Redfish client with Mojo::Redfish::Client
• Checkpoint Management (change control) API version 1.x client - Net::Checkpoint::Management::v1
• OpenStack::MetaAPI provides a Perl5 OpenStack API abstraction on top of OpenStack::Client
• Paubox_Email_SDK provides an interface to the Paubox Transactional Email API

Data

• Algorithm::MinPerfHashTwoLevel construct a “two level” minimal perfect hash
• Get a fast Concise Binary Object Representation parser with a liberal license - CBOR::Free
• DBIx::Class::Events stores events for your DBIC results
• JSON::Pointer meets PadWalker in Devel::Optic
• File::TVShow::Organize moves TVShow Files into their matching Show Folder on a media server
• Geo::Index creates in-memory indices with fast searching capabilities

Development & Version Control

• Future::IO provides Future-returning IO methods
• IPC::ReadpipeX bypasses the shell with the list form of readpipe/qx/backticks for capturing output
• PerlIO::normalize provides a PerlIO layer to normalize unicode strings on input and output
• Get a web interface for viewing and inspecting yath test logs using Test2::Harness::UI

Web

• AnyEvent::HTTPD::Router adds routing to AnyEvent:HTTPD
• Use Furl, but wired to a PSGI app with Furl::PSGI
• Emit stats in your Mojo app with Mojolicious::Plugin::Statsd
• Mojolicious::Static::Role::Compressed serves pre-compressed versions of static assets
• Starwoman is a fork “because Starman does the same thing over and over again expecting different results” :-)
• Use the AWS s3 URI scheme with URI objects using URI::s3
• Yancy::Backend::Static can build a Yancy site from static Markdown files