[ANNOUNCEMENT] PEAR-1.4.8 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package PEAR-1.4.8 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- CRITICAL BUGFIX RELEASE Channels with "-" in their name were suddenly invalid, and caused crashes in many places due to improper error handling * fix Bug #6960: channels are not allowed to have "-" in their name * fix critical Bug #6969: PEAR list-upgrades crashes * fix Bug #6991: Class 'PEAR_PackageFile_v1' not found in Registry.php at line 1657 * fix Bug #7008: PEAR_Frontend::setFrontendObject doesn't set the object * fix Bug #7015: install a package.tgz with unknown channel, fatal error in PEAR/Registry.php * fix Bug #7020: tests/PEAR_Registry/api1_1/test_getChannelValidator.phpt crashes PEAR Package Info ------------- The PEAR package contains: * the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing and installing packages * the beta-quality PEAR_Exception PHP5 error handling mechanism * the beta-quality PEAR_ErrorStack advanced error handling mechanism * the PEAR_Error error handling mechanism * the OS_Guess class for retrieving info about the OS where PHP is running on * the System class for quick handling of common operations with files and directories * the PEAR base class New features in a nutshell: * full support for channels * pre-download dependency validation * new package.xml 2.0 format allows tremendous flexibility while maintaining BC * support for optional dependency groups and limited support for sub-packaging * robust dependency support * full dependency validation on uninstall * remote install for hosts with only ftp access - no more problems with restricted host installation * full support for mirroring * support for bundling several packages into a single tarball * support for static dependencies on a url-based package * support for custom file roles and installation tasks NOTE: users of PEAR_Frontend_Web/PEAR_Frontend_Gtk must upgrade their installations to the latest version, or PEAR will not upgrade properly Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR/download/1.4.8 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.4.8.tgz Authors ------------- Stig Bakken <stig@php.net> (lead) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (lead) Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> (helper) Pierre-Alain Joye (lead) Greg Beaver (lead) bertrand Gugger <bertrand@toggg.com> (helper) Tim Jackson (helper)