Pear pushed a new release 1.5.0 that you can upgrade now using pear upgrade PEAR. The new release come with lots of bugfixes and many exciting new features, but most noticeable changes is that since 1.5.0, PHP 4.3.0 or newer is required for PEAR. From the new features added :
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  • package.xml 2.1 allows PECL zend extensions like xdebug to define themselves as such
  • automatic enabling and disabling of pecl extensions in php.ini is now supported
  • post-installation scripts are much more advanced in the CLI frontend
  • deprecated packages are displayed as such by the installer
  • TAP output is possible with the run-tests command

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