[ANNOUNCEMENT] PEAR-1.5.0 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package PEAR-1.5.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- Minor feature addition release The following bugs in 1.5.0RC3 were fixed: * fix Bug #7941: Bogus error message when uninstalling subpackages * fix Bug #9761: $php_errormsg not being filled properly * fix Bug #9763: Upgrading PECL packages fails when chmoding .so * fix Bug #9791: Warning: Wrong parameter count for array_key_exists() in PEAR/Builder.php on li * fix Bug #9824: pear install Structures_DataGrid#renderers recursion crash * fix Bug #9825: install 2 opt groups leaves duplicate parent package New features since 1.4.11: * implement Request #3436: implement staticPop [PEAR_Error_Stack] * implement Request #6396: add extension enabling in php.ini for 1.5.0 * implement Request #6614: use go-pear style dialogs in PEAR_Command_CLI by default * implement Request #6702: implement TAP output option for run-tests command (as defined by http://perldoc.perl.org/Test/Harness/TAP.html) * implement Request #7090: PEAR_Downloader mustn't contact pear server when installing local package file * implement Request #7220: recognize deprecated package/channel and display to user * implement Request #7352: add a README and an INSTALL by pear * implement Request #7910: "Last Installed Version" should be "Previous Installed Version" * implement Request #7912: PEAR_Exception detect PEAR_Error as $message in __construct() * implement Request #8779: add package.xml 2.1 support for zend extensions * implement Request #8827: add a yesno type handling for post-install scripts * Structures_Graph is now a required dependency (1.0.2 or newer) for sorting of dependencies upon installation * update Archive_Tar recommended version to 1.3.2 * update Console_Getopt recommended version to 1.2.1 Bugs fixed since 1.4.11: * fix Bug #6788: backtrace memory leak * fix Bug #6931: pear upgrade PEAR-alpha tries to upgrade to 1.4.0a12 * fix Bug #7021: Everything must be within <dir name="/"> * fix Bug #7196: PEAR crashes when using autoload_prepend_file * fix Bug #7203: pecl install <name> does not use the correct ext_dir * fix Bug #7207: proxy user/pass is not urldecoded in download * fix Bug #7219: bogus "will download PEAR 1.4.8" error * fix Bug #7221: pear install blah-alpha won't install a newer stable * fix Bug #7351: setting custom config variable in a channel fails * fix Bug #7368: undefined function: getProvidesextension() * fix Bug #7385: if post-install script or extension are present and --packagingroot, fatal erro * fix Bug #7419: Check inputs in PEAR_PackageFile_v2_rw * fix Bug #7464: run-scripts causes notices * fix Bug #7539: if a file has both install-as and ignore notices * fix Bug #7726: <uri> dependency is broken * fix Bug #7896: can't download packages, neither from cli or from web page. * fix Bug #7931: hasErrors() with an error level has returned true after invoking pop(). * fix Bug #7940: pear download fails silently * fix Bug #8254: downloading doesn't work with 302 messages * fix Bug #8383: No exit code on errors * fix Bug #8384: PEAR_PackageFile doesn't include error messages from Archive_Tar * fix Bug #8516: PEAR_Config->get('preferred_mirror', null, 'non-pear.channel') returns pear * fix Bug #8617: pear download prints (-1 bytes) if no content-length has been sent (Bjori, Pierre) * fix Bug #8620: typo error in PEAR_PackageFile_v2::getConfigureOptions() * fix Bug #8622: PFM2 - wrong php exclude version is not detected * fix Bug #8519: typo in PEAR/Start.php OS_WINDOWS not WINDOWS * fix Bug #8553: PEAR_Installer_Role_Common::processInstallation() does not honor layer * fix Bug #8571: Sparse error message in registry * fix Bug #8788: fatal error in Installer.php when task is not found * fix Bug #8794: upgrade-all including Auth fails with fatal error * fix Bug #9101: PEAR_Exception::getCauseMessage() failure with a nested Exception (Adam Harvey) * fix Bug #9135: pear bundle fails if php_dir is not writeable * fix Bug #9182: can't add versioning to conflicting deps in PEAR_PF_v2_rw * fix Bug #9206: PEAR package info is not retrieved correctly for package with single release * fix Bug #9208: Typo error on abstract PEAR_Task_Common::validXml() method * fix Bug #9280: cannot install with --packagingroot package from non-php.net channel * fix Bug #9307: Validator generates warning on empty <contents> tag * fix Bug #9355: Bug in GLIBC detection (OS/Guess.php), patch proposal * fix Bug #9551: listing packages in pear.geeklog.net fails * fix Bug #9660: dependency sorting on installation does not always work * fix Bug #9688: [PATCH] Fix build of PECL extensions * fix Bug #9695: sgl-list-all command problem * fix Bug #9712: pear uninstall --register-only remove file : it should not * fix Bug #9757: pear does not validate -d input (pear -d php_dir=whatever command) * fix shell-test command with invalid usage (noticed by Christian Weiske) * fix notice when running "pear sign" (noticed by Christian Weiske) Package Info ------------ The PEAR package contains: * the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing and installing packages * the PEAR_Exception PHP5 error handling mechanism * the 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/1.5.0 Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PEAR-1.5.0.tgz Authors ------- Greg Beaver (lead)