We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 1.1.4!

In this release, we included more than 60 bug fixes and feature enhancements. Some of the important enhancements include: Added support for automatic action parameter binding from $_GET; Added CSqlDataProvider and CArrayDataProvider; Added CUrlManager::addRules() to support dynamic addition of URL routing rules; And refactored CActiveRecord so that CActiveRecord::with() always returns the AR object itself. For the complete list of changes in this release, please see the changelog.

We are very glad to have three new members joining our developer team. Their forum IDs are samdark, Y!! and mdomba. For people who visit our forum constantly, you may know these new members very well already. They are very helpful at answering questions raised in our forum, developing and sharing Yii extensions, and helping resolve Yii issues. We believe Yii will move forward faster with these new additions to our team.

We are very pleased to announce that the first Yii book is published today! The book is titled Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5. Thanks to Jeffrey Winesett for his hard work in turning this into reality. We believe this book will help people to master Yii more quickly and systematically.

The main content of this book include:

• A step-by-step guide to creating a modern, sophisticated web application using an incremental and iterative approach to software development
• Build a real-world, user-based, database-driven project task management application using the Yii development framework
• Take a test-driven design (TDD) approach to software development utilizing the Yii testing framework
• Write less code by using Yii's application generation and scaffolding tools
• Enhance your application by adding Web feeds, adapting it to multiple languages, and by utilizing themes to provide beautiful skins and design flexibility