Discussion :

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Net_Nmap-1.0.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
- Removed the @access tags not necessary in PHP5

Package Info
------------
Net_Nmap is a simple interface for Nmap,
the free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing.

Net_Nmap can be used to auto discovery hosts and services in your network or simply to parse Nmap XML output.

Note:
Requires a Nmap installation on your system.
Nmap is available from http://nmap.org/

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Nmap
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Nmap/download/1.0.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_Nmap-1.0.0.tgz

Authors
-------
Luca Corbo (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Net_LDAP2-2.0.0RC4 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Net_LDAP2_Filter::create*() methods are declared static now
* Net_LDAP2 is able to reconnect now in case link is down during operation (thanks Del)
* Complex updates fail: under some circumstances, $entry->update() will fail. This is
caused by mandatory attributes set and the internal behaviour of Net_LDAP2. A
workaround is documented in the code and in the user manual.
* Bugfixes in Dels patches. Soemtimes there where endless loops and deleting entries
did not always succeed.
* Bugfix to reset unicodePwd (Active Directory): a new $force parameter was introduced to Net_LDAP2_Entry->replace()
that forces "replace" mode. If not set and attribute is empty (or could not be read like in the AD case)
replace() resulted in Net_LDAP2 thinking it should add the attribute. This can now be overriden.
* Bugfix in unit tests: the Net_LDAP2Test suite had huge memory consumtion caused by a little error in
Net_LDAP2->checkLDAPExtension(). If that method is called before any Net_LDAP class was instanciated, a PEAR
error is returned instead of the documented Net_LDAP2_Error which causes the unit test to plot out very much
debug information.

Package Info
------------
Net_LDAP2 is the successor of Net_LDAP which is a clone of Perls Net::LDAP
object interface to directory servers. It does contain most of Net::LDAPs
features but has some own too.
With Net_LDAP2 you have:
* A simple object-oriented interface to connections, searches entries and filters.
* Support for tls and ldap v3.
* Simple modification, deletion and creation of ldap entries.
* Support for schema handling.

Net_LDAP2 layers itself on top of PHP's existing ldap extensions.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP2
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP2/download/2.0.0RC4
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...2-2.0.0RC4.tgz

Authors
-------
Benedikt Hallinger <beni@php.net> (lead)

The new PEAR package HTTP_Client-1.2.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Proper dependencies' versions
* Implemented put() and delete() methods (request #2073 and numerous others)
* Implemented methods to iterate over the responses (see request #12322)
* Perform GET request when redirecting via <meta> tag after POST (bug #13487)
* Handle the case of quoted redirect url in <meta> tag (bug #13903)

Package Info
------------
The HTTP_Client class wraps around HTTP_Request and provides a higher level interface
for performing multiple HTTP requests.

Features:
* Manages cookies and referrers between requests
* Handles HTTP redirection
* Has methods to set default headers and request parameters
* Implements the Subject-Observer design pattern: the base class sends
events to listeners that do the response processing.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Client
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Client/download/1.2.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...ient-1.2.0.tgz

Authors
-------
Alexey Borzov (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package PEAR_Info-1.9.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* news
- implement request #13741 : show list if potential config files
see my comment of 2008-10-12 15:58 UTC for more details and usage examples

- implement request #14543 : Beautify output with some additional links

Package Info
------------
This package generates a comprehensive information page for your current PEAR install.
* The format for the page is similar to that for phpinfo() except using PEAR colors.
* Has complete PEAR Credits (based on the packages you have installed).
* Will show if there is a newer version than the one presently installed (and what its state is)
* Each package has an anchor in the form pkg_PackageName - where PackageName is a case-sensitive PEAR package name

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR_Info
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR_Info/download/1.9.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...Info-1.9.0.tgz

Authors
-------
Florian Anderiasch <fa@php.net> (lead)
Laurent Laville <pear@laurent-laville.org> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Console_Table-1.1.3 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
Add option to render data with ANSI color codes (Igor Feghali, Request #14835).

