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Today we welcome Grant Street Group as MetaCPAN's newest sponsor. 🙏
"Grant Street Group® is an innovator of enterprise-scale software-as-a-service solutions for government entities. Our product suite includes tax calculation, billing, collection, and distribution; modern payment processing; and online auctions of fixed-income instruments and delinquent property taxes."
MetaCPAN was upgraded from Elasticsearch version 2 to version 8 this past Monday. As you can imagine, that's quite a jump. Many thanks to @haarg@mastodon.social for sorting out most of the compatibility issues on our API side.
If any of your queries have broken, please open an issue at https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-api/issues or ask in #metacpan on irc.perl.org
Many thanks to Philipp Krenn and Shay Banon of Elastic for their continued support. 🙏
As of today you'll notice a new sponsor logo slowly beginning to appear on MetaCPAN as the cache refreshes. Many thanks to IBAN. ♥️
"iban.com provides enterprise-grade Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for payment validation, Verification of Payee (VoP), and data retrieval, including comprehensive services for validating International Bank Account Numbers (IBAN), Bank Identifier Codes (BIC), and other global banking details. "
The Perl and Raku Conference 2026 is now official!
CPAN Testers has a new sponsor. ♥️
https://netactuate.com/blog/supporting-internet-critical-open-source-projects
perl 5, version 43, subversion 6 is now available: https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.43.6/
Deriv, an online trading company processing millions of transactions daily, continues to support the Perl ecosystem after 25 years of utilizing the language in their operations. Their core systems still run on Perl's stable architecture, while they actively maintain support for MetaCPAN and CPAN resources that benefit developers worldwide.
https://www.perl.com/article/why-deriv-supports-the-perl-ecosystem/
Many thanks to @freyfogle@mastodon.social and OpenCage GmbH for sponsoring this year's Perl Toolchain Summit. 🙏 ♥️
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/sponsoring-the-perl-toolchain-summit-2025
One day I hope to get my own MetaCPAN sticker.