#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.

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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.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Gii extension version 2.0.8.

Additionally to bug fixes, there is a new option in model generator that allows standardized capitals in class names:

SOME_TABLE -> SomeTable
Other_Table -> OtherTable

instead of

SOME_TABLE -> SOMETABLE
Other_Table -> OtherTable

See the CHANGELOG for details.

Another issue of development notes is out. Learn about Yii 3.0 development, written down Yii values and other things.