Magento

The PEAR packages upgrade for 0.8.17240 is now available for download via Magento’s Extensions Administrative interface or via SSH shell command line.

Please note that this version upgrade introduces a change that will require additional steps for successful upgrade from previous versions (this does not apply to clean PEAR installation), as explained below:

• The PEAR installer upgrades packages by deleting files from previous release and creating files for new release
• The new release packages do not contain files that usually will be modified by the user, such as “/index.php” and “/.htaccess”
• These files will be supplied with different names, which are “/index.php.sample” and “/.htaccess.sample” for use as sample
• That means that existing files will be deleted and not recreated
• Therefore we suggest to back up these 2 files before the PEAR upgrade and restore them after the upgrade

This applies only to this specific upgrade, and will not be required for consequent upgrades.

NOTE: If you are using the index.php without modifying it and try to re-upload your files you will need to change the line Mage::run(’base’) to Mage::run(’default’) for the new version to work.