Sat, 12 Sep 2026

HeroDevs Donates $10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation
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The Perl and Raku Foundation is delighted to announce that HeroDevs has donated $10,000 to support our work. We’re grateful for their generosity gifts like this go directly toward the people and infrastructure that keep Perl and CPAN healthy.HeroDevs provides long-term security and support for open source software that has reached its end of life.As we continue to see support from community members and corporate sponsors,2026 has been shaping up to be a genuinely good year for Perl and CPAN.The CPAN Security Grouphas been very busy with security research, publishing CVEs and patching some of theexploits which they have found.Alpha-Omega funded thatwork,which was a solid vote of confidence in the ecosystem. The CPAN Security Group is also workingwith other packaging ecosystems to learn from their experiences fighting thesame battles. This is the kind of work that cannot be done solely byvolunteers. We would like to see it funded on an ongoing basis.Meanwhile, the ecosystem itself is growing. Comparing January to August 2026against the same period in2025,we can see significant growth in CPAN across multiple metrics. The first-timereleaser number is particularly encouraging. It’s great to see people decidingto publish on CPAN for the first time.

• First-time releasers: 31 to 54, up 74%
• New distributions: 464 to 1,007, more than double
• Uploads: 6,276 to 9,430, up 50% already past last year’s full-year total with four months to go
• Distinct authors releasing: 489 to 546, up 12%

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