We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 2.0.38. Please refer to the instructions at https://www.yiiframework.com/download/ to install or upgrade to this version.

Notable changes in this version, additionally to some bug-fixes:

• PHP 8 support.
• Latest MySQL and PostgreSQL versions up from 10 are good and added to our test pipelines.
• Fixtures with circular dependencies are now loaded once instead of throwing exception.
• Fixed CVE-2020-15148: remote code execution in case application calls unserialize() on user input containing specially crafted string. Details are available in a security advisory.

First verison of HTTP independent package was released.

The package provides:

• Constants for HTTP protocol headers, methods and statuses. All along with short descriptions and RFC links.
• PSR-7, PSR-17 PhpStorm meta for HTTP protocol headers, methods and statuses.

More details could be found in the package README.

First version of yiisoft/strings standalone package was released.

The package provides:

• StringHelper that has static methods to work with strings;
• NumericHelper that has static methods to work with numeric strings;
• Inflector provides methods such as toPlural() or toSlug() that derive a new string based on the string given;
• WildcardPattern is a shell wildcard pattern to match strings against.

More details could be found in the package README.

New version of Injector package was tagged. It is focused on PHP 8 support and takes new PHP features, such as union types, into account.

Check it out

First version of yiisoft/json standalone package was released.

The package provides methods to encode and decode JSON.

• It always throws \JsonException instead of returning false on error.
• It has sensible defaults, so you don't have to specify flags all the time.
• It has handy method to encode for HTML safely.
• It handles \JsonSerializable, \DateTimeInterface, and \SimpleXMLElement well.

Usage example is available in readme.

First version of yiisoft/auth standalone package was released.

The package provides various authentication methods, a set of abstractions to implement in your application, and a PSR-15 middleware to authenticate an identity. Out of the box it provides HTTP basic authentication, HTTP bearer authentication, custom HTTP header authentication, query parameter authentication, and composite authentication that combines multiple methods. It is possible to add your own authentication methods.

More description and usage examples are available in readme.

The code follows our new standards and has 100% test coverage and high mutation score.

First version of yiisoft/access standalone package was released.

This package provides an interface for checking checking if certain user has certain permission. Optional parameters could be passed for fine-grained access checks.

Usage example is available in readme.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 2.0.37. Please refer to the instructions at https://www.yiiframework.com/download/ to install or upgrade to this version.

Version 2.0.37 fixes 9 bugs including previous release regressions. Also this release make PhpStorm IDE code-completion better and enhances the way exceptions are printed out in console application when in debug mode.

A complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGELOG.

Thanks to all Yii community members who contribute to the framework, translators who keep documentation translations up to date and community members who answer questions at forums.

There are many active Yii communities so if you need help or want to share your experience, feel free to join them.

We are very pleased to announce the release of ElasticSearch extension version 2.1.0.

This is the first stable release with support for ElasticSearch from version 5 to current version 7.

We have switched to GitHub actions for testing it. Extension is tested on PHP 5.6 - PHP 7.4 and ElasticSearch 5.6.16, 6.8.9, and 7.7.0.

We are very pleased to announce the release of the ApiDoc extension version 2.1.5.

This release fixes some issues using extension with PHP 7.

See the CHANGELOG for a full list of changes.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 2.0.36. Please refer to the instructions at https://www.yiiframework.com/download/ to install or upgrade to this version.

Version 2.0.36 is an interesting release.

• A big part of it is MSSQL-related fixes made by @DarkDef. Additionally to these, he added MSSQL tests to GitHub actions pipeline so what's covered by tests won't break anymore.
• Regressions in ArrayHelper::getValue() and EachValidator from last release were fixed.
• Mutex::isAcquired() was added so you can check if mutex is acquired without acquiring it.
• jQuery 3.5.0 compatibility was declared so this version can now be used.

Yii 2 Composer plugin that handles many extension-related things behind the scenes, was updated to support parallel unzipping introduced in upcoming Composer 2.

Update should not require any specific actions to be performed except issuing composer update command.

First version of yiisoft/aliases standalone package was released.

The package aim is to store path aliases, i.e. short name representing a long path (a file path, a URL, etc.). Path alias value may have another value as its part. For example, @vendor may store path to vendor directory while @bin may store @vendor/bin.

More description and usage examples are available in readme.

The code has 100% test coverage and 100% mutation score i.e. it is very stable.

We are very pleased to announce the release of ElastiSearch extension version 2.0.7. This release fixes a couple of bugs and adds PHP forward compatibility to the legacy 2.0.x branch that is compatible with ElasticSeach from 1.6.0 to 1.7.6.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

We are very pleased to announce the release of ElastiSearch extension version 2.0.6. This release fixes a couple of bugs and adds forward compatibility to the legacy 2.0.x branch that is compatible with ElasticSeach from 1.6.0 to 1.7.6.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

Injector can invoke methods or create objects resolving their dependencies from a PSR-11 container via autowiring. It can:

• Invoke callable or create an object of a given class.
• Resolve dependencies by parameter types using the given PSR-11 container.
• Pass concrete dependency instances by type.
• Pass arguments by name.

As one of the central parts of Yii 3 it is what does all the auto-wiring into action handlers and widgets.

Since is a framework-independent package, it can be used in any PHP project.

Check it out

We are very pleased to announce the release of Redis extension version 2.0.13.

This version adds Redis 5.0 stream commands.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Gii extension version 2.2.1.

This release allows the usage of anonymous generators.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

We are very pleased to announce the release of the ApiDoc extension version 2.1.4.

This release add support for @property and @method annotations.

See the CHANGELOG for a full list of changes.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Shell extension version 2.0.4. This version allows installing psy/psysh ~0.10.3.