News

Initial PEAR public release occured at end of April 2003.

Moved output of the PEAR_Info to PEAR_Info::show()

Local PEAR logo copy included

Added PEAR Configuration section to the output

Allows Off-Line viewing

Shows *all* installed packages, whether in PEAR or not

You can now specify a custom PEAR config file

Added static method, PEAR_Info::packageInstalled(). Allows to check if a package is installed or not.

Easy change look and feel with a simple CSS file

Show packages dependencies list

HTML page output is XHTML compliant

Introduce a full and flexible configuration system to show only information you want

Show channel list

Show maintainer inactive status in Credits page

Support REST 1.0 protocol

Drop support of package xml 1.0

Credits page is now customizable with PEAR_INFO_CREDITS_* constant

You may have a standalone html page (default behavior) with PEAR_INFO_FULLPAGE, or part of it

Removed support of PEAR 1.3.x

Upgrade requirement to PHP 4.3.0 and PEAR 1.5.4 (to avoid security vulnerability)

Coding Standard fixes (errors/warnings) following recommandation by PHP_CodeSniffer

PEAR_Info is also available now on command line (CLI), and display a text report as phpinfo() did.