We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 1.1.5. This new version is now available for download from the Yii site:

This release includes more than 80 bug fixes and feature enhancements. Just a few of the highlights include:

• support for using actions in console commands, which take command line options as the parameters to the actions
• support for theming views rendered by widgets
• support for importing and autoloading PHP 5.3 classes that are taking advantage of using namespace
• support for returning ActiveRecord results indexed by a specified attribute

We are very proud to announce that Yii has a new official project site! This is a complete rewrite of the old site, with brand new designs and many new features. We hope you all like it!

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

We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 1.1.3.

In this release, we fixed more than 20 bugs and added more than 50 enhancements. Please check the change log for complete list of changes.

Thank you for your support!

We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 1.1.2.

One of the main enhancements introduced in 1.1.2 is called gii, a highly customizable and extensible Web-based code generating platform. Using gii, one can quickly generate the code for his specific needs and in his favorite style via an intuitive Web interface. Other than gii, we also included 20 bug fixes and more than 20 minor enhancements, such as changing relations and validation rules on-the-fly for ActiveRecord, new jQuery-UI-based autocomplete, etc.

Upgrading to 1.1.2 from 1.1.1 should require minimal effort. If you upgrade from earlier versions, please refer to the included upgrading instructions.

We are very pleased to announce two releases of Yii Framework: 1.1.1 and 1.0.12.

The long-awaited 1.1.1 release is a major service pack to the previous 1.1.0 release. In this release, we fixed more than 20 bugs. We also included numerous new features, some of which are expected to further accelerate development speed using Yii. For example, the new CActiveForm widget allows developers to easily build HTML forms that support both client- and server-side validation by writing validation rules only once; The CGridView widget now supports filtering; And the Yii code generator tool will now generate the code implementing searching and filtering features. Please check the change log for complete list of changes.

The 1.0.12 release is a maintenance release of 1.0 branch. It mainly includes a few minor bug fixes and features. Upgrading to this release from the earlier 1.0.x releases should be very safe.

We are very excited to announce the stable release of Yii Framework v1.1!

This release marks a major milestone in the Yii framework development. It represents more than one year's hard work of the developer team and the Yii community. We hereby thanks to everyone who supports and contributes to Yii.

In this release, we include numerous new features to the already powerful Yii framework. We added a PHPUnit-based testing framework so that developers can more easily write unit tests and functional tests; We added a form builder so that commonly used HTML forms can be built in terms of objects and thus enhance their reusability; We added support for changing skins for widgets globally; We also modified the way of performing relational ActiveRecord queries so that they are more intuitive and easier to use.

Besides all these core feature enhancements, in this release we also include a set of official Yii extensions (under the name of the zii project). In this library, users may find many useful and powerful extensions, such as the whole set jQuery UI widgets, data grid, list view, detail view, and so on. All these further help to further enhance your rapid development experience using Yii.

We are very pleased to announce two releases of Yii Framework, 1.0.11 and 1.1 release candidate (RC).

The 1.0.11 release is a maintenance release over the previous 1.0 releases. It includes about ten bug fixes and many minor feature enhancements. Please check the change log for complete list of changes.

The 1.1 RC release is the last release before we formally release version 1.1 which represents more than one year of hard work from our developer team and the Yii user community. In this release, we included several useful components, such as CActiveDataProvider, CGridView, CListView, CDetailView, etc. They help to further improve the rapid application development (RAD) experience offered by Yii. Please check the change log for complete list of changes in this release.

We wish everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

We are proud to announce the beta release of Yii Framework v1.1!

In this beta release, we fixed several minor bugs that were found in the previous alpha release. We also included some minor feature enhancements. In particular, we added support for using table prefix in Yii DAO and ActiveRecord. We refactored the sorting support so that it is more flexible. We also added support for using customized locale data when developing multi-language applications.

Besides the changes made in the core framework, we also made significiant progress in the zii project (the official extension library for Yii). We have completed the encapsulation of the jQuery UI (JUI) library and introduced a full set of widgets to facilitate using JUI plugins.

For a list of all features included in this release, please check change log.

We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.10!

