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PEAR 1.9.5 is out

The PEAR installer version 1.9.5 has been released today.

The new version – three years after the last stable 1.9.4 and 2 weeks after the preview – is a bugfix only release. 13 bugs have been fixed. Among them are the following:

• #18466: Modifying paths during installation broken on Windows
• #20203: PEAR channels on github user pages do not work
• #20283: Report correct php.ini directive on xdebug installation (and every other zend_extension)

Our plan is to work on a new version 1.10 that is E_STRICT and E_DEPRECATED clean and ships a couple of new features.

12th Jul 2014 07:48pm. Read more or see comments

PEAR 1.9.5dev1 released

I’ve just released a preview of the upcoming PEAR installer version 1.9.5: PEAR 1.9.5dev1.

Version 1.9.5 will be the first release of the PEAR installer since 3 years, and thus needs quite some testing before declaring it stable. Instead of using “RC1″, we opted for “dev1″ to keep the stability below alpha, so that upgrading normal packages in alpha/beta state do not automatically give you a potentially unstable PEAR version.

You can upgrade your existing PEAR version with the following command:
$ pear upgrade PEAR-1.9.5dev1

Pre-release versions of go-pear.phar and install-pear-nozlib.phar can be temporarily be found at

• http://pear.php.net/~cweiske/1.9.5/go-pear.phar
• http://pear.php.net/~cweiske/1.9.5/install-pear-nozlib.phar

Please report any bugs you find on the PEAR bug tracker or on the pear-dev mailing list.

27th Jun 2014 05:46pm. Read more or see comments

What would you do with 5 million lines of code?

Since October 2011, 5 million lines of the PEAR codebase has shifted to github.

Hand in hand with this shift has been the tireless work of Daniel C – someone who brazenly said “I will fix the failing packages!” in the tail end of last year.

Coupling his efforts with a call to arms, we’ve now seen an evaluation of the Known Good packages against PHP 5.4, and massive input by the community. The net result is as follows:

• Releases of Text_LanguageDetect, HTTP2, Net_Growl, Image_QRCode, Tree, HTML_BBCodeParser, Net_IMAP, Net_DNSBL, Services_Amazon, Image_Barcode2, Validate, Console_Color2, Services_ExchangeRates, Validate_DK, PEAR_PackageFileManager_Frontend, Text_Highlighter, PHP_Shell, Date, Image_Text, PEAR_Frontend_Gtk2, PHP_DocBlockGenerator, & Validate_AR through Dec/January
• All test infrastructure upgrading to PHP 5.4 release candidates
• All database driven test suites executing properly, catching a variety of simple bugs
• Just shy of 900 commit emails to the pear-cvs list for Dec/Jan – many containing multiple commits & fixes
• Hitting a point of “near zero” patches to be applied to unmaintained packages
• Applying no less than 30+ patches contributed by the community across all of PEAR
• Increasingly, the PEAR QA team is delivering PHP 5.3+ friendly forks of existing packages

I’d like to thank Daniel C for his efforts to date, as well as the contributors who may have previously lurked or found themselves distracted by other concerns.
Dec/Jan has been a great and vigorous period for the project – I heartily look forward to a great 2012.

24th Jan 2012 02:05pm. Read more or see comments