<h2>News</h2>

<dl>
<dt>2006-09-28: Cronjob</dt>
<dd>I finally managed to set up a working cronjob for CPANTS. You can expect new data each day around 02:45 EDT. Only newly uploaded dists will be checked daily. I will only do a full run (which takes some hours) if there's a change to the metrics.</dd>

<dt>2006-09-26: Revamped Website</dt>
<dd>Thanks to the incredibly helpful <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~bricas/">Brian Cassidy</a> the site is now working much better than before. He submitted several patches that cleaned up my horrible Catalyst code in Module::CPANTS::Site.</dd>

<dt>2006-09-13: has_license</dt>
<dd>A new metric, implemented by <a href="http://www.szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a>, has_license checks if there is a license specified in META.yml. This metric will be soon enhances to also look in other places for a license.</dt>

<dt>2006-09-05: New metrics</dt>
<dd>During YAPC::Europe 2007 I did a small CPANTS hackathon, which resulted in several new metrics: manifest_matches_dist, buildtool_not_executable and has_exampel (which is an optional metric).<br>
I also changed the authors page a bit so: optional metrics are now clearly marked as such.
</dd>

<dt>2006-07-19</dt>
<dd>
Added News section<br>
New metric: <code>has_working_buildtool</code>. Thanks to <a href="http://steffen-mueller.net">Steffen Müller</a> for suggesting & implementing it!
Re-indexed the whole of CPAN.
</dd>
<dt>2006-07-18</dt>
<dd>
Added support for optional metrics (eg <code>is_prereq</code>).<br>
Changed Kwalitee from absolut to relative values (i.e. percentages)<br>
Changed ranking in CPANTS game to only use non-optional metrics. Now releasing a new distribution (which fulfills all core metrics) won't lower owns rank.
</dd>
</dl>

