Vitaliy Shulyak from 2amigos about optimizing performance of Yii 2 applications.

Yii 2 releases, Yii 3 progress, plans and thoughts on funding.

Changelog:

• Updated according to: 2.0.29
• Debug => 2.1.11
• Auth Client => 2.2.5
• Redis => 2.0.11
• MongoDB => 2.1.8
• HTTP client => 2.0.12
• Bootstrap 4 => 2.0.8
• ApiDoc => 2.1.8

Another update by Yii team. This time it's Yii 2 extension releases and insights about what happens with Yii 3.

Three extensions, framework release and a big pack of Yii 3 updates.

Hacktoberfest is a festival of OpenSource contribution that lasts for a month. To participate you need to register at the website and do four pull requests to OpenSource projects such as Yii before end of the month. First 50K participants are getting free t-shirts.

Useful post about PHPUnit data providers that is full of tips. Check comments as well.

Yii 2 behavior to publish resource updates to Mercure Hub automatically has been released. Its idea is to provide similar functionality as the one in API Platform.

Read more about this at Yii 2 Forum.

Yii 2 component for publishing updates to Mercure hub has been released.

Mercure is a protocol allowing to push data updates to web browsers and other HTTP clients in a convenient, fast, reliable and battery-efficient way. It is especially useful to publish real-time updates of resources served through web APIs, to reactive web and mobile apps.

Read more about Mercure at https://mercure.rocks

Yii 2 releases and interesting information about the next Yii.