[ANNOUNCEMENT] PEAR-1.0b1 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package PEAR-1.0b1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- New Features, Installer: * new command: "pear makerpm" * new command: "pear search" * new command: "pear upgrade-all" * new command: "pear config-help" * new command: "pear sign" * Windows support for "pear build" (requires msdev) * new dependency type: "zend" * XML-RPC results may now be cached (see cache_dir and cache_ttl config) * HTTP proxy authorization support * install/upgrade install-root support Bugfixes, Installer: * fix for XML-RPC bug that made some remote commands fail * fix problems under Windows with DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR * lots of other minor fixes * --force option did not work for "pear install Package" * http downloader used "4.2.1" rather than "PHP/4.2.1" as user agent * bending over a little more to figure out how PHP is installed * "platform" file attribute was not included during "pear package" New Features, PEAR Library: * added PEAR::loadExtension($ext) * added PEAR::delExpect() * System::mkTemp() now cleans up at shutdown * defined PEAR_ZE2 constant (boolean) * added PEAR::throwError() with a simpler API than raiseError() Bugfixes, PEAR Library: * ZE2 compatibility fixes * use getenv() as fallback for $_ENV Package Info ------------- The PEAR package contains: * the PEAR base class * the PEAR_Error error handling mechanism * the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing and installing packages Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=PEAR Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=PEAR Download: http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.0b1.tgz Authors ------------- Stig Bakken <ssb@fast.no> (lead) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (developer) Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> (helper)