In this release, we included nearly thirty bug fixes and minor feature enhancements. An important bug we fixed is that executing an SQL statement using CDbCommand may cause subsequent SQL executions or ActiveRecord queries to fail. We improved the included CAPTCHA widget by allowing it to use transparent background. We added Yii::registerAutoloader() so that third-party class autoloader methods can be more easily hooked in Yii environment. We added support for attaching anonymous functions (PHP 5.3+) as event handlers. We also enhanced CPhpMessageSource so that each extension can manage its own translated messages. Last but not the least, we added CBooleanValidator so that validating boolean values (e.g. checkbox input) is easier. For a list of all enhancements and issues resolved in this release, please see change logs.

Upgrading to v1.0.10 from v1.0.9 should be very safe without any known backward compatibility issues. Please check the upgrade guide if you are upgrading from 1.0.8 or lower versions.

We are proud to announce the alpha release of Yii Framework v1.1!

This release marks a major milestone in the Yii framework development. It includes many new significant features to the already powerful Yii framework. We added a PHPUnit-based testing framework so that developers can more easily write unit tests and functional tests; We added a form builder so that commonly used HTML forms can be built in terms of objects and thus enhance their reusability; We added support for changing skins for widgets globally; We also modified the way of performing relational ActiveRecord queries so that they are more intuitive and easier to use.

Besides all these core feature enhancements, we also started a new project called zii, which represents a set of official extensions for yii. The zii project will be under heavy development from now on, and we will include it in each of the 1.1 releases.

We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.9!

In this release, we fixed about a dozen of bugs and included more than twenty minor feature enhancements. In particular, we improved the performance of executing relational AR queries in a lazy way by avoiding unnecessary SQL JOINs. For a list of all enhancements and issues resolved in this release, please see change logs.

Upgrading to v1.0.9 should be safe except that you should pay attention to lazy loading related objects of an AR object. With the new change, the related table will no longer join with the primary table (since it already knows the primary key of it), you should avoid referencing the primary in the query options of the corresponding relation.

Since we posted the recruitment notice, we have received many applications for joining the Yii developer team. We hereby thank you all for your passion to join the team!

After serious discussion and investigation, we chose to have three new members: jonah, pestaa, sebas. They will work on the official extension library, core framework development, documentation and site development. With these new forces, we believe Yii will grow even faster and become better and better.

Welcome, new team members!

Our community member Imre Mehesz just released the episode 4 of his Yii Radio Podcast series. These casts cover the hot topics and recent activities about the Yii framework. You may check it out at yiiradiio.mehesz.net.

Another community member Sebastián Thierer is kindly enough to create and share this convenient Yii cheat sheet for every Yii user.

Thank you all for your continuous support and contribution to Yii!

As Yii is getting more and more popular, we are seeking new members to join our team to help make Yii better and better. We plan to recruit one to three new members depending on the qualification and availability of the applicants.

We have many interesting things to do, and we are awaiting the talented to join us and realize them.

Come to join us!

We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.8!

In this release, we fixed about a dozen of bugs and included more than twenty minor feature enhancements. We refactored the yiic shell commands so that they are easier to be extended. We enhanced caching components to support multiget. We also improved CCaptcha, CCompareValidator, CActiveRecord in several aspects. For a list of all enhancements and issues resolved in this release, please see change logs.

Upgrading to v1.0.8 should be safe except that you should pay attention to the change in the order of path alias importing. In particular, starting from v1.0.8, a directory imported using Yii::import() will have precedence over any existing include paths. For example, if we import 'application.models.*', then the corresponding directory will be searched before any other existing include paths. This also means, a directory imported later will have precedence over directories imported earlier. Previously, this order was reversed. This change may affect you if you have several classes with the same name and they are imported via different directories. You will need to adjust the import order of these directories to make sure your existing applications are not broken due to this change.

We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.7!

In this release, we included nearly thirty minor feature enhancements and bug fixes. A list of all enhancements and issues resolved in this release can be found in change log and the guide.

Thanks to all those who helped with bugs/features and those who participated in the Yii documentation project. And special thanks aztech and e_t_k who completed the Polish translation of the Yii blog tutorial.

Cheers!

After nearly five months' search, we finally found the ideal design that we are longing for. And that is the design proposed by Fred Wu. If you are interested in seeing how the new logo and page design look like, please check the forum post.

We hereby thank to people who proposed designs for Yii and people who gave valuable advices. We hope you like the new design. Feel free to let us know if you have any suggestions. Thank you!