• 2014.09.23 in #166 A pre-release of Pod::Readme is available on CPAN
  Potentially interesting for CPAN authors: Robert Rothenberg's POD-to-README generator now has a pre-release available on CPAN.
• 2014.12.06 in #176 Pod::Readme can now be used with Dist::Zilla
  Robert Rothenberg has released a new version of Pod::Readme which has hooks for working with Dist::Zilla. This means your pod can now include sections just for inclusion in the README, for example.
• 2019.02.19 in #396 Lexical readonly state variables with PerlX::Let
  Robert recently released PerlX::Let introducing new keword "let", read further to find out more.
• 2025.01.05 in #702 Add a security policy to your distributions
  If you are CPAN module author then you must give it a thought next time you upload a change or new distribution.
• 2025.05.20 in #722 Testing distributions for potentially malicious Unicode
  Unicode itself is a complext subject and then when you have to deal with similar looking characters can be tricky.
• 2025.06.06 in #724 Are you still using the 2-argument open?
  It's well documented suggestion to always use 3-argument open function. This post shares the reason.
• 2025.07.28 in #732 Is it still worth adding installation instructions to a distribution?
  This post is a thoughtful prompt for Perl developers maintaining CPAN modules.
• 2026.05.04 in #772 Ideas for the CPAN Meta v3 Specification
  Improvements to how developers will be able to manage their dependencies and the tools that they use for building them is the goal of several forward-thinking updates proposed by Robert Rothenberg to the CPAN Meta Spec v3. His blog post includes recommendations for enhancements to provide developers with standardised, enhanced requirements for their "develop" phase, as well as improved ways to specify what hardware or operating system a developer's distribution requires to successfully run.

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