[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.

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