Yii team released Auth Client extension version 2.1.8.

It fixes a redirect bug in LinkedIn provider, changes Google client to use Google Sign-in API instead of Google Plus and adds two enhancements for AuthAction:

• Ability to configure user component used.
• Ability to to pass buildAuthUrl params to OAuth flows.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

#yii2tech 'ar-softdelete' extension 1.0.3 released adding SoftDeleteQueryBehavior allowing records filtering using "soft delete" criteria.

#yii2tech 'ar-eagerjoin' extension 1.0.2 released adding alias specification support for EagerJoinQueryTrait::eagerJoinWith().

#yii2tech 'spreadsheet' extension 1.0.3 released fixing Spreadsheet::send() fail for 'Xlsx' writer.

#yii2tech 'config' extension 1.0.7 released. Changes are the following:

• Fixed StorageActiveRecord does not trigger ActiveRecord flow events.
• Added options for customizing column names to StorageDb and StorageActiveRecord.

#yii2tech 'sitemap' extension 1.0.2 released bringing two enhancements:

• Sitemap file name added to the message of the "max entries exceed" exception.
• Sitemap files now skip rendering of the optional tags if their value is null.

#yii2tech 'html2pdf' extension 1.0.5 released bringing a fix for temporary file removal on Windows.

Updating via composer is available as usual.

Last issue of Yii development notes this year. Do not miss it.

Read tips about PHP frameworks and Yii from Yii 2 co-author Alexander Makarov.

The PHP development team released version 7.3.0 that comes with numerous improvements and new features such as

• Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntax
• PCRE2 Migration
• Multiple MBString Improvements
• LDAP Controls Support
• Improved FPM Logging
• Windows File Deletion Improvements
• Several Deprecations

The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog. The migration guide is available in the PHP Manual.

Both Yii 2.0 and upcoming Yii 3.0 releases will be comatible with new PHP release.