As a bonus, I've posted my collection of Yii-related hate-posts as GitHub repository.

Yii 2

• Yii 2.0.30
• Auth Client 2.2.6
• Debug 2.1.12
• Gii 2.1.12
• Smarty 2.0.9
• MongoDB 2.1.9

Yii 3

Progress so far:

• Rustam Mamadaminov moved authorization and authentication to separate package yiisoft/auth making it more focused and potentially useful as a separate library.
• Somogyi Márton made improvements to network utilities adding DNS checks.
• ErrorCatcher got improvements in handing accept header. The part about parsing the header and considering priorities is in a separate helper so could be reused.
• Dmitriy Derepko started doing minor adjustments to yiisoft/queue and yiisoft/yii-dataview. The package is going to contain widgets that work with data readers.
• In the demo all the static URLs were replaced to dynamically generated ones. That would likely be a recommended way to create URLs in Yii 3. We may introduce some syntactic sugar though.
• Validator package got IP validation implemented by Somogyi Márton.
• Friendly exception package got a readme.
• Pavel Ivanov contributed significantly to development tools. Here's his summary of what was done.
• roxblnfk continues improving Cycle ORM integration and working on concept for configuration files.

Plans:

1. Tag at least some more or less stable and definitely useful packages by the end of the year.
2. Revisit validation. Currently it serves two purposes. First is single value validation i.e. assertions. Second is data set validation that is composed from assertions. While it is looking good, there is a problem about validating dependent data. Likely we'll get back to Yii 2 style of validation.
3. Revisit configuration. roxblnfk did a good job about prototyping it and there are draft documents that are to be posted at the forum for further discussion.
4. Prepare an application template. Meanwhile, yiisoft/yii-demo serves the purpose of being our testing playground.

Funding

Collective budget so far allows me focusing on managing Yii overall, handling Yii 2 releases, doing reviews and at least some code. Community helps a lot contribution-wise but, I'm sure that having additional team member focusing on code most of the time would speed up development of Yii 3 significantly.

In order to raise more funding I am going to try reaching to companies in a better way by setting up Tidelift. At least I've heard that contributing financially via OpenCollective isn't easy for a company accounting-wise.

Thanks, community!

Thanks to all backers funding Yii development. Current progress would've been impossible without you!

Contributing financially is not the only way to support Yii. Other ways are as valuable. We'd like to specially thank our long-term contributors who are giving valuable insights, reviewing code, translating documentation and making great pull requests.

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Today three Yii 2 extensions got new releases:

• Debug 2.1.11 adding more garbage collection, fixing issues and adding buttons for navigating between requests
• Auth client 2.2.5 replacing deprecated dependency spomky-labs/jose with JWT Framework
• Redis 2.0.11 adding Redis cluster.

With my informal announcement of the intent to get Yii 3 alpha release by the end of the year many community contributors became very active so likely the summary below misses a few interesting things that happened since last time.

Tomorrow I'm heading to Bulgaria PHP to speak about code packaging principles. While the talk is not about Yii 3, it is more or less what shaped packages set we have now.

There are no conferences scheduled after that so my plan is to focus on Yii 3 even more.

But, enough about my plans, let's get to progress so far.

• yii-cycle package was created by @roxblnfk. It makes it much easier to integrate Cycle ORM implementing connection itself, scanning entities for changes, migrations console commands including diff-based migration generator. If you want to try it, check out this pull request from yii-demo.
• Many tests were contributed by Somogyi Márton, Zhukov Roman, romkatsu.
• @roxblnfk added support for friendly exceptions to yii-console.
• Network utilities package was extracted from common codebase. Right now it contains IP helper. More features are to be added such as checking NS records of a domain.
• Another iteration of widgets implementation was made by Wilmer Arambula. It didn't fit this time but he's going to do another attempt.
• @simialbi proposed using GitHub actions to run unit tests. Initial results are good but I need more time testing it before we do the switch.
• Direction for new Debugger was set. There are multiple issues created with features we want.

Also, some docs were added:

• Prevent validators mutating data decision.
• No alignment added to code style.
• Logging
• Actions
• Entry scripts
• Draft of service components

Thank you for your support!