Sereal is an efficient, compact-output, binary and feature-rich serialization protocol. The Perl encoder is implemented as the Sereal::Encoder module, the Perl decoder correspondingly as Sereal::Decoder. They are distributed separately to allow for safe upgrading without downtime. The encoder and decoder modules are available as these two ports: - converters/p5-Sereal-Encoder - converters/p5-Sereal-Decoder This port will install both of them.