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 commerial 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!