The PEAR group, with some of the new leadership in place, has decided to start something that probably should have been in place long ago - the PEAR blog.

Joshua Eichorn notes:

We will be using it to make announcements and to ask the community for feedback. I think this is a big step towards making PEAR a more transparent project.

So far, the most interesting post is the latest one mentioning PEAR's new installer - Pyrus - a (currently pre-devel) installer that will handle the PHP5+ PEAR packages to come.