What's new on CPAN - June 2018

Jul 4, 2018 by David Farrell

It’s the Fourth of July holiday here in the US, so this month’s cover image has been given a USA-style makeover. Below you’ll find my curated list of June’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• Grep Microsoft Office documents with App::Greple::msdoc
• App::JC::Client is a small command line client for JIRA
• App::ReportPrereqs prints a nicely formatted report on distribution / project dependencies using the cpanfile
• AWS::XRay provides an interface to the request tracing service
• Email::SendGrid::V3 is a class for emailing via the SendGrid v3 Web API
• A base class for Mattermost bots: Net::Mattermost::Bot
• Access OpenGL prototyping tools using OpenGL::Sandbox
• Use the You Need A Budget API with WWW::YNAB

Config & Devops

• Extract the version of Perl a module declares with Module::Extract::DeclaredVersion
• Get module permissions from MetaCPAN API using PAUSE::Permissions::MetaCPAN

Data

• Elasticsearch::Model is a replacement for ElasticSearchX::Model that works with Elasticsearch v6+
• Finance::AMEX::Transaction parses AMEX transaction files: EPRAW, EPPRC, EPTRN, CBNOT, GRRCN

Development & Version Control

• Devel::CallParser has been patched to fix RT#110623 as an alt distribution: Alt::Devel::CallParser::ButWorking
• Class::XSConstructor is a wow-fast (but limited) constructor in XS, See also MooX::XSConstructor
• Embed Tiny C code in your Perl program using FFI::TinyCC::Inline
• Perl::Critic::TooMuchCode provides critic policies for unused imports, constants and other detritus

Hardware

• Wow, get a Perl interface to the Gameboy Advance with Device::GBA
• Manage and monitor the Synaccess NP-05B networked power strip with Device::Power::Synaccess::NP05B. See also App::np05bctl
• Control a FeelTech FY32xx signal generator using Electronics::SigGen::FY3200
• Net::TL1UDP provides a Transaction Language 1 (TL-1) UDP interface
• RPi::GPIOExpander::MCP23017 interface with the MCP23017 GPIO Expander Integrated Circuit over I2C

Web

• Dancer2::Plugin::Showterm is a Dancer2 port of showterm
• MojoX::ConfigAppStart can start Mojo apps using Config::App