What's new on CPAN - June 2020

Jul 29, 2020 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::Timestamper::WithElapsed for every line of STDIN displays a timestamp and the elapsed seconds since the last line
• Get a command line client for cPanel UAPI and API 2 using App::cpanel
• Introspect C/C++ code with CastXML Clang::CastXML
• OpenTelemetry supports application process monitoring as defined by opentelemetry.io
• OpenTracing::Interface defines an API for opentracing (precursor to opentelemetry)
• Send SMS via VoIP.ms with SMS::Send::VoIP::MS

Config & Devops

• App::PP::Autolink can create standalone Perl executables, finding dynamic libs automatically
• Get a simple interface for creating and verifying One Time Passwords as used by authenticator apps with Authen::TOTP
• Guacamole is a parser toolkit for Standard Perl - also see Sawyer X’s recent talk
• Neo4j::Client helps configure and build the C based neo4j-client library
• Create and verify password hashes for OpenSMTPD using OpenSMTPD::Password

Data

• Quickly extract raw values from Excel XLSX spreadsheets with Excel::ValueReader::XLSX
• SkewHeap::PP is a fast and flexible heap structure
• Text::Mrkdwn::Escape can escape text for inclusion in the markdown variant used by Slack
• Perform HTTP Encrypted Content Encoding (AES 128-bit Galois/Counter Mode) with Crypt::RFC8188

Development & Version Control

• Analyze/Rename/Track Perl source code, includes a vim plugin: Code::ART
• Future::Buffer implements a Futures-based string buffer
• Mojolicious::Command::Author::generate::cpanfile creates a cpanfile by scanning your source code for dependencies
• Sys::Pipe provides access to the non-blocking pipe2() system call
• Get fast and minimal code coverage stats using Test2::Plugin::Cover

Hardware

• Get a chip driver for Noritake GU-D display modules using Device::Chip::NoritakeGU_D
• PINE64::MCP300x provides an interface to the MCP300x family of 10-bit analog to digital converters
• PINE64::MCP3208 provides an interface to the MCP3208 12-bit SPI analog to digital converters

Language & International

• Getopt::EX::i18n sets the environment locale via a command line option
• Translate::Fluent is a Perl implementation of the Mozilla localization project to create more natural-sounding translations