#cpan

I've uploaded a new version of Plack-App-Prerender to #CPAN This is a #Plack #Perl application for a pre-rendering proxy using Chrome. This version fixes a potentially critical security issue, so if you use it, please upgrade ASAP. https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Plack-App-Prerender-v0.3.0

Catalyst::View::Wkhtnltopdf new version uploaded to #CPAN with documentation and bug fixes https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Catalyst-View-Wkhtmltopdf-v0.6.3 #Perl #Catalyst

I've taken over maintenance of Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf, and released a new version with a security fix, among other changes. This is a view that returns a PDF instead from a HTML template. https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Catalyst-View-Wkhtmltopdf-v0.6.0 Note that #wkhtmltopdf is no longer maintained. This module will soon be deprecated. #Perl #Catalyst #CPAN

Back in April the #Perl NOC turned off the #CPAN mail forwarding. https://log.perl.org/2026/04/cpanorg-email-forwarding-has-been-shut.html If you're like me, you've been using that for 25+ years, and it's everywhere (and unfortunately that includes spammer lists). Here's what you can do in the meantime, via @timlegge@mas.to @cpansec@fosstodon.orghttps://security.metacpan.org/2026/06/14/cpan.org-email-forwarding-shutdown.html

Perl/CPAN people, I haven't received any emails sent to or forwarded from my cpan.org email address for the last month. It seems to be affecting other users as well. Anyone know anything about this? #perl #cpan #perl

Belatedly realised that I have also used jmcnamara@cpan.org for 25+ years of open source contributions and I don’t want to change that (due to the cpan email address forwarding termination). Technically I don’t have to for GitHub style contributions but it wouldn’t work for kernel/mailing list style contributions. I am going backwards through the stages of grief on this one. #perl #cpan #perl

This Week in Security: Another Record Patch Tuesday, LAME is More Secure, Secure Boot is Less Secure, and Milk Malware https://hackaday.com/2026/07/17/this-week-in-security-another-record-patch-tuesday-lame-is-more-secure-secure-boot-is-less-secure-and-milk-malware/ #HackadayColumns #SecurityHacks #Apriltaskforce #Cocacola #Cpan #Dell #Fairlife #Gdid #Microsoft #PatchTuesday #Perl #SecureBoot #Security #Supplychain #ThisWeekinSecurity

Hm, did Data::Random got deleted from #CPAN? I have some failing build pipelines and metacpan does not list it anymore, only some dependencies. #Perl Anybody knows who can investigate this?