Yii Framework version 2.0.18 was released. It fixes some bugs. No known changes that could affect existing applications were made.

A complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGELOG.

Since OpenCollective campaign is almost there allowing one core team member focusing on the project, Yii team are ready to start tagging releases more. From now on every Tuesday is "release day" and overall policy is the following:

• Extension releases are tagged every week if there are changes since last release.
• Main framework package release is tagged about once a month if there are changes since last release.

First release day brought us following releases:

• Smarty 2.0.8
• HTTP client 2.0.8
• Auth client 2.2.0

Larry Garfield posting on events PSR recently released. So far there are six posts:

• A major event in PHP
• All about Events
• Being a good Provider
• Advanced Providers
• Compound Providers
• Example - Access voting

By the way, we have our own implementation that is likely to be used for Yii 3.

An extension support implementing multi factor authenticate base on Spomky-Labs/otphp wrapper for Yii2 user component.

PHP 8 JIT FAQ. Interesting read for everyone who cares about PHP future.

This release includes a few PHP 7 compatibility fixes and security improvements.

An interesting blog post about the case when storing date and time in the timezone it originates from is a better idea than converting it to UTC or unix timestamp.

Yii team released Debug extension version 2.1.1.

This version fixes some bugs including accessibility ones and adds multiple enhancements:

• The toolbar is now resizeable. Default height could be set in the configuration.
• Module pageTitle property added. It allows setting page title to be used.
• The color contrast of the toolbar was improved.

See the CHANGELOG for details.

Fresh issue of Yii development notes is out:

• OpenCollective and Patreon
• Official way to support Yii by funding it
• Yii 2.0 extension releases
• Yii 3.0
• Processes
• PSR-12

Yii team launched OpenCollective page introducing an ability to support Yii with donations.