We are very pleased to announce the alpha release of Yii Framework version 2. You can download it from yiiframework.com.

Yii 2 is a complete rewrite of Yii - one of the most popular PHP frameworks. Yii 2 inherits the main spirit behind Yii for being a simple, fast and highly extensible PHP framework. Yii 2 exploits the latest language features available in PHP 5.4 and embraces the best practices found in modern Web application development. For a complete description of the features offered by Yii 2, please check out The Definitive Guide and The Guide of Upgrading from Yii 1.1.

The alpha release of Yii 2 marks a major milestone in the course of Yii 2 development. It means that the code base of Yii 2 has reached a certain degree of stability. If you just start to learn Yii or you do not have a tight project schedule, you may consider using Yii 2. Please do not use Yii 2 in production as we may still introduce significant changes without prior notices.

Over the past two years, we have received tremendous contributions to Yii 2 from our community. We hereby thank every contributor for making this release possible.

We are very pleased to announce that Yii Framework version 1.1.14 is released. You can download it at yiiframework.com/download/.

In this release, we fixed more than 80 bugs and introduced more than 60 minor enhancements and features. We added CPasswordHelper that provides secure and up to date way to store and verify password hashes; We added CRedisCache to support using Redis for caching purpose; and Yii can now be installed as a Composer package. For the complete list of changes in this release, please see the change log.

We have received significant contributions to this release from our community users (e.g. creocoder, tom--, paystey, Ragazzo, antoncpu, Yiivgeny) to this release. We hereby thank their effort in making this release available.

We are very pleased to announce the release candidate of Yii Framework version 1.1.14. You can download it at GitHub.

In this release, we fixed more than 80 bugs and introduced more than 60 minor enhancements and features. We added CPasswordHelper that provides secure and up to date way to store and verify password hashes; We added CRedisCache to support using Redis for caching purpose; and Yii can now be installed as a Composer package. For the complete list of changes in this release, please see the change log.

We have received significant contributions to this release from our community users (e.g. creocoder, tom--, paystey, Ragazzo, antoncpu, Yiivgeny) to this release. We hereby thank their effort in making this release available.