Package Info
------------
Provides methods such as addRow(), insertRow(), addCol() etc. to build console tables with or without headers and with user defined table rules and padding.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Table
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Console_...download/1.1.3
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...able-1.1.3.tgz

Authors
-------
Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Net_LDAP-1.1.3 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Fixed a little issue with repetive adding the same attribute value (backported from Net_LDAP2)

Package Info
------------
Net_LDAP is a clone of Perls Net::LDAP object interface to
directory servers. It does contain most of Net::LDAPs features
but has some own too.
With Net_LDAP you have:
* A simple object-oriented interface to connections, searches entries and filters.
* Support for tls and ldap v3.
* Simple modification, deletion and creation of ldap entries.
* Support for schema handling.

Net_LDAP layers itself on top of PHP's existing ldap extensions.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP/download/1.1.3
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_LDAP-1.1.3.tgz

Authors
-------
Benedikt Hallinger <beni@php.net> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package HTTP_Client-1.2.1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
Cookies set by sub.example.com for example.com were incorrectly rejected.
Thanks to Dylan Doxey (hyperion at doxey dot org) for report and initial patch.

Package Info
------------
The HTTP_Client class wraps around HTTP_Request and provides a higher level interface
for performing multiple HTTP requests.

Features:
* Manages cookies and referrers between requests
* Handles HTTP redirection
* Has methods to set default headers and request parameters
* Implements the Subject-Observer design pattern: the base class sends
events to listeners that do the response processing.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Client
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Client/download/1.2.1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...ient-1.2.1.tgz

Authors
-------
Alexey Borzov (lead)

The new PEAR package MIME_Type-1.1.3 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
- Coding Standards cleanup
- parameters are cleared when parsing again
- more tests

Package Info
------------
Provide functionality for dealing with MIME types.
* Parse MIME type.
* Supports full RFC2045 specification.
* Many utility functions for working with and determining info about types.
* Most functions can be called statically.
* Autodetect a file's mime-type, either with mime_content_type() or the 'file' command.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/MIME_Type
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/MIME_Type/download/1.1.3
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...Type-1.1.3.tgz

Authors
-------
Ian Eure (lead)
Christian Weiske (developer)

The new PEAR package System_Daemon-0.5.0 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
System_Daemon 0.5.0-alpha 2008-10-26 Kevin van Zonneveld &lt;kevin@vanzonneveld.net&gt;
* Pack and release r150 as 0.5.0-alpha
* Fixed bug: autoRunTemplatePath when writing init.d script
* Added default return value TRUE to Options::setOption
* Check for POSIX functions before calling them
* Keep a full changelog, keep manual Release Notes in NOTES
* Separate (release) Notes from Changelog. Manually update NOTES from now on

System_Daemon 0.4.0-alpha 2008-06-04 Kevin van Zonneveld &lt;kevin@vanzonneveld.net&gt;
* Pack and release r143 as 0.4.0-alpha
* Created seperate files for daemon templates
* Phased out OS-specifics into a driver architecture
* Phased out option mechanism into separate class
* Better naming concistency
* Better loading &amp;amp; checking of required classes
* Fixed bug: Undefined index when asking for an undefined Option
* Fixed bugs: concerning the init.d mechanisms
* Fixed bug: Continue setting other options when one has failed
* Implemented System_Daemon API changes
* Fixed bug: integer type is not defined. Should be number
* Improved Option System
* Reduced number of public variables
* Improved Tests
* Changed to non-abstract class
* Simplify if/else where possible
* Switched to class constants for error codes

System_Daemon 0.3.0-alpha 2008-05-11 Kevin van Zonneveld &lt;kevin@vanzonneveld.net&gt;
* Pack and release r94 as 0.3.0-alpha
* Added version mapping

Package Info
------------
System_Daemon is a PHP class that allows developers to create their own daemon
applications on Linux systems. The class is focussed entirely on creating &amp;
spawning standalone daemons, and for example includes:

1. Methods to generate OS-specific startup-files (init.d) (currently only
Debian/Ubuntu are supported), so that your application gets started on
reboot as well.
2. Methods for logging purposes, also support for PEAR's Log package
3. Simple syntax
5. Can run with or without PEAR (PEAR adds more elegance &amp; functionality,
no-PEAR offers functionality like including system_daemon with svn:externals
and reduced dependencies)
6. Default signal handlers, but optionally reroute signals to your own
handlers.
7. Set options like max RAM usage

