What's new on CPAN - December 2017

Jan 8, 2018 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. A full list of December’s new distributions can be found here. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• Get a simple time tracking app with App::Jiffy
• App::sdif provides a variety of diff tools
• Finance::Quote::IEX retrieves stock quotes using the IEX API
• Get financial market calendar data like holidays, late opens and early closes with Finance::Calendar
• GitLab::API::v4 is a complete GitLab API v4 client!
• Use ipinfo.io geolocation services via Geo::IPinfo
• Trade cryptocurrency securities using the Poloniex::API
• StreamFinder discover raw, streamable URLs from radio-station websites

Config & Devops

• Pre-process Apache configuration files using Apache::Config::Preproc
• Determine when ExtUtils::MakeMaker attributes are available with ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Attributes
• File::HomeDir::Tiny provides a minimalist, portable way to find your way $HOME

Data

• Get fast, C-based base91 encoding/decoding using Convert::Base91
• Data::Random::Flexible can generate different types of random values
• Image::JPEG::Size finds the size of JPEG images via libjpeg. See also https://metacpan.org/pod/Imager
• SVG::Timeline::Compact produces SVG timeline charts like https://metacpan.org/pod/SVG::Timeline with additional capabilities
• Struct::Diff::MergePatch can merge Perl data structures

Development & Version Control

• Get a Universal 2 Factor Auth test client with Authen::U2F::Tester
• Asynchronous job queue for IO::Async using Job::Async
• Code blocks which don’t exist unless you ask for them with Keyword::DEVELOPMENT
• Net::Async::ZMQ provides IO::Async support for ZeroMQ
• Convert PPI nodes into literal values using PPIx::Literal
• Test CPAN modules against Perl dev releases with Test::Against::Dev

Hardware

• Device::Modbus::ASCII provides Modbus ASCII communications for Perl
• Ham::Device::FT817COMM can control the Yaesu FT817 Ham Radio

Language & International

• Lingua::EN::Segment can split concatenated English-language words. Useful for domain names, etc

Science & Mathematics

• Bio::FastParsers can parse sequence comparison output files (BLAST, HMMER)
• Math::Bacovia is a symbolic math library with support for alternative representations
• Calculate lubricant characteristics using Tribology::Lubricant

Web

• Mojo::IOLoop::Thread is a threaded replacement for Mojo::IOLoop::subprocess for Win32
• Mojolicious::Plugin::LazyImage can lazy load images via JavaScript
• Get your IP address using checkip.amazonaws.com with WWW::Amazon::checkip