DuckDuckGo has made a second $25,000 USD donation to The Perl and Raku Foundation. This is tremendous news, and will help to continue to fund development of Perl. From TPRF President Stuart J Mackintosh:

DuckDuckGo has demonstrated how Perl and its ecosystem can deliver power and scale to drive the DuckDuckGo core systems, plug-in framework and Instant Answers. The Foundation is grateful that DuckDuckGo recognises the importance of Perl, and for their generous funding support for a second year through their charitable donations programme.

SUSE has recently made a big donation to the Core Maintenance Fund for Perl 5:

The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) is thrilled to announce a substantial $11,500 donation from SUSE, one of the world’s leading enterprise Linux and cloud-native and AI solutions providers. This generous contribution bolsters the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund and demonstrates SUSE’s commitment to the open-source ecosystem.

Good to see.

See full details at perl.com

https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/

I'm speechless.

This is a hybrid (in-person and virtual) conference being held in Austin, TX on July 3rd-4th.

Did you miss your chance to speak or wish to speak at the only available Perl Science Track (and get published in the Science Perl Journal)? Or maybe you just can't get enough Perl this summer??? Read on ...

The following lengths will be accepted for publication and presentation:

• Science Perl Track: Full-length paper (10-36 pages, 50-minute speaker slot)
• Science Perl Track: Short paper (2-9 pages, 20-minute speaker slot)
• Science Perl Track: Extended Abstract (1 page, 5-minute lightning talk slot)
• Normal Perl Track (45-minute speaker slot, no paper required)

Don’t wait! Submit a paper or talk today. All published authors will be presenting their papers at this hybrid (in-person and virtual) 2-day conference being held on July 3-4, 2025 in Austin, TX; and attendance will be free for everyone, but you must be registered and donations are kindly appreciated.

Olaf Alders arranged to have Dave Cross come speak at a meeting of the Toronto Perl Mongers recently, and the video has now been posted on the TPRF channel. Here's the link to the Youtube video: link

Update: Made the URL into a link. And how long have you been visiting this site? Goof.

Years ago, a few people decided during the Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) that it would be a good idea to join forces, ideas and knowledge and start a group to monitor vulnerabilities in the complete perl ecosystem form core to the smallest CPAN release. The goal was to follow legislation and CVE reports, and help authors in taking actions on not being vulnerable anymore.

That group has grown stable over the past years and is now known as CPANSec

The group has several focus areas, and one of them is channeling CVE vulnerability issues.

In that specific goal, a milestone has been reached:

CPANSec has just been authorized as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for Perl and modules on CPAN 📣🎉🥳👌

The CPAN Security Group was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) on Feb 25, 2025. A CNA assigns and manages CVE identifiers for projects in their scope.

Our scope is vulnerabilities in Perl and CPAN Modules (including End-of-Life Perl versions) found at perl.org, cpan.org or metacpan.org, excluding distributions of Perl or CPAN Modules maintained by third-party redistributors.

CVE is an international, community-based effort to identify, define and catalog publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities. To learn more about the CVE program, visit www.cve.org.

Report Vulnerability

Vulnerabilities should be reported according to the security policy of the affected project.

For more details, see our guide on how to Report a Security Issue in Perl and the CPAN ecosystem.

Contact Us

To request a CVE identifier, or to update a CVE we have issued, please send an email to cve-request@security.metacpan.org.

Subscribe to the cve-announce mailing list to be notified of new CVEs published by us.

For questions, disputes or other CNA related queries please use cna@security.metacpan.org. Disputes are handled according to the CNA rules.

Links

• CVE.org: CPAN Security Group added as CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
• CVE.org: Partner Information - CPAN Security Group
• CVE.org: CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) Operational Rules
• Report Security Issue
• cve-announce mailing list
• CNA Disclosure Policy

• https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97925 has been fixed: now anova_rptd works with mixed-model designs
• There's now a demo at https://pdl.perl.org/?page=demos/stats
• The plotting functions now use PDL::Graphics::Simple (which facilitates generating the above)
• The plotting functions have also had a tidy-up, and now include plotting categorical anova data with stripcharts
• It uses the new PDL 2.096+ "lib/*.pd" format so it builds quicker

Proposed Perl Changes, by Dave Cross — essentially a high-level snapshot for those of us not involved in the nitty-gritty.

Olaf Alders arranged to have Randal Schwartz come speak at a meeting of the Toronto Perl Mongers recently, and the video has now been posted on the TPRF channel. I've heard some of this history before, but it was really interesting to hear it directly from Randal.

DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation.

DuckDuckGo Growth

Today, on “Giving Tuesday”, The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) is extremely pleased to announce a donation of $25,000 from DuckDuckGo. Since 2011, DuckDuckGo has donated over 6 million dollars to organizations that align with their “vision of raising the standard of trust online”.

There are a couple of episodes beyond today's (the 1st) up already, so you can binge it if you like. Or, you can keep your cool and just read one per day. I won't tell you how to best enjoy it!

Comments welcome.