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/System_Daemon
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/System_D...download/0.5.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...emon-0.5.0.tgz

Authors
-------
Kevin van Zonneveld <kevin@vanzonneveld.net> (lead)

The new PEAR package PHP_Fork-0.3.1 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
QA release:
* Update to package.xml version 2
* This fixes bug #9472: package not installable

Package Info
------------
PHP_Fork class. Wrapper around the pcntl_fork() stuff
with a API set like Java language.
Practical usage is done by extending this class, and re-defining
the run() method.
[see basic example]
This way PHP developers can enclose logic into a class that extends
PHP_Fork, then execute the start() method that forks a child process.
Communications with the forked process is ensured by using a Shared Memory
Segment; by using a user-defined signal and this shared memory developers
can access to child process methods that returns a serializable variable.
The shared variable space can be accessed with the tho methods:
o void setVariable($name, $value)
o mixed getVariable($name)
$name must be a valid PHP variable name;
$value must be a variable or a serializable object.
Resources (db connections, streams, etc.) cannot be serialized and so theyre not correctly handled.
Requires PHP build with --enable-cli --with-pcntl --enable-shmop.
Only runs on *NIX systems, because Windows lacks of the pcntl ext.
@example browser_pool.php an interactive tool to perform multiple cuncurrent request over an URL.
@example simple_controller.php shows how to attach a controller to started pseudo-threads.
@example exec_methods.php shows a workaround to execute methods into the child process.
@example passing_vars.php shows variable exchange between the parent process and started pseudo-threads.
@example basic.php a basic example, only two pseudo-threads that increment a counter simultaneously.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Fork
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Fork/download/0.3.1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PHP_Fork-0.3.1.tgz

Authors
-------

The new PEAR package Validate_AU-0.1.2 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
Bug #14320 - Strict validation now expects '0800' as a valid post code.

Package Info
------------
Package containes locale validation for AU such as:
* Phone Number
* Postal Code
* Tax File Number
* Australian Business Number
* Australian Company Number
* Australian Regional Codes

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Validate_AU
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Validate_AU/download/0.1.2
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...e_AU-0.1.2.tgz

Authors
-------
Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> (lead)

The new PEAR package File-1.4.0alpha1 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
- Split File_CSV from File into it's own package
- Split File_Util from File into it's own package

Package Info
------------
Provides easy access to read/write to files along with
some common routines to deal with paths.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/File
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/File/download/1.4.0alpha1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package....4.0alpha1.tgz

Authors
-------
Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com> (lead)
Cipriano Groenendal <cipri@php.net> (developer)

The new PEAR package File_CSV-1.0.0alpha1 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Split File_CSV from File into it's own package
* Change license to New BSD
* File_CSV::unquote now takes in an array and a string (string being the old way)
Passing in an array of fields, for example a whole line.
* Double quotes is now the default quoting character when people don't specify which quoting character to use

* Fix Bug #5257: File_CSV: delimiter problem if first field is empty [dufuz]
* Fix Bug #14118: Error with quoted fields and separators [dufuz]
* Fix Bug #11526: DiscoverFormat returns wrong nr of fields [izi]
* Fix Bug #11892: File_CSV performance severely hurt [dufuz]
* Fix Bug #14030: File_CSV::write() does not correctly quote field values [dufuz, walter]

Package Info
------------
Read and write of CSV files as well as discovering the format the CSV file is in.

Supports headers and is excel compatible, i.e. ="0004" outputs as 0004 (only read wise)

For more information on CSV: http://rfc.net/rfc4180.html

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/File_CSV
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/File_CSV...ad/1.0.0alpha1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package....0.0alpha1.tgz

Authors
-------
Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com> (lead)
Cipriano Groenendal <cipri@php.net> (developer)

The new PEAR package File_Util-1.0.0alpha1 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
- Split File_Util from File into it's own package

Package Info
------------
Common file and directory utility functions.
Path handling, temp dir/file, sorting of files, listDirs, isIncludable and more

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/File_Util
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/File_Uti...ad/1.0.0alpha1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package....0.0alpha1.tgz

Authors
-------
Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com> (lead)

The new PEAR package Net_IPv6-1.1.0b1 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
Because this release adds a new method and some bug tickets are still open, the package
release is named as Beta, instead of releasing a 5th RC version.

