| PEAR Announce 2007-01-23, 10:04 pm |
| The new PEAR package PEAR-1.5.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.
Release notes
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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::processInsta
llation() 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.g log.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
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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
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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
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Greg Beaver (lead)
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