Yii news 2020, issue 1

https://opencollective.com/yiisoft/updates/yii-news-2020-issue-1

Hello everyone! This is a first update of the year and I hope you’re starting
the year as productively as we are. I’ve decided to name this year updates in
the spirit of paper magazines. This way these will be a bit more distinguishable
from each other and I won’t spend time on thinking hard about title :slight_smile:

Yii 1.1, Yii 2 and extensions

We’ve got some releases:

Yii 3

Additionally, Wilmer Arambula tried to port
Yii 2 database abstraction layer. For
now it just an experiemnt but in the future it may turn into something useful.
We aren’t going to use a single DBAL in Yii 3 allowing multiple choice and plan
to start with Cycle ORM out of the box.

Funding

Since there’s now extra funding via Tidelift, I’ve called to spending time
on Yii instead commericial work
.
The experiment went fine with roxblnfk.
Extra time allowed him to contribute to Cycle ORM integration, web package enhancements,
configs concept (not yet merged), subfolder middlware and minor fixes.

Since it proved to work well, I plan to seek to major PHP companies for more funding.
Ideally that would allow to form a small team dedicated to framework development.
That would speed things up very significantly.

Thank you!

I’d like to thank all backers and contributors making Yii 3 possible. We are moving it forward together.

Special thanks for Yii 3 code contributions goes to:

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When can we expect the beta version of Yii3?

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This year, I hope. It works overall already but needs serious polishing.

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