$Id: Release-1.4.0alpha2,v 1.1 2007/06/25 15:07:26 ashnazg Exp $

PhpDocumentor Version 1.4.0
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http://www.phpdoc.org
Gregory Beaver cellog@php.net
Joshua Eichorn jeichorn@phpdoc.org
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The phpDocumentor team would like to announce the release of phpDocumentor
1.4.0.  This feature release adds initial support for documenting "magic" 
properties, a couple of new runtime options, plus a few minor internal 
enhancements.

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IMPORTANT:  phpDocumentor 1.4.0 requires PHP version 4.2.0 or greater.
phpDocumentor will function best with PHP version 4.3.0 or greater, as it will
use of the tokenizer extension if php 4.3.0 is installed for a tremendous
increase in parsing speed.  PHP version 5.1.0 or newer is recommended to take
advantage of PHP5-only features.

WARNING:  A bug in PHP v5.2.1 can cause PhpDocumentor v1.3.1 and older to
spiral into an infinite loop when parsing tutorial documents.  PhpDocumentor 
v1.3.2 and newer will crash itself at the beginning of the tutorial parsing 
stage if it detects PHP v5.2.1 being used to parse tutorials.
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Speaking of speed, do NOT run the PDF Converter with --sourcecode = on for any
medium to large sized projects.  I had to kill a PDF generation after 36 hours
on a Pentium IV 2.66GHz computer - 36 hours!  The design of the PDF generation
library is tremendously inefficient, probably on the order of O(n^2).  I'd fix
this if I knew anything about PDF.  If there are any users out there with the
time and expertise to look into the algorithms used by CPdf, we would all
appreciate it.

A full listing of all closed bugs and feature requests can be found in the 
next section of the notes.

phpDocumentor 1.4.0 is ready for production use documenting any PHP project,
download it and try the most advanced solution for PHP documentation
today.

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The following PEAR items are included in version 1.4.0:
Req #10670: Don\'t Die on Empty Tag Descriptions
Doc #10675: Clear some errors.html items
Doc #10730: Replace Sourceforge Trackers with PEAR
Bug #10864: PhpDocumentor dies when parsing illegal page-level docblock
Bug #10870: Dead links generated with HTML:Smarty:PHP
Bug #10871: Wrong rendering of inline {@internal}}
Bug #10910: DOM templates create incorrect trees
Doc #10914: Can&apos;t use nested tags inside &lt;kbd&gt; or &lt;samp&gt;
Doc #10972: @method does not work
Doc #11032: param type1|type2 not documented
Doc #11143: Provide a Minimal Tutorial File Setup Example


The following Sourceforge items are included in version 1.4.0:
- [1647423] memory_limit: bad if-clause
- [1622538] List undocumented classes/functions (thanks Sebastian Marconi)
- [1602988] Added --ignore-symlinks option (thanks Daniel Hahler)
- [1588942] Allow memory_limit setting in phpdoc.ini
- [1588936] Show INI Path at Startup
- [1585840] Refactored RETURNs #3
- [1574047] Refactored RETURNs #2
- [1574043] Refactored RETURNs #1
- [1543289] Apply ignore patterns to subdir of dir, instead of full path (thanks Daniel Hahler)
- [1543287] Use predefined PHP env var in phpdoc script (thanks Daniel Hahler)
- [1540666] patch for @property, @property-read and @property-write tags (thanks Derick Rethans)
- [1044752] List undocumented classes/functions

You can view the bug details or reopen one if
you think it's not totally fixed at:
http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name%5B%5D=PhpDocumentor
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11194&atid=111194

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The documentation has been updated for this release you can view it at
http://www.phpdoc.org/docs
or in the distribution in the spec directory

The changelog is available in the tarball, or online at 
http://pear.php.net/package/PhpDocumentor/download/

You can download the newest version from 
http://pear.php.net/package/PhpDocumentor/download/ 
and http://phpdocu.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

And of course you can reach the webpage at
http://pear.php.net/package/PhpDocumentor/ or
http://phpdocu.sourceforge.net/ or
http://phpdoc.org/

enjoy
-gregory beaver <cellog@php.net>
-joshua eichorn <jeichorn@phpdoc.org>


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