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.

It was recently announced that the Yii website was defaced, but until recently we were still investigating. Here are some details about what happened and what was affected:

1. The website's index.php was compromised through a vulnerability in the separate forum software (IPB, not Yii).
2. Neither the website's code nor Yii framework code was involved or part of the attack in any way. Hence, the security of the Yii framework remains as secure today as it was yesterday.
3. No framework downloads were affected, as the Yii framework source code is hosted externally.

Although we're storing passwords encrypted and are salting hashes, we may request you to change your forum account password soon.

Earlier today it was discovered that the entry page on the Yii website had been defaced. The website was restored in less than an hour from discovery of this event, and we are currently investigating the cause of it.

At this point we do not expect any of the Yii framework source code to have been affected, as the source code for the framework is hosted on external systems (GitHub and Google Code) which to our knowledge has not been affected.

As an extra precaution we do however recommend that if you downloaded a copy of the framework via the main website (www.yiiframework.com) earlier today, you delete that copy and download it again. The purpose of this is to be certain that the copy is really downloaded from Google Code and/or GitHub, even though there are no signs of downloads or source code having been affected by the defacement.

We will continue our investigation and take appropriate action once we have more information.

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.

We are very pleased to announce that Yii 2 is now available for public preview at GitHub. This is a major milestone during the Yii 2 development which was started more than two years ago and has since undergone complete rewrite.

Note that Yii 2 is still under heavy development. We may introduce significant changes without prior notices. So please do not use it for production.

We sincerely invite you to review and play around the code, and give us feedback. We also welcome you to participate in developing Yii 2.

You may keep an eye on the following Yii 2 resources:

• Yii 2 code repository
• Yii 2 issue tracker
• Yii 2 design discussions

Second edition of the Yii Application Development Cookbook by Alexander Makarov will be available in a few weeks. In the new version many recipes were updated and rewritten to reflect latest Yii and PHP world changes and improve overall experience. Additionally all errata from the first edition was fixed.

It features some brand new recipes:

• Rendering content at the client side
• Leveraging HTTP caching
• Using Composer with Yii

You can learn much more about the book on its companion website. Feel free to discuss it at the forums.

Yii plugin adds useful enhancements to NetBeans IDE including the following:

• Code completion in views (including variables passed to view and $this).
• Go To Action, Go To View.
• Go to view via clicking on render or renderPartial argument.
• Go to file via clicking on path alias (Yii::import, widget, beginWidget, createWidget, beginCache).

This is a April Fool news

We are very pleased to announce our decision on Yii2 development. Starting April 1st, 2013, the existing Yii2 code will be rewritten using Ruby programming language. Current PHP code will be left as is. After months of consideration, we have decided that Ruby compliments Yii2 better than PHP does.

We will do our best to make transition as easy as possible; you do not need to worry about potential migration problems.

Cheers! The Yii Developer Team

We are very glad to announce that we have two new members joining our Yii development team: Timur Ruziev and Paul Klimov. If you are following the Yii development activities on GitHub, you may already know them very well. Both Timur and Paul are very devoted to Yii and have excellent technical skills. We believe their joining the team will help push forward Yii even faster. Welcome!

YiiStorm is a plugin for PhpStorm IDE that is adding code navigation enhancements for Yii framework based projects.

Features are:

• Going from render and renderPartial to the view file. Includes controllers, partials and widgets. Supports all ways of specifying a view: themes, smarty .tpl views and external actions.
• Going from model name in relations() to the model class.
• Going from the $this->widget('path.to.widget.Class') call to the widget class.
• Going from controller actions() to action class.

You can install the plugin either directly from PhpStorm IDE settings or from mazx.ru.

If you have issues, feature requests or want to help developing it the project itself is at github. To leave feedback and just say thanks for this great addition use our forums.