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Today marks two years to the day since the first version of Dancer, micro web application framework for Perl hit CPAN!

Dancer has come a long way since then, thanks to the awesome community and user base built up around the project since then.

In these two years, Dancer had countless valuable contributions from a large list of contributing users, gathered over 300 watchers on GitHub, had 84 people fork the repository on GitHub, had 620 pull requests submitted... amazing stuff.

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Nice progress in the development of MetaCPAN

Olaf Alders provided his weekly report that was full of new items. You can now +1 Perl modules, use the public API of MetaCPAN and compete with other CPAN authors for fame.

Rakudo Star 2011.07 released with 10%-30% improvement in compile and execution speed

This edition of the quarterly release marks the end of era. The next release will be already using the New Object Model'.

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