#14728 add parseAddress(), thanks to Nicholas Williams!
#14767 most CS issues should be solved

Package Info
------------
The class allows you to:
* check if an address is an IPv6 address
* compress/uncompress IPv6 addresses
* check for an IPv4 compatible ending in an IPv6 address
* check the assigned address space of an IPv6 address
* do netmask calculations

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_IPv6
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_IPv6/download/1.1.0b1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...v6-1.1.0b1.tgz

Authors
-------
Alexander Merz (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package File_MARC-0.2.2 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
0.2.0-beta
* Don't throw exceptions while parsing MARC data, because MARC data quality is uniformly bad; just add parsing errors to a warnings array on the MARC record
* Fix some documentation errors (thanks to Mark Jordan @ SFU for pointing these out)
* Add a test for setIndicator() and for escaping data in toXML()
-------------
0.2.1-beta
* Fix a raw warning that could occur if record length in leader did not match actual record length
-------------
0.2.2-beta
* Address PEAR Coding Standard violations (mostly whitespace) - closes bug# 14923
* Include MARCFLAT.php in distribution package
* Update copyright dates

Package Info
------------
The standard for machine-readable cataloging (MARC) records
is documented at http://loc.gov/marc/. This package enables you to read
existing MARC records from a file, string, or (using the YAZ extension), from
a Z39.50 source. You can also use this package to create new MARC records.

This package is based on the PHP MARC package, originally called
"php-marc", that is part of the Emilda Project (http://www.emilda.org).
Christoffer Landtman generously agreed to make the "php-marc" code available
under the GNU LGPL so it could be used as the basis of this PEAR package.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/File_MARC
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/File_MARC/download/0.2.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...MARC-0.2.0.tgz

Authors
-------
Dan Scott <denials@gmail.com> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Math_Numerical_RootFinding-1.1.0a1 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Request #2897: added new parameter $guess to validateEqFunction()
* Added unit tests
* Examples files renamed to lower case

Package Info
------------
Math_Numerical_RootFinding is the package provide various number of Numerical
Root-Finding Methods functions implemented in PHP.
Supported methods:
1. Bisection/Binary Chopping/Interval Halving/Bolzano
2. False Position/Regula Falsi
3. Fixed Point
4. Netwon-Raphson
5. Netwon-Raphson 2
6. Ralston-Rabinowitz
7. Secant

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Math_Numerical_RootFinding
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Math_Num...wnload/1.1.0a1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...ng-1.1.0a1.tgz

Authors
-------
Firman Wandayandi (lead)
Matthew Fonda (lead)

The new PEAR package PEAR_Size-0.1.9 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Fix Bug #14764: html output is ugly [kguest]
* Fix Bug #14975: Unit test failures - 'Killzero' isn't rendered [kguest]
* Implement Feature #14748: option to not display zero lines in verbose mode [kguest]

Package Info
------------
A commandline tool modeled on the Unix 'df' that lists how much filespace each installed package consumes. A subset of packages can be specified as can channels.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR_Size
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR_Size/download/0.1.9
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...Size-0.1.9.tgz

Authors
-------
Ken Guest <ken@linux.ie> (lead)

The new PEAR package HTML_TagCloud-0.2.3 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
Bug fixes:
* bug #14965: generateEpocLevel can't actually be used

Package Info
------------
This package can be used to generate tag clouds. The output is HTML and CSS.

A Tag Cloud is a visual representation of so-called "tags" or keywords, that do
have a different font size depending on how often they occur on the page/blog. A
less used synonym for a Tag Cloud that came up before Web 2.0 is the term
"weightet list". Popular examples of Tag Clouds and their use can be found in
action at pages like Flickr, Del.icio.us and Technorati. A nice overview on what
a Tag Cloud can actually do can be found at WikiPedia:
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud

This package does not only visualize frequency, but also timeline information.
The newer the tag is, the deeper its color will be; older tags will have a
lighter color.

