It is the end of 2019 so let's review what was done in a year.

Funding

An OpenCollective fund was created and later expanded with Tidelift and GitHub. The fund allowed me to focus on Yii 3 while keeping Yii 1.1 and Yii 2.0 well maintained. That's a big success and I'd like to say thank you to all community members making it possible.

Processes

I've introduced "release Tuesdays", defined workflow for issue triaging, improved Yii 2 release tools. All that made it possible to release 15 Yii 2 versions, one Yii 1.1 version and numerous Yii 2 extensions while working on Yii 3.

Additionally, release cycle was clarified.

Yii 3

As seen from the updates, the progress so far is significant thanks to community members making great pull requests and doing reviews. It's a terrific job.

Of course, there's work to be done but the fact is that Yii 3 already could be used for projects. I'd not use it for commercial projects yet but hobby ones should be perfectly fine if you have time to adjust for future breaking changes and OK about the fact that there would be many.

So far we have a number of packages, part of the guide, demo application, great framework development tool and overall contribution workflow defined.

Next year we are going to tag some alpha releases, implement a few simple projects to check if framework usability is good enough, fix issues found along the way, provide an application template, complete the guide, polish packages further and implement things currently missing such as debug toolbar and Gii.

Thank you for supporting Yii and Happy New Year!

Hello everyone! We were silent for a month working on all the versions of the framework. Here's what we have so far.

Yii 1

Code from master branch passed all tests on PHP 7.4 immediately. That was quite a surprise. There are still some issues about PHP 7 compatibility in the issue tracker. After checking these we're going to tag another release.

Yii 2.0.31

New release of Yii 2 was done. It includes multiple bugfixes and two enhancements. One is about adding Forwarded header support to Request proxy configuration. Another is about expanding support of Yii 3 style container configuration.

But the main highlight of the release is PHP 7.4 compatibility. That was not easy to achieve it without losing old PHP 5 versions support. It took significant amount of time to explore possibilities and finally we've managed to solve it.

Yii 3

Overall development goes forward but not as fast as I was hoping. It seems overall release time estimate was too optimistic but I still think we'll be able to tag some of the Yii 3 packages and make it easier to try new version by providing a proper application template. It may happen either before 2020 or at the very start of the year.

Now, to the summary of what was done since November.

Concepts, discussions, tutorials

• A detailed example of how to contribute to Yii 3.0.
• Configuration concept prepared by roxblnfk was published for futher discussion.
• Yii-dev-tool enhancements.

Code

• PHP version requirement was raised to 7.4. Code was updated accordingly.
• Error handler design improved.
• Trusted hosts network resolver was added.
• Emitter is now outputting body as a stream avoiding memory issues for large content.
• Error handler got non-verbose mode suitable for production.
• Yii development tool was improved in many ways making it way more convenient to develop Yii 3.
• Router got groups support and then it was improved.
• Middleware dispatcher got some significant improvements.
• View layer got some love.
• Somogyi Márton did experimental split of view layer in separate repository. We are preparing to get good parts of it into Yii 3.
• Ability to run from sub-directory was added.
• Emitter now throws very helpful exception in case HTTP headers were already sent.

Documentation

• Performance Tuning.
• Application.
• Domain.
• Dependency injection and container.
• Handling Errors.

Internal guideline corrections

• Code style.
• Error Correction.

Overall infrastructure

• We've migrated travis from .org to .com. There are still some leftovers but when we'll clear these, there will be less confusion about where the build for a package is.
• Status page was updated with current Yii 3 packages.
• Release cycle page was updated with PHP versions support.

Funding

We've participated in GitHub beta funding program together with GitHub team and managed to set it up properly. Also set up Tidelift so now there are two more options to help Yii by filling its development fund.

Tidelift is helpful in another way. They have handy checklists such as providing link to reporting security issues from each repository. While improving the meta some mistakes were found and fixed in Yii repositories.

The issue with it is that it's not as transparent as OpenCollective but I promise to reduce my invoices to OpenCollective by the amount got via Tidelift. Hopefully that would allow to get more people doing nearly full-time Yii development. If you want to spend more time on Yii 3 but can't because of financial reasons, please contact me (Alexander Makarov) and we'll try to arrange something.

Thank you!

I'd like to thank all backers and contributors making Yii 3 possible. We are moving it forward together.

Personal thanks to Somogyi Márton, roxblnfk, Pavel Ivanov, Dmitriy Derepko, thenotsoft who made excellent pull requests.