What's new on CPAN - December 2018

Jan 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

• Amazon::Credentials is an AWS credentials discoverer
• Migrate installed modules from one perl to another with App::MigrateModules
• CloudHealth::API is a REST API Client for the Cloud monitoring/management service
• Net::SecurityCenter provides a perly interface to Tenable SecurityCenter REST API

Data

• DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::TimePiece can autocreate Time::Piece objects from integer columns
• Database::Async is an early-release asynchronous database interface
• Lookup file extension descriptions with File::Extension
• Unicruft provides a Perl interface to libunicruft, the unicruft transliteration library

Development & Version Control

• Char::Replace implements naive XS character replacement as a faster alternative to substitution or transliteration
• Get a coordination channel implemented with Promises via Promises::Channel
• Test::Instance::DNS provides a local mock DNS server for testing

Science & Mathematics

• Algorithm::LUHN_XS implements an XS Version of Algorithm::LUHN
• MathML::itex2MML converts itex equations to MathML
• Statistics::Running::Tiny calculates basic descriptive statistics (min/max/skew/kurtosis etc) without storing the data points