The main goal of "HTML_TagCloud" is to provide an easy to implement and
configureable Tag Cloud solution that is suitable for any PHP-based webapp.

Features:
- set up each tag's name, URL, frequency, age
- customizable colors
- customizable font-sizes

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_TagCloud
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Tag...download/0.2.3
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...loud-0.2.3.tgz

Authors
-------
Bastian Onken (lead)

The new PEAR package File_MARC-0.2.3 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
0.2.3-beta
* Handle single-record MARC21XML files with "record" as the root element

Package Info
------------
The standard for machine-readable cataloging (MARC) records is documented at http://loc.gov/marc/. This package enables you to read existing MARC records from a file, string, or (using the YAZ extension), from a Z39.50 source. You can also use this package to create new MARC records.

This package is based on the PHP MARC package, originally called "php-marc", that is part of the Emilda Project (http://www.emilda.org). Christoffer Landtman generously agreed to make the "php-marc" code available under the GNU LGPL so it could be used as the basis of this PEAR package.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/File_MARC
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/File_MARC/download/0.2.3
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...MARC-0.2.3.tgz

Authors
-------
Dan Scott <denials@gmail.com> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package HTTP_Request2-0.1.0 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
Initial release. The features supported are mostly the same as those of
HTTP_Request, with the following additional feature requests implemented:
* cURL extension support (request #5463)
* It is now possible to monitor the file upload progress with Observers
(request #7630)
* Added 'sentHeaders' notification providing the request headers to the
Observers (request #7633)
* Added support for 'deflate' encoding (request #11246)

Package Info
------------
PHP5 rewrite of HTTP_Request package. Provides cleaner API and pluggable
Adapters. Currently available are:
* Socket adapter, based on old HTTP_Request code,
* Curl adapter, wraps around PHP's cURL extension,
* Mock adapter, to use for testing packages dependent on HTTP_Request2.
Supports POST requests with data and file uploads, authentication, cookies,
proxies, gzip and deflate encodings, monitoring the request progress with
Observers...

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Req...download/0.1.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...est2-0.1.0.tgz

Authors
-------
Alexey Borzov (lead)

The new PEAR package Crypt_GPG-1.0.0RC1 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
RC1. API is stable. Changes include:
* add support for initializing user ids, signatures and sub-keys from an array of fields.
* clean up unit tests to work with PEAR's continuous integration server.
* add unit tests for exception, user id, signature, key and sub-key classes.
* rename the 'gpgBinary' option in the constructor to just 'binary'. the old option name is deprecated but still works.
* rename Signature::setIsValid() to Signature::setValid() to match methods on UserId.
* remove unused exceptions: 'DuplicateKeyImportException', 'UnsignedKeyException', and 'MissingSelfSignatureException'.
* Fix ISO 8601 timestamp parsing when E_STRICT is used.

Package Info
------------
This package provides an object oriented interface to GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). It requires the GPG executable to be on the system.

Though GPG can support symmetric-key cryptography, this package is intended only to facilitate public-key cryptography.

This package requires PHP version 5.2.1 or greater.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Crypt_GPG
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Crypt_GPG/download/1.0.0RC1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...G-1.0.0RC1.tgz

Authors
-------
Michael Gauthier (lead)
Nathan Fredrickson <nathan@silverorange.com> (lead)

The new PEAR package Net_Gearman-0.2.0 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* WARNING - BC BREAK: Pass entire task object to failure callbacks (#15037, jstump)
* WARNING - BC BREAK: Switched from PHP serialize()/unserialize() to json_encode()/json_decode() (jstump)
* Switched to native PHP/SPL interfaces IteratorAggregate and Countable in Net_Gearman_Set (#14913, ieure)
* Removed mbstring as a requirement for installation (jstump)

Package Info
------------
Gearman (http://www.danga.com/gearman) is a system to farm out work to other machines. It can load balance function calls to lots of machines and allows you to call functions between languages. It can also run all function calls in parallel.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Gearman
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Gearman/download/0.2.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...rman-0.2.0.tgz

