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.

Email templates module is an extension for creating of email templates and manage using your site dashboard.

Jeff Reifman started Yii meetup in Portland, Oregon.

First one will take place Tuesday, January 16, 2018 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at Palio 1996 SE Ladd Av.

If you're nearby, join it. Here's meetup page at meetup.com.

Last issue of Yii development news this year.

Yii team released Queue extension 2.0.2. It has bugfixes, new AMQP Interop driver, new events, better handling of POSIX signals and more.

Gii extension was updated with both bugfixes and a number of good enhancements.