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This is a look at CPAN activity through the end of 2025, to see whether CPAN authoring is decreasing, increasing, or holding level.

If you're emailing the PAUSE admin alias (modules@perl.org), saying that you want to adopt a module / distribution, please Please PLEASE include your PAUSE id in your email.

This is a follow-up to last year's blog post, where I posted some charts to show how new CPAN users and distributions have changed over time.

In the CPAN Report on 2021 I noted that there has been a steady decline in the number of new authors, releasing authors, and releases, year-on-year, for the last 8 years.

This is a follow-up to last year's blog post, where I posted some charts to show how new CPAN users and distributions have changed over time.

PAUSE ran out of diskspace this weekend, so we're asking everyone to delete old releases from their author directory.

We often talk about "The Perl Community", but I don't think it exists.

Sometimes you want to optionally use a module in your code: if it's available, then load it, but if not, you can still proceed.

As part of the CPAN Report post I did recently, I looked at how recently distributions had their last release, and how that varied with the river position (number of dependent distributions).

CPAN was launched in 1995, so Perl developers have been sharing their code with each other for more than 25 years.