Authors
-------
Joe Stump <pear@joestump.net> (lead)
Chris Goffinet <cg@chrisgoffinet.com> (lead)

The new PEAR package Translation2-2.0.1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
- fixed bug #13933: undefined variable in the dataobjectsimple driver
- fixed bug #14323: wrong / no error from setLang() [cwiedmann]
- fixed bug in getLangs(), where certain formats were not recognized
- request #14979: fluent interface for setPageID() and setParams()
and for setOption() and setOptions() decorator methods
- request #15000: added SQL example in the /docs/examples dir

Package Info
------------
This class provides an easy way to retrieve all the strings for a multilingual site from a data source (i.e. db).
The following containers are provided, more will follow:
- PEAR:B
- PEAR::MDB
- PEAR::MDB2
- gettext
- XML
- PEAR:B_DataObject (experimental)
It is designed to reduce the number of queries to the db, caching the results when possible.
An Admin class is provided to easily manage translations (add/remove a language, add/remove a string).
Currently, the following decorators are provided:
- CacheLiteFunction (for file-based caching)
- CacheMemory (for memory-based caching)
- DefaultText (to replace empty strings with their keys)
- ErrorText (to replace empty strings with a custom error text)
- Iconv (to switch from/to different encodings)
- Lang (resort to fallback languages for empty strings)
- SpecialChars (replace html entities with their hex codes)
- UTF-8 (to convert UTF-8 strings to ISO-8859-1)

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Translation2
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Translation2/download/2.0.1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...ion2-2.0.1.tgz

Authors
-------
Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> (lead)
Ian Eure (developer)
Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> (developer)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package HTTP_Request-1.4.4 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
Development of HTTP_Request package is halted, only bug fixing will be done.
Please submit feature requests for HTTP_Request2 package.

Fixes:
* Improved memory usage of _buildRequest() method (bug #14574)
* Clarified documentation for addFile() method to mention that it is useful
only for POST method file uploads (bug #14635)
* Do not send "Content-Length: 0" header for methods other than
POST and PUT, as some servers may return error 400 (bug #14740)

Package Info
------------
Supports GET/POST/HEAD/TRACE/PUT/DELETE, Basic authentication, Proxy,
Proxy Authentication, SSL, file uploads etc.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request/download/1.4.4
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...uest-1.4.4.tgz

Authors
-------
Alexey Borzov (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Log-1.11.3 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
- It is now possible to configure the error_log handler's line and timestamp formats. (Bug #14655)
- Added _extractMessage() support for non-scalar array('message' => ...) values.
- Spaces in 'win' handler window names are now replaced with underscores.
- Added a class name format token: %8$s

Package Info
------------
The Log package provides an abstracted logging framework. It includes output handlers for log files, databases, syslog, email, Firebug, and the console. It also provides composite and subject-observer logging mechanisms.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Log
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Log/download/1.11.3
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Log-1.11.3.tgz

Authors
-------
Jon Parise <jon@php.net> (lead)
Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org> (lead)
Chuck Hagenbuch (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package PEAR_PackageUpdate-1.0.3 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* bugs
- fix cleanup phase of unit tests that raised notice errors

Package Info
------------
PEAR_PackageUpdate (PPU) is designed to allow developers to easily include auto updating features for other packages and PEAR installable applications. PPU will check to see if a new version of a package is available and then ask the user if they would like to update the package. PPU uses PEAR to communicate with the channel server and to execute the update.

PPU allows the end user to take some control over when they are notified about new releases. The PPU Preferences allow a user to tell PPU not to ask about certain types of releases (bug fixes, minor releases, etc.), not to ask about certain release states (devel, alpha, etc.), not to ask until the next release or not to ask again.

