What's new on CPAN - November 2016

Dec 8, 2016 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

• Use Google services via their API with API::Google
• Net::ACME provides client methods for the ACME protocol used by Let’s Encrypt
• Two new modules for interacting with Azure services: Net::Azure::EventHubs and Net::Azure::NotificationHubs
• Parse Lumberjack protocol frames with Net::Lumberjack
• AnyEvent::Mattermost is a non-blocking module for using the Mattermost API
• Get a non-blocking STOMP client using AnyEvent::Stomper
• WebService::Freesound is a wrapper for the Freesound OAuth2 API
• Get library data using the Lobid API with WebService::Lobid::Organisation
• Kayako::RestAPI provides a Perly interface to the Kayako API (customer service platform)

Config & Devops

• Alien::SwaggerUI installs Swagger to render OpenAPI-spec documentation
• Get a REST API for CPAN Testers data using CPAN::Testers::API
• Linux users: read and write /proc/$pid/maps files with Linux::Proc::Maps
• Proc::Memory let’s you peek/poke other processes’ address spaces
• Check the version numbers of Perl modules installed on remote servers using Server::Module::Comparison

Data

• Search emails in your inbox with Email::Folder::Search
• Graphics::GVG is a lexer/parser for Game Vector Graphics
• Edit animated JPEG files with Image::Animated::JPEG
• JSON::Repair recognizes illegal JSON and can repair it to strict compliance
• Easily generate XLSX spreadsheets from data with Spreadsheet::GenerateXLSX

Development & Version Control

• App::Environ easily build applications using service the locator pattern
• Get peer-to-peer messaging using BeamX::Peer::Emitter
• Bot::ChatBots is a base system for ChatBots
• Render management speak in IRC with Bot::IRC::X::ManagementSpeak
• Sanity-check the calling context using Call::Context
• Getopt::Kingpin is golang kingpin-style command line options parser
• Generate lists lazily with List::Lazy
• Convert rt.cpan.org tickets to GitHub issues using RTx::ToGitHub

Hardware

• Device::Chip::MCP4725 is a chip driver for MCP4725

Language & International

• Damianware! Code Perl in Latin using Lingua::Romana::Perligata (not strictly a new distribution, just a new version)

Web

• API::CLI is a framework for creating RESTful command line clients
• Run PerlScript/ASP on Catalyst with CatalystX::ASP
• Mojo::IOLoop::HoboProcess spawns subprocesses with MCE::Hobo
• Automatically rotate your Mojo app secrets using Mojolicious::Plugin::AutoSecrets

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.