Whats New on Yii 3.0?

[mkimani09 (Mike Kimani)]

Whats New on Yii3. that wasn’t on the other Yii versions? What should we expect? any performance improvements?

[jiuly256 (Jiuly Rojas)]

Yii 3.0 packages list

Yii 3.0 is more divided into packages compared to how it was in 2.0. That would allow us to make more independent releases and give contributors more permissions to maintain their packages of interest. To end users it would mean ability to use what they need for the current project i.e. REST API w/o any web stuff or console-only application. Here’s the list of packages we have so far: https://github.com/yiisoft/docs/blob/master/packages.md

[samdark (Alexander Makarov)]

Check UPGRADE and CHANGELOG to have some idea.

[softark]

UPGRADE is a very loooong list.
Do you recommend the upgrading of the existing Yii 2 projects to Yii 3?

[samdark (Alexander Makarov)]

Now? Definitely not. Later - maybe if you are going to develop these projects for next 5-10 years.

Even Yii 1.1 despite not getting any bug fixes or features, it still maintained security-wise and compatibility-wise so 2.0 will live for quite some time.

[softark]

OK, I will probably try to rewrite my Yii 1.1 app from scratch using Yii 3.