PPU is just an engine for package updating. It should not be used directly. Instead one of the driver packages such as PEAR_PackageUpdate_Gtk2 should be used depending on the application or other package.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR_PackageUpdate
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR_Pac...download/1.0.3
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...date-1.0.3.tgz

Authors
-------
Laurent Laville <pear@laurent-laville.org> (lead)

The new PEAR package XML_Feed_Parser-1.0.3 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
Bug fix release. Closes:
#13215 - Encoding problems
#12919 - &amp; in ULR's causes problems
#12522 - pubDate handler throws warning on empty field
#12017 - no rss2 image if <itunes:image/> precedes <image>
#11467 - Escaped HTML in Atom Text Constructs
#10702 - Indirect modification of overloaded property
#10336 - Error with encoding handling on xhtml

Package Info
------------
XML_Feed_Parser is a parser for (the various) RSS and Atom format XML feeds. It attempts to provide a somewhat unified API while still allowing access to the full details of each feed type.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Feed_Parser
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Feed...download/1.0.3
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...rser-1.0.3.tgz

Authors
-------
James Stewart <james@jystewart.net> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Validate_IE-1.0.2 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* bug fix: #15097 - package not marked as depending on validate_finance

Package Info
------------
Package contains validation for Irish credentials:
- PostalCodes
- Passport Numbers
- Phone Numbers
- Bank Account Numbers
- swift codes
- IBAN codes
- Drivers Licence Numbers
- PPSN / SSN Numbers
- Swift numbers

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Validate_IE
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Validate_IE/download/1.0.2
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...e_IE-1.0.2.tgz

Authors
-------
David Coallier <davidc@agoraproduction.com> (lead)
Ken Guest <ken@linux.ie> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package PHP_CompatInfo-1.9.0a2 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Fix bug #15011 : XSL extension not detected
* Fix Bug #11206: clone() bug [aidan]
* Fix Bug #11631: Missing '}' in loadFunction() [aidan]
* Fix Bug #12158: wrong function name [arpad]
* Fix Bug #12301: Compat calls php 5 function [arpad]
* Fix Bug #13018: Curly bracket missing [aidan]
* Fix Bug #13165: array_fill() not matching output from V5.3.0-dev. [arpad]
* Fix Bug #14138: htmlspecialchars_decode() converts irreversibly [arpad]
* Fix Bug #14824: Invalid sections formats in test file(s) (unit tests) [arpad]
* Fix Bug #14891: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in
/home/clockwerx/pear/PHP_Compat/Co [arpad]
* Fix Bug #15119: Patch and tests for getopt() [aidan]
* Implement Feature #11205: register globals SERVER not SESSION [arpad]
* Implement Feature #12227: sys_get_temp_dir missing [aidan]
* Implement Feature #13400: php_ini_loaded_file() [aidan]
* Implement Feature #14687: htmlspecialchars missing 4th parameter [aidan]


* news
- API 1.9.0 marked as beta, and first release is alpha due to change of
classes/constants detection of PHP extensions.

You are welcome to read my presentation about the new API at
http://pear.laurent-laville.org/pepr...atInfo/api190/

Do not hesitate to give me your feedback. More we test it, more stable will be
the final release.

* roadmap
- 2008-11-23 first alpha version
- 2008-12-19 stable release 1.9.0

Package Info
------------
PHP_CompatInfo will parse a file/folder/script/array to find out the minimum
version and extensions required for it to run. Features advanced debug output
which shows which functions require which version and CLI output script

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CompatInfo
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Comp...wnload/1.9.0a1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...fo-1.9.0a1.tgz

Authors
-------
Laurent Laville <pear@laurent-laville.org> (lead)

The new PEAR package PEAR_PackageUpdate-1.0.4 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* bugs
- fix bug #15131: Parse errors in examples

Package Info
------------
PEAR_PackageUpdate (PPU) is designed to allow developers to easily include auto updating features for other packages and PEAR installable applications. PPU will check to see if a new version of a package is available and then ask the user if they would like to update the package. PPU uses PEAR to communicate with the channel server and to execute the update.

PPU allows the end user to take some control over when they are notified about new releases. The PPU Preferences allow a user to tell PPU not to ask about certain types of releases (bug fixes, minor releases, etc.), not to ask about certain release states (devel, alpha, etc.), not to ask until the next release or not to ask again.

