It happened! Yii3 is officially released after years of intensive development and polishing.

Yii was always following the same principles of being performant, flexible but with good defaults, practice-oriented, simple, explicit, and consistent. Yii3 is not an exception.

While Yii 1.1 and Yii 2.0 are good frameworks, Yii3 was born to improve things even more, addressing the following drawbacks:

1. Yii 2.0 had a closed ecosystem with difficulties configuring general PHP packages.
2. Some magic and implicitness. Non-standard PHP behavior for objects introduced in Yii 2.0.
3. PHP standards compatibility and modern PHP usage were not in place due to backwards compatibility constraints.
4. Some anti-patterns, such as the service locator being available out of the box. That was affecting overall projects' testability and maintainability in the long run.

Yii Form Model version 1.1.0 was released. In this version:

• Add populateFromGet() and populateFromGetAndValidate() to FormHydrator
• Add PHP 8.5 support

Yii3 API project template version 1.1.0 was released. In this version:

• Add Makefile stop goal for stopping Docker containers (@samdark,
• Prune unused container and do not detach on make prod-deploy
• Add PHP 8.5 support
• Update composer dependencies

Cycle ORM query adapter for yiisoft/data version 1.0.0 was released.

There package provides Cycle ORM query adapter and writer for Yii Data.

See package documentation for usage.

Yii3 web application template version 1.1.0 was released. In this version:

• Add Makefile stop goal for stopping Docker containers
• Update structure in src/ directory
• Improve message for missing or invalid APP_ENV
• Remove <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> from layout

Yii RBAC Database storage 2.1.0

Yii RBAC DB version 2.1.0 was released. In this version:

• Adapt to Yii DB 2
• Change PHP constraint in composer.json to 8.1 - 8.5
• Refactor AssignmentStorage::filterUserItemNames() method
• Bump yiisoft/rbac version to ^2.1

Yii Event version 2.2.0 was released. In this version:

• Change PHP constraint in composer.json to 8.1 - 8.5
• Minor refactoring of CallableFactory and ListenerCollectionFactory
• Raise minimum PHP version to ^8.1 and refactor code

Yii Cache DB Handler version 1.1.0 was released. In this version:

• Bump supported version of yiisoft/db to ^2.0
• Change supported PHP versions to 8.1 - 8.5
• Mark DbSchemaManager::$db property as readonly

Yii Logging Library version 2.2.0 was released. In this version:

• Add optional $levels parameter to Target constructor allowing log level filtering at instantiation
• Add ext-psr to conflict section in composer.json

All targets were updated as well to allow $levels in constructor. Additionally:

• File Target 3.1.0 added categories, except and exportInterval setters to default config and replaced rotate by rename to rotate by copy.
• Syslog Target 2.1.0 removed dead code that checked case when syslog() returned false.

The first stable release of a powerful set of data displaying widgets is now available.

Yii DataView provides three flexible widgets for presenting data in web applications:

• ListView — display data as a customizable list.

Yii Data DB, a database query adapter for Yii Data, is now available.

This package provides a data reader implementation that bridges Yii DB with the Yii Data reading interface, making it easy to work with database queries in a flexible and consistent way.

• QueryDataReader. Wraps database queries to provide pagination, sorting, and filtering capabilities.

Yii Data 2 is now available, bringing major improvements and modernization to this package that provides generic data abstractions for reading, writing, and processing.

• PHP 8.1+ required: modernized codebase with readonly properties and improved type safety.

• Enhanced filtering: added Stringable support, nested value filtering, case-sensitive Like filter with matching modes, and new All/None filters.

Yii Middleware Dispatcher version 5.4.0 was released. In this version:

• Add support for using middlewares from container-registered identifier
• Add PHP 8.5 support

Yii HTML version 3.12.0 was released. In this version:

• Add Tag::addStyle() and Tag::removeStyle() methods
• Add Color class, Html::color() and Input::color() methods
• Add PHP 8.5 support
• Minor refactor RadioList::renderUncheckInput() and CheckboxList::renderUncheckInput() methods

Yii Caching Library version 3.2.0 was released. In this version:

• Add Ttl value object for working with time-to-live duration
• Add PHP 8.5 support

Yii DB Migration version 2.0.0 was released. In this version:

• Add --force-yes (-y) option to migrate:create, migrate:up, migrate:down and migrate:redo
• Use ColumnBuilder class to create table column definitions
• Change supported PHP versions to 8.1 - 8.5 (@Tigrov,
• Remove ext-filter from require section of composer.json

We are pleased to present the first stable release of Yii Active Record — an implementation of the Active Record pattern for PHP.

The package is built on top of Yii DB, which means it comes with out-of-the-box support for major relational databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, SQLite.

Flexible Model Property Handling

We're excited to announce Yii Database 2.0, a major release modernizing the database abstraction layer with PHP 8.1+ features, enhanced type safety, and powerful new capabilities. The drivers have been released as well: PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MSSQL, Oracle and SQLite.

New Features

• Implement ColumnInterface classes according to the data type of database table columns
  for type casting performance
• ConnectionProvider for connection management
• ColumnBuilder for column creation
• CaseX expression for CASE-WHEN-THEN-ELSE statements

Yii Test Support version 3.1.0 was released. In this version:

• Add PSR-20 static clock implementation
• Add PHP 8.5 support

Yii Files version 2.1.0 was released. In this version:

• Add filter option for FileHelper::clearDirectory()
• Change PHP constraint in composer.json to 8.0 - 8.5
• In PathMatcher::only() and PathMatcher::except() methods move a type hints from annotation
• Use FQN for built-in PHP functions, minor refactoring FileHelper and PathMatcher