| PEAR Announce 2008-02-03, 7:15 pm |
| The new PEAR package PEAR-1.7.1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.
Release notes
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fixed since 1.7.0
* fix bug #13030: Port not set for REST HTTP requests [timj]
* fix bug #13029: Duplicate Host headers set when requesting REST data [timj]
* fix bug #13047: PEAR fails to install *any* package [timj]
Known bugs to be fixed in version 1.7.2:
- Bug #12945 PEAR_Registry::setConfig() does not set install path
- Bug #12959 PEAR should give warning when doing "special" handling with cfg role
- Bug #12960 role=cfg should automatically replace file if it has not been modified
- Bug #13031 PEAR fails to authenticate when doing upgrade-all on non-default channel
- Bug #13033 Signature to PEAR_REST_XX::listAll() changes between REST1.0 and 1.1
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
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
Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR/download/1.7.1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PEAR-1.7.1.tgz
Authors
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Greg Beaver (lead)
Tias Guns (developer)
Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <dufuz@php.net> (developer)
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