[ANNOUNCEMENT] PEAR-1.4.9 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package PEAR-1.4.9 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- CRITICAL BUGFIX RELEASE users upgrading from PEAR 1.3.x cannot upgrade to 1.4.8 users who use --packagingroot may find that installation fails * fix Bug #7093: if pear channel does not exist, it cannot be retrieved * fix Bug #7165: warnings in pear * fix Bug #7075: PEAR_PackageFile_v2 :: setLogger failed on autodetection 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/1.4.9 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.4.9.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)