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%
 | Uploads | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | | 2025 | 1,704 | 708 | 727 | 896 | 670 | 507 | 512 | 552 | | 2026 | 1,189 | 866 | 1,430 | 1,190 | 919 | 1,052 | 1,368 | 1,416 | | Change | -30.2% | +22.3% | +96.7% | +32.8% | +37.2% | +107.5% | +167.2% | +156.5% | The in-person side has been busy as well. The Perl ToolchainSummitmet in beautiful Vienna, Austria in April to work on the infrastructure everyone dependson and nobody sees. The Perl and RakuConference ran in Greenville, South Carolinain June, and the London Perl & Raku Workshop is comingup in the UK at the end of November. Perl 5.44 also shipped in July theannual stable release, succeeding 5.42 (odd versions like 5.41 and 5.43 beingdevelopment-only).It has been a good year, but there’s plenty still to do and we need your help to do it.If your organization is interested in becoming a TPRF donor, please reach outto me. I’d be more than happy to set up acall so that we can discuss how a donor relationship with TPRF canbenefit your organization.
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posted at: 12:00am on 12-Sep-2026
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