https://opencollective.com/yiisoft/updates/yii-1-yii-2-0-31-and-yii-3-progress
Hello everyone! We were silent for a month working on all the versions of the framework. Here’s what we have so far.
Yii 1
Code from master branch passed all tests on PHP 7.4 immediately. That was quite
a surprise. There are still some issues about PHP 7 compatibility in the issue
tracker. After checking these we’re going to tag another release.
Yii 2.0.31
New release of Yii 2 was done.
It includes multiple bugfixes and two enhancements. One is about adding Forwarded
header support to Request proxy configuration. Another is about expanding support
of Yii 3 style container configuration.
But the main highlight of the release is PHP 7.4 compatibility. That was not easy
to achieve it without losing old PHP 5 versions support. It took significant amount
of time to explore possibilities and finally we’ve managed to solve it.
Yii 3
Overall development goes forward but not as fast as I was hoping. It seems overall
release time estimate was too optimistic but I still think we’ll be able to tag some
of the Yii 3 packages and make it easier to try new version by providing a proper
application template. It may happen either before 2020 or at the very start of
the year.
Now, to the summary of what was done since November.
Concepts, discussions, tutorials
Code
Code was updated accordingly.
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Emitter is now outputting body as a stream avoiding memory issues for large content.
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Yii development tool was improved in many ways making it way more convenient to develop Yii 3.
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Router got groups support and then it was improved.
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Somogyi Márton did experimental split of view layer in separate repository.
We are preparing to get good parts of it into Yii 3.
Documentation
Internal guideline corrections
Overall infrastructure
- We’ve migrated travis from .org to .com. There are still some leftovers but
when we’ll clear these, there will be less confusion about where the build for
a package is.
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Status page was updated with current Yii 3 packages.
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Release cycle page was updated with PHP versions support.
Funding
We’ve participated in GitHub beta funding program together with GitHub team
and managed to set it up properly. Also set up Tidelift
so now there are two more options to help Yii by filling its development fund.
Tidelift is helpful in another way. They have handy checklists such as providing
link to reporting security issues from each repository. While improving the meta
some mistakes were found and fixed in Yii repositories.
The issue with it is that it’s not as transparent as OpenCollective but I promise
to reduce my invoices to OpenCollective by the amount got via Tidelift. Hopefully
that would allow to get more people doing nearly full-time Yii development. If
you want to spend more time on Yii 3 but can’t because of financial reasons,
please contact me (Alexander Makarov) and we’ll try to arrange something.
Thank you!
I’d like to thank all backers and contributors making Yii 3 possible. We are moving
it forward together.
Personal thanks to Somogyi Márton, roxblnfk,
Pavel Ivanov, Dmitriy Derepko, thenotsoft who made excellent pull requests.
for the great work. And I wish everyone Merry Christmas!