Thursday, August 31, 2017

TLS only for www.cpan.org

www.cpan.org has supported TLS since March. We're planning to make it TLS-only later in September, pending feedback. To start the process the homepage now redirects to the TLS version. Over the next days and weeks we'll make more and more of the URLs TLS-only.

Please let us know if this causes problems for common CPAN clients.

(IPv6 has also been re-enabled for www.cpan.org).

Monday, June 12, 2017

pm.org group hosting shutting down

As announced to the pm group leader mailing list, the pm.org group website hosting service is shutting down at the end of June 2017.  Sites will be maintained read-only for a period of time, but cannot be updated after that point.

Group leaders should contact pm.org support to point DNS to at an alternate hosting service if they wish to be able to edit their sites.

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Network Maintenance (May 14, 2017 - 05:00 UTC)

Our hosting facility (Phyber) is performing maintenance in order to upgrade their networking equipment.  This may result in some perl.org services being unavailable for the next few hours as hardware is forklifted.

Affected services may include:
  • perl.org email and mailing lists
  • pm.org email and mailing lists
  • rt.perl.org
  • rt.cpan.org
  • pause.perl.org
  • nntp.perl.org
  • some perl.org websites
  • search.cpan.org from some locations
  • (and others)
The new hardware sure looks pretty!


perl.org has a new look!

Thanks to Babs Veloso (@babsveloso) for her hard work on creating a fresh new look for the perl.org websites!  It's live now!

Thew new design is clean and responsive for a better experience on sizes and shapes of devices.  It brings the site up to date with current best practices for design and implementation.  We're very excited.  It's hard to believe it's been almost 8 years since we launched the previous look.

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Fast and secure Perl docs and CPAN modules with help from Fastly



We'd like to thank Fastly for hosting www.cpan.org and perldoc.perl.org on their world class global CDN. 

As of last week, the sites are also available using https://!

   So you can now securely read the Perl core documentation or download over 180,000 modules at lightning fast speeds.