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[June 19, 2008] This year again, the PEAR community had to elect a president to lead the PEAR project thorough the year 2008 and 2009. David Coallier has accepted his role as the president of the project and became Greg Beaver's successor.

You can see the result of the election "at the election page" or reach him at all times at president@pear.php.net

[June 19, 2008] For the second year the elections are now over and a new PEAR Group has been formed. Just like last year and always following the Constitution, the new members have been elected by a secret ballot of PEAR Developers. They have chosen:

Joshua Eichorn
Helgi Þormar Þorbjornsson
Joe Stump
Christian Weiske
Chuck Burgess
Travis Swicegood
Brett Bieber

You can see more information about the PEAR Group by clicking here

[June 5, 2008]
It this time of the year, the election for the PEAR group of 2008 - 2009 has begun as well as for president of the same time period, please head over to the election page and cast your vote on the people you want to be at the helm of PEAR.

[January 3, 2008]
As promised, XML-RPC has been disabled at pear.php.net. Information is now served via REST files at pear.php.net/rest. If you are using a PEAR version earlier than 1.4.0, you will need to manually upgrade PEAR using direct URLs. To upgrade to the latest PEAR, you can either use go-pear (http://pear.php.net/go-pear) or upgrade using direct URLs:

   pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/Archive_Tar http://pear.php.net/get/XML_Parser http://pear.php.net/get/Console_Getopt-1.2.2
   pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.3.3 (_IF_ your existing version is older than 1.3.3)
   pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.4.3.tar
   pear upgrade PEAR

[October 19, 2007]
Following the tradition of internet culture, PEAR now channels blogs about PEAR. See it at Planet PEAR.

[June 20, 2007]
PEAR is greatly saddened by the loss of developer Bertrand Gugger to a heart attack on June 16. More information is available on the official PEAR blog at This entry.

[June 1, 2007]
Welcome to the 7th and final member of the PEAR Group, Paul M. Jones! The newly elected PEAR Group and PEAR president have already begun work. The PEAR President is Gregory Beaver, and the PEAR Group is Martin Jansen, David Coallier, Arnaud Limbourg, Joshua Eichorn, Christian Weiske, Helgi Þormar, and Paul M. Jones. Official results of the run-off election are here. The Constitution documents the governing structure of PEAR.

[May 8, 2007]
A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in the PEAR Installer that affects all released versions. PEAR version 1.5.4 has been released to address this security issue. Further details are available here.

[February 1, 2007]
As of January 1, 2008, PEAR will be dropping support for PEAR versions 1.3.6 and earlier. If you are using PEAR 1.3.6 or earlier, we strongly encourage you to upgrade using these simple steps:

    pear upgrade --force PEAR-1.3.6 Archive_Tar-1.3.1 Console_Getopt-1.2
    pear upgrade --force PEAR-1.4.11
    pear upgrade PEAR

The full story on what has changed, and what will change is here.