PEAR 1.7 & Channels

Hello everyone, Due to some unforeseen problems in our our last release of PEAR (1.7.0) some people have noticed problems with external channels (phpunit, symfony and just about every single one of them) with the error "Error getting channel info from pear.phpunit.de: File http://pear.phpunit.de:80/Chiara_PEAR_Server_REST/p/packages.xml not valid (received: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request)" but fear not, we have fixed the problem and released a new PEAR that does not have this problem; What people have to do now is "pear upgrade pear" or pear upgrade-all ... If people pick the latter option then you'll see the previous error again but do note that PEAR will upgrade and thus that would be the last time you see the error. The only people that are really affected by this are people that have extra set of channels in their PEAR installation, the pear and pecl channel did continue to work just fine so I hope this was only a slight annoyance for most of you, we on the PEAR development team send out our sincerest apology for this hick up and hopefully we'll never encounter this problem again. Have a good weekend everyone. Regards Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson