On the PEAR blog there's a new post talking about some of the things coming up in July that you might want to take note of.

There’s nothing quite like having your blogging system go MIA for a while to give your community an overwhelming impression that no one is home. Thankfully; despite the radio silence between updates there’s quite a lot to talk about!

The updates include mentions of several new PEPr proposals for packages related to Mercurial support, Twitter and holiday date validation. There's also a mention of the large amount of PEAR channels that are popping up and the future of PEAR in PHP 5.3+ with Pyrus.

As is mentioned on the PEAR blog today, there's some new advancements that are being made to make submitting proposals simpler.

Thanks to the efforts of Daniel O’Connor, the PEAR website is getting nicer and better. Bug RSS feeds support Baetle now, the PEAR proposal system - PEPr - works again and many small improvements and fixes found their way on the site.

Baetle is a "bug and enhancement tracking language" project that describes the information in things like the BugZilla and Jira tracking applications.