What's new on CPAN - October 2018

Nov 7, 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

• Send Avro messages to Apache Kafka with Kafka::Producer::Avro
• Authenticate with the Azure Active Directory via Azure::AD::Auth
• Query the “BackPAN” by PAUSEID via App::Search::BackPAN
• Net::Google::Drive is a simple client for Google Drive
• WebService::Google::Client is a server-side client library for every (!) Google App API, forked from Moo::Google
• WebService::Mattermost is an SDK for Mattermost (an Open Source Slack clone)

Config & Devops

• Write installed module versions back to a cpanfile using App::CpanfileSlipstop
• DBIx::LogProfile can log DBI::Profile data into Log::Any or Log4perl
• Get Pyzor spam filtering in Perl using Mail::Pyzor

Data

• Calculate and verify Subresource Integrity hashes (SRI) with Digest::SRI
• Create JSON Patch (RFC6902) for Perl data with JSON::Patch
• JSON::Transform provides a DSL for transforming JSON compatible data structures
• Verify Perl Data Language piddles with the new Test2 framework using Test2::Tools::PDL

Development & Version Control

• Catmandu::I18N provides tools for text localisation
• Game::Collisions is a fast, 2D collision detector
• Override Perl file check ops using Overload::FileCheck
• library for looking up MTA-STS policies (RFC8461) with Mail::STS
• Make async calls to Consul using Net::Async::Consul
• Net::Prometheus::PerlCollector can provide statistics about the Perl interpreter

Web

• Dancer2::Session::CHI stores session data in CHI-based backends
• Wait for the results of a Mojo::Promise with Mojo::Promise::Role::Get
• WWW::Google::Login log a mechanize object into Google, via screen scraping