Yii 2.0 is finally coming, after more than three years of intensive development with almost 10,000 commits by over 300 authors! Thank you for your support and patience!

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We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii 2.0 RC (Release Candidate). You may follow the instructions on yiiframework.com to install or upgrade to this version.

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We are releasing Yii 1.1.15 to fix a security issue found in 1.1.14. We urge all 1.1.14 users to upgrade their Yii to this latest release. Note that the issue only affects 1.1.14. All previous releases are not affected. Upgrading to this release from 1.1.14 is very safe and will not break your existing code.

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We are very pleased to announce the Beta release of Yii Framework version 2. You can download it from yiiframework.com.

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We are very pleased to announce the alpha release of Yii Framework version 2. You can download it from yiiframework.com.

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We are very pleased to announce that Yii Framework version 1.1.14 is released. You can download it at yiiframework.com/download/.

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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:

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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.

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We are very pleased to announce the release candidate of Yii Framework version 1.1.14. You can download it at GitHub.

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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.

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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.

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

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This is a April Fool news

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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!

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

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.13. You can download it from the Yii project site at

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You probably heard about a good WYSIWYG editor called Imperavi Redactor or even tried it. If you like it, there's a good news for you. Our excellent community funded buying Redactor OEM license so now it can be used for free for any Yii-based product.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.13 Release Candidate. You may download it from the following page:

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We just have two new Yii books published: "Web Application Development with Yii and PHP", and "The Yii Book".

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Since the last release (Yii 1.1.12), we have accumulated 31 bug fixes, 39 enhancements and 6 updates. It's time for us to prepare for the next release: Yii 1.1.13.

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