What's new on CPAN - March 2018

Apr 2, 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. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• App::diceware is a simple Diceware passphrase generator
• Google::ContentAPI provides an interface for Google’s Content API for Shopping
• Perl XS binding for the Duktape Javascript embeddable engine with JavaScript::Duktape::XS
• Get an HTTP Client for Firebase Cloud Messaging using WWW::FCM::HTTP

Config & Devops

• Bash::Completion::Plugins::Sqitch provides bash completion for Sqitch commands
• Font::FreeType can read font files and render glyphs from Perl using FreeType2
• Release::Checklist is a QA checklist for CPAN releases

Data

• A Perl interface to the Big List of Naughty Strings with Data::BLNS
• Create ICC profiles and use associated color functions using ICC::Profile
• Markua::Parser can parse Markua files for writing books
• Easily provide JSON-LD mark-up for your objects using MooX::Role::JSON_LD
• SkewHeap is a fast heap structure for Perl
• YAML::Dump is a simplified YAML dumper with boolean support

Development & Version Control

• AnyEvent::Connector provides tcp_connect á la AnyEvent::Socket with transparent proxy handling
• Caller::Easy provides a much nicer (than builtin) interface to the call stack
• List::Util::MaybeXS it’s List::Util but with a pure Perl fallback
• Create prototypes with Package::Prototype
• This Perl Critic policy checks for loops on hashes: Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitLoopOnHash
• Sys::Linux::Syscall::Execve provides a raw execve() wrapper that preserves memory addresses
• Test2::Tools::xUnit is a Perl xUnit framework built on Test2::Workflow

Other

• Control a typical stepper motor with the Raspberry Pi using RPi::StepperMotor
• Get IP address encryption for pseudo anonymization with Net::Address::IP::Cipher. Might be useful for GDPR compliance?

Web

• Get HTML validation via HTML::Tidy5 (the author’s intended replacement for HTML::Lint)
• Automatically reload open browser windows when your application changes using Mojolicious::Plugin::AutoReload
• Plack::Middleware::ServerTiming adds the Server-Timing header to HTTP responses
• RT::Authen::OAuth2 is another OAuth2 implementation