We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.12. You can download it from the Yii project site at

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The recent update of DHTMLX, a JavaScript component library, introduces the possibility to integrate the client-side DHTMLX components with the Yii framework. DHTMLX delivers a rich collection of user interface components including rich-featured data grid, treeview, event calendar, and other.

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We are very glad to have a new member joining our developer team. His name is Carsten Brandt and his forum ID is CeBe. CeBe is from Germany and has been a veteran Web developer for many years. He has been actively participating in the discussion and fixing various Yii issues. All these contributions demonstrate his deep understanding of Yii and excellent technical skills. We believe his joining the team will help push forward Yii even faster. Welcome!

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.11. In this release, we've included more than 100 enhancements and bug fixes.

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The first Yii conference called YiiConf 2012 was held on May 19 in Kiev, Ukraine. It gathered more than 200 people from Yii Russian-speaking community. Since it was in Russian, we didn't announce it at yiiframework.com. The conference went extremely successful. We hereby are sharing some information with you.

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It's official now: Yii is on GitHub! We also switched to use GitHub issue tracker. Existing issues have already been imported into it.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.10. This release mainly fixes several critical bugs in CActiveForm, CJuiDatePicker, and yiilite.php that were introduced in release 1.1.9. For the complete list of changes in this release, please refer to the change log.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.9. In this release, we've included nearly 60 enhancements and bug fixes.

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PACKT publishing released the second book about Yii authored by core team member Alexander Makarov (samdark). This book is a recipe book about Yii. It contains 13 indepen­dent chapters full of material that will show you how to use Yii efficiently.

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Eclipse PDT got Yii support. It's implemented by Yii community member KEo. Features implemented are new Yii project wizard and views navigation (Controller → View, Controller → Layout, ListView → itemView, view → view partial, component → component's view). Additionally to what PDT already have these features will help you to speed up development even more.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.8. In this release, we included more than 80 new features, enhancements and bug fixes.

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CodeLobster today announced their latest version 3.8 which includes a plugin for supporting the Yii framework.

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PACKT publishing announced the second book about Yii authored by core team member Alexander Makarov (samdark). This book is of cookbook type featuring a lot of recipes that will allow you to learn more things not mentioned in the guide as well as to understand framework better.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.7. In this release, we included more than 90 new features, enhancements and bug fixes.

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Jeffery Winesett just made the last screencast in his Yii tutorial series. In this tutorial, he shows how to use the database to store and retrieve message content.

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We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii Framework version 1.1.6. This new version is now available for download from the Yii site:

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Jeffery Winesett just made a new screencast about Yii. It shows how to connect to a database and quickly create basic GUI-based CRUD functionality against a database table. More screencasts are coming. Please keep an eye on it.

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Jeffery Winesett just made a new screencast showing how to set up Yii development environment and create the first Yii Web application. More screencasts are coming. Please keep an eye on it.

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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:

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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!

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