We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 2.0.18. Please refer to the instructions at https://www.yiiframework.com/download/ to install or upgrade to this version.

Version 2.0.18 is a minor release of Yii 2.0 which fixes some bugs.

No known changes that could affect existing applications were made.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Auth Client extension version 2.2.1 fixing a bug when OAuthToken is incorrectly instantiated if configuration array has incorrect order.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

We are very pleased to announce the release of HTTP client extension version 2.0.9.

This release includes work made by Alexander Kartavenko, @alexkart. There are two bugs fixed:

• Fixed type error in StreamTransport when $http_response_header = null
• Added Content-Length: 0 header when sending request with empty body

And enhancements made in files uploading and downloading with CURL transport reducing memory usage significantly. Details could be found in the guide.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

Since OpenCollective campaign is almost there allowing one core team member focusing on the project, we are ready to start tagging releases more. From now on every Tuesday is "release day" and overall policy is the following:

• Extension releases are tagged every week if there are changes since last release.
• Main framework package release is tagged about once a month if there are changes since last release.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Auth Client extension version 2.2.0 upgrading LinkedIn client to v2 and updating Google client image used in the auth widget.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

We are very pleased to announce the release of HTTP client extension version 2.0.8.

• Fixed a bug that Response::detectFormatByContent() falsely detected HTML as XML
• Added extra check to Message::addData() to prevent error on trying to merge non-array
• Made it possible configuring JsonParser to parse JSON as objects instead of arrays
• Added MockTransport for test environments

See the CHANGELOG for details.

We are pleased to announce the release of Smarty extension version 2.0.8 that makes EVENT_BEFORE_RUN and EVENT_AFTER_RUN consistent with behavior of Widget::end() method.

We are very pleased to announce that Yii Framework version 1.1.21 is released. You can download it at yiiframework.com/download/.

This release is a release of Yii 1.1 that has reached maintenance mode and will, only receive necessary security fixes and fixes to adjust the code for compatibility with PHP 7 if they do not cause breaking changes. This allows you to keep your servers PHP version up to date in the environments where old Yii 1.1 applications are hosted and stay within the version ranges supported by the PHP team. Yii 1.1.21 is compatible with PHP 7.3 that, at the time of this writing, has an announced security support until December 6, 2021.

We recommend to use Yii 2.0 for new projects as well as introducing Yii 2.0 for developing new features in existing Yii 1.1 apps, as described in the Yii 2 guide. Upgrading a whole app to Yii 2.0 will, in most cases, result in a total rewrite so this option provides a way for upgrading step by step and allows you to keep old applications up to date even with low budget.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Debug extension version 2.1.1.

This version fixes some bugs including accessibility ones and adds multiple enhancements:

• The toolbar is now resizeable. Default height could be set in the configuration.
• Module pageTitle property added. It allows setting page title to be used.
• The color contrast of the toolbar was improved.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

In order for such a big project as Yii to function properly, we need core contributors watching it constantly: making sure it goes in the right way, managing releases, making decisions. Time proved that while it is possible to do it having a full-time job, it is not as focused, fast and committing as needed.

Previously it was possible to support Yii in many ways: contributing code, participating in community activities, translating documentation. Donating to the project was not among them. The reasons for it were that:

• We are not the best about paperwork.
• The idea of how to spend money for the good of the project was very vague.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 2.0.17. Please refer to the instructions at https://www.yiiframework.com/download/ to install or upgrade to this version.

Version 2.0.17 is a minor release of Yii 2.0 which contains some bugfixes including a security fix.

No known changes that could affect existing applications were made.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Queue extension version 2.2.0.

The release is fixing important bugs, reduces roundtrips to beanstalk server when removing a job, marking ErrorEvent as deprecated and making job execution result being forwarded to event handler.

Full changelog is available at GitHub.

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

Additionally to bugfixes, there are some enhancements in this release:

1. New version has less dependencies thanks to simialbi. It doesn't depend on bootstrap package anymore.
2. New option added to singularize class names in modele generator.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

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

Additionally to bugfixes, there some enhancements:

1. Module has checkAccessCallback property that you can set to a callable that returns a boolean determining if current user should be allowed to access debug.
2. New "dump" panel was added. It collects and displays debug messages logged with Logger::LEVEL_TRACE.
3. New version has less dependencies thanks to simialbi. It doesn't depend on bootstrap package anymore.
4. There are small visual adjustments as well.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Bootstrap 4 extension version 2.0.1. There are five bugs fixed found since initial release.

We have added a new page to yiiframework.com website called "release cycle". Its purpose is to clarify about how long a certain framework version will be supported.

Default policy is that after current major version release previous major version has:

• Two years of bug fixes.
• Three years of security and PHP compatibility fixes.

For example, in case Yii 3.0 would be released today, 2.0 would receive bugfixes till March 2021 and security fixes till March 2024.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 2.0.16.1. Please refer to the instructions at https://www.yiiframework.com/download/ to install or upgrade to this version.

Version 2.0.16.1 is a bugfix release of Yii 2.0 which fixed regressions in 2.0.16.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 2.0.16. Please refer to the instructions at https://www.yiiframework.com/download/ to install or upgrade to this version.

Version 2.0.16 is a minor release of Yii 2.0 which contains more than a hundred enhancements and bug fixes including security fixes.

Yii 2.0 reached feature freeze more than a year ago, meaning that the 2.0 branch will only receive bug fixes. That was done in order to allow the Yii Team to focus on the upcoming Yii 3 rewrite. There's more on Yii 3 at the very end of this announcement.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Bootstrap extension version 2.0.9 which updates asset constraint to use Bootstrap 3.4.x.

We are very pleased to announce the first stable release of Bootstrap 4 extension version 2.0.0 that adds assets and widgets for Bootstrap 4.

The guide is available at the website.