Another issue of Yii development notes was posted summing up what happened in 2018 so far and giving some interesting links to check.

Yii team released 2.0.14 version of the framework. It's the last version of 2.0 with enhancements on board and there are many. From now on team will focus on 2.1.

Yii team released another version of Bootstrap extension version 2.0.8 which both fixes bugs and makes small enhancements.

See CHANGELOG for details.

Klimov Paul's yii2tech extensions got two releases.

First, html2pdf 1.0.2 got support for recent mPDF versions and adds support for boolean and array options for wkhtmltopdf.

Second, first release of spreadsheet was made. The extension helps you Texport data to a spreadsheet such as Excel, LibreOffice etc.

Three extension releases were tagged by Paul Klimov:

• MongoDB 2.1.5
• Sphinx 2.0.10
• HTTP Client 2.0.6

Door Nico Stapelbroek and Stefan van Essen wrote a good case by case summary of configuring and using Xdebug. Useful for any PHP developer.

Three yii2tech extensions were updated:

• file-storage 1.1.4
• csv-grid 1.0.3
• ar-linkmany 1.0.3

Intl is used in i18n layer of Yii 2.0 for getting data, formatting strings and performing translations. It is uprated separately from PHP itself and it's as trivial as installing a package so the article is very useful.

With this extension you can share data from your web pages to any social network.

Main features:

• SEO support
• Default font icons for social networks
• Easy creation of custom drivers for other social networks

Yii team released Auth Client extension version 2.1.5 which brings 3 enhancements and bug fixes:

• Updated endpoint URLs for LinkedIn.
• AuthAction refactored to use yii\web\Application::$request for request data access.
• Added yii\authclient\AuthAction::$cancelCallback allowing custom handling for authentication cancellation.

See the CHANGELOG for details.