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The new PEAR package VFS-0.3.0 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* Rename fixes for SMB driver (leena.heino(a)uta.fi, Horde Bug #7933).
* Set LC_TIME to C for consistency in date parsing in the SSH2 backend (michael-dev(a)fami-braun.de, Horde Bug #6396)
* Pass -n for numeric UIDs/GIDs in the SSH2 backend when mapping to local user ids (Horde Request #6579)
* Fix readByteRange() (wrong method name) in SQL backend
* Add readFile() support, with optimizations for file, ftp, ssh2, and smb backends
* Add readStream() support to backends that can get a stream resource efficiently
* Add delete() as a shorter name for deleteFile()
* Add a Kolab VFS driver.
* Use streams for file transfers in VFS_ssh2 (jives(a)jives.ixum.net, Horde Request #8323)
* Check quota when copying files (Horde Bug #8643).

Package Info
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This package provides a Virtual File System API, with backends for:

* SQL
* FTP
* Local filesystems
* Hybrid SQL and filesystem
* Samba
* SSH2/SFTP
* IMAP (Kolab)

Reading, writing and listing of files are all supported, and there are both object-based and array-based interfaces to directory listings.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/VFS
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/VFS/download/0.3.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/VFS-0.3.0.tgz

Authors
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Chuck Hagenbuch (lead)
Jan Schneider <jan(a)horde.org> (lead)