Thirteenth issue of Yii development notes was published. This time there's a good progress on both Yii 2.0 and 2.1, some updates to new Yii website, YiiPowered and a new article by Alexander Makarov.

August 26, 2017 YiiConf Indonesia will be held at Jakarta.

Venue is Mozilla Community Space, Gedung Tifa, Annex Suite JI. Kuningan Barat I No. 26, Mampang Prapatan, South of Jakarta.

Conference will open at 15:30 and finish at 19:00.

An update to admin template for Yii 2 based on Gentelella was released:

• Enh #25: Implemented another algorithm of sidebar state keeping (mohdqasim98)
• Enh #23: Added an ability to add custom buttons in Panel widget (SamMousa)
• Enh #20: Added an ability to make an active menu item via active attribute (fps01)
• Enh #22: Created Accordion widget (fps01)
• Fix #17: Fixed source paths for bower (MKiselev)
• Fix #15: Fixed an error "Jquery Error progressbar is not a function" (fps01)
• Fix #13: Make FlashAlert widget array compatible (al.gushchin)

P.S. Check UPGRADE.md file.

Yii team released SwiftMailer extension version 2.1.0 which uses latest version of SwiftMailer — 6.x.

Issue 12 of Yii development notes is out: queue extension is official now, tests are green again, 7.2 compatibility achieved. There is progress on 2.1 and new website. More interesting stuff happened.

Yii team officially adopted high quality queue extension made and maintained by Roman Zhuravlev.

Another issue of Yii development notes is out. Latest news from Yii development and interesting materials are waiting for you.

An extension provides a way to create URLs in JavaScript code using framework URL manager rules.

We have rolled out release 2.0.0 for WhatACart, an open source ecommerce platform. This has been a major release where the application architecture has been changed to be more in sync with Yii 2.0 framework so that it would be easier for developers and designers to get ramp up on the platform. Also it would allow developers to integrate extensions already available for Yii 2.0 into the platform very easily.

Junaid Atari maintains a repository where you can download Yii 2 guide and API docs in CHM, WebHelp and MS Word formats.