PPU is just an engine for package updating. It should not be used directly. Instead one of the driver packages such as PEAR_PackageUpdate_Gtk2 should be used depending on the application or other package.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR_PackageUpdate
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR_Pac...download/1.0.4
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...date-1.0.4.tgz

Authors
-------
Laurent Laville <pear@laurent-laville.org> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Services_Facebook-0.1.7 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Updated auth.revokeAuthorization, session key not required and able to pass in uid

Package Info
------------
An interface for accessing Facebook's web services API at http://api.facebook.com.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Facebook
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...download/0.1.7
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...book-0.1.7.tgz

Authors
-------
Joe Stump <pear@joestump.net> (lead)
Travis Swicegood (developer)
Jeff Hodsdon <jeffhodsdon@gmail.com> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Validate_ptBR-0.5.6 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
- Fixed Bug #12783 (thanks to jhenrique)
- Fixed Bug #11823 phpcs/Coding Standards issues highlighted.
- Avoid two strlen calls on pis() - cosmetic changes
- PHP test updated
- add new method pis()

Package Info
------------
Package contains locale validation for Brazilian Portuguese such as:
* Postal Code
* CNPJ
* CPF
* Region (brazilian states)
* Phone Number
* Vehicle's plate
* PIS

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Validate_ptBR
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Validate...download/0.5.6
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...ptBR-0.5.6.tgz

Authors
-------
Silvano Girardi Jr <silvano@php.net> (lead)
Marcelo Araujo <msaraujo@php.net> (lead)
Igor Feghali <ifeghali@php.net> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Services_Blogging-0.2.3 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
- Fix bug #15028: URL with trailing slash gives error [cweiske]
- Coding standards cleanup
- Add more docblocks, enhance existing ones (e.g. factory exceptions)
- Set client version correctly

Package Info
------------
API for accessing blog systems such as blogger, livejournal and others.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Blogging
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...download/0.2.3
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...ging-0.2.3.tgz

Authors
-------
Christian Weiske (lead)
Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Payment_DTA-1.2.1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
[-] input validation for overlong account/bank numbers
[-] use intval() and number_format() to ensure correct number output[*] more characters handled in makeValidString()
[+] new method: count()
( [+] Added [-] Fixed [*] Improved [!] Note )

Package Info
------------
Payment_DTA provides functions to create DTA files used in Germany to exchange informations about money transactions with banks or online banking programs.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Payment_DTA
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Payment_DTA/download/1.2.1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package..._DTA-1.2.1.tgz

Authors
-------
Martin Schütte <info@mschuette.name> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package File_DeliciousLibrary-0.1.1 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Fixed bug 14818: Unit test failures in CVS. (Patch provided by Daniel O'Connor.)

Package Info
------------
This package provides a convenient interface to extract information out of the XML based library database being used by Delicious Library. This makes it possible to e.g. expor the items from the library to a website.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/File_DeliciousLibrary
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/File_Del...download/0.1.1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...rary-0.1.1.tgz

Authors
-------
Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> (lead)

The new PEAR package Text_Password-1.1.1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* Fixed bug #12220: potential problems with global var use (Patch by Christian Weiske)

Package Info
------------
Text_Password allows one to create pronounceable and unpronounceable
passwords. The full functional range is explained in the manual at
http://pear.php.net/manual/.

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Password
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Pas...download/1.1.1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...word-1.1.1.tgz

Authors
-------
Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> (lead)
Olivier Vanhoucke <olivier.vanhoucke@gmail.com> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package PHP_CompatInfo-1.9.0b1 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* bugs
- __FILE__ and __LINE__ constants were not detected with 1.9.0a1

* news
- With first beta release, API 1.9.0 is marked as complete and will not change until stable.

You are welcome to read my presentation about the new API at
http://pear.laurent-laville.org/pepr...atInfo/api190/

Do not hesitate to give me your feedback. More we test it, more stable will be
the final release.

* roadmap
- 2008-11-23 first alpha version
- 2008-11-30 first beta version
- 2008-12-19 stable release 1.9.0

Package Info
------------
PHP_CompatInfo will parse a file/folder/script/array to find out the minimum
version and extensions required for it to run. Features advanced debug output
which shows which functions require which version and CLI output script

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CompatInfo
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Comp...wnload/1.9.0b1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...fo-1.9.0b1.tgz

Authors
-------
Laurent Laville <pear@laurent-laville.org> (lead)