Perl 🐪 Weekly #789 - The impact of LLMs on Perl

Originally published at Perl Weekly 789 Hi there, The videos from the German Perl Workshop are available. They look very interesting, but not surprisingly many of them are in German. As you go through the list when you encounter one that you'd want to see if it was in English, let me know! I'll contact the speakers and I'll ask if they would be interested giving an English version of their presentation through the online Perl Maven events . This, of course, reminds me that we are going to have such an online presentation today. The title is Async, Type-Safe, and Secure: Perl's Answer to FastAPI and the presenter is Mohammad Sajid Anwar, the other editor of this newsletter who also runs The Weekly Challenge and does a tons of other things. You can still register. Before the presentation begins we are going to have 30 minutes for mingling. That is, you'll have the opportunity to introduce yourself and build connections. On our events page you can find the full list of Perl-related events we are aware of. There are a few in-person events and a few online events. Enjoy your week! -- Your editor: Gabor Szabo. Articles CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year by Olaf Alders What is the impact of LLMs on the Open Source ecosystem in general and on Perl in patricular? Let's talk about our corner. DBI now has a minimum version of v5.12 AmberDB - An Embedded NoSQL Database Engine for Perl by Maruf Çetin AmberDB is a high-performance, schema-driven NoSQL database engine for Perl, featuring ACID transactions and precomputed inverted indexing on top of Berkeley DB (DB_File). AmberDB on MetaCPAN . Based on the AGENTS.md file it is being developed on MS Windows with the aid of LLMs. CVE-2026-18108: Net::SAML2 Authentication Bypass via Unsigned Encrypted Assertions (CVSS 9.8) Net::SAML2 provides SAML2 bindings and protocol implementation. This CVE along with a few others is already fixed . Discussion perl in cybersecurity? Should you learn Perl these days? What is the power of perl i