If you're looking for more info about what's new in PEAR and PECL, or if you're looking for more info about what PEAR and PECL are, this article might be helpful to you. Zend.com have written a PHP weekly review telling about all the new additions to PEAR and PECL.

If you would like more information on either of these summaries, please see the article or issue 1 and issue 2.