Yii Framework 2 Change Log

2.0.0-rc under development

  • Bug #1263: Fixed the issue that Gii and Debug modules might be affected by incompatible asset manager configuration (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2563: Theming is not working if the path map of the theme contains “..” or “.” in the paths (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2801: Fixed the issue that GridView gets footer content before data cells content (ElisDN)
  • Bug #2853: ActiveRecord did not handle resource-typed columns well (chris68, qiangxue)
  • Bug #3042: yii\widgets\Pjax should end application right after it finishes responding to a pjax request (qiangxue)
  • Bug #3066: yii\db\mssql\Schema::getTableSchema() should return null when the table does not exist (qiangxue)
  • Bug #3091: Fixed inconsistent treatment of Widget::run() when a widget is used as a container and as a self-contained object (qiangxue)
  • Bug #3118: Ensure client validation has the same behavior as server side validation for number validator (cebe)
  • Bug #3121: yii\base\Application::bootstrap may fail to load some components if they are specified as class names (qiangxue)
  • Bug #3125: yii\console\controllers\AssetController now respects data URL resources (klimov-paul)
  • Bug #3128: Fixed the bug that defaultRoles set in RBAC manager was not working as specified (qiangxue)
  • Bug #3153: Fixed the bug that using “between” operator to build a SQL query will cause a PHP notice (gonimar)
  • Bug #3184: Fixed the bug that client validation for string length comparison did not set error message correctly (Sergeygithub)
  • Bug #3194: Date formatter works only for timestamps in the year range 1970 to 2038 (kartik-v)
  • Bug #3204: yii\di\Container did not handle the $config parameter well in case when it does not have a default value (qiangxue)
  • Bug #3216: Fixed the bug that yii.activeForm.destroy() did not remove submit event handlers (qiangxue)
  • Bug #3236: Return value for DateTime->format(‘U’) casted to double to allow correct date formatting (pgaultier)
  • Bug #3268: Fixed the bug that the schema name in a table name was not respected by yii\db\mysql\Schema (terazoid, qiangxue)
  • Bug #3311: Fixed the bug that yii\di\Container::has() did not return correct value (mgrechanik, qiangxue)
  • Enh #2264: CookieCollection::has() will return false for expired or removed cookies (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2837: Error page now shows arguments in stack trace method calls (samdark)
  • Enh #2906: Added support for using conditional comments for js and css files registered through asset bundles and Html helper (exromany, qiangxue)
  • Enh #2942: Added truncate and truncateWord methods (Alex-Code, samdark)
  • Enh #3008: Added Html::errorSummary() (qiangxue)
  • Enh #3088: The debug and gii modules will manage their own URL rules now (hiltonjanfield, qiangxue)
  • Enh #3103: debugger panel is now not displayed when printing a page (githubjeka)
  • Enh #3108: Added yii\debug\Module::enableDebugLogs to disable logging debug logs by default (qiangxue)
  • Enh #3132: yii\rbac\PhpManager now supports more compact data file format (qiangxue)
  • Enh #3154: Added validation error display for GridView filters (ivan-kolmychek)
  • Enh #3222: Added useTablePrefix option to the model generator for Gii (horizons2)
  • Enh #3230: Added yii\filters\AccessControl::user to support access control with different actors (qiangxue)
  • Enh #3252: Added support for case insensitive matching using ILIKE to PostgreSQL QueryBuilder (cebe)
  • Enh #3298: Supported configuring View::theme using a class name (netyum, qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added support for using sub-queries when building a DB query with IN condition (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Supported adding a new response formatter without the need to reconfigure existing formatters (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added yii\web\UrlManager::addRules() to simplify adding new URL rules (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added support to insert an event handler at the beginning of class-level event handler queue (qiangxue)
  • Chg #3036: Upgraded Twitter Bootstrap to 3.1.x (qiangxue)
  • Chg #3175: InvalidCallException, InvalidParamException, UnknownMethodException are now extended from SPL BadMethodCallException (samdark)
  • Chg: Replaced clearAll() and clearAllAssignments() in yii\rbac\ManagerInterface with removeAll(), removeAllRoles(), removeAllPermissions(), removeAllRules() and removeAllAssignments() (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Added $user as the first parameter of yii\rbac\Rule::execute() (qiangxue)
  • Chg: yii\grid\DataColumn::getDataCellValue() visibility is now public to allow accessing the value from a GridView directly (cebe)
  • Chg: yii\data\ActiveDataProvider::$query will not be modified directly with pagination and sorting anymore so it will be reuseable (cebe)

2.0.0-beta April 13, 2014

  • Bug #1265: AssetController does not override ‘js’ and ‘css’ for compressed bundles (klimov-paul)
  • Bug #1326: The visible setting for DetailView doesn’t work as expected (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1412: FileValidator and ImageValidator still trigger uploadRequired error in some case when skipOnEmpty is true and no upload is provided (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1446: Logging while logs are processed causes infinite loop (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1497: Localized view files are not correctly returned (mintao)
  • Bug #1500: Log messages exported to files are not separated by newlines (omnilight, qiangxue)
  • Bug #1504: Debug toolbar isn’t loaded successfully in some environments when xdebug is enabled (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1509: The SQL for creating Postgres RBAC tables is incorrect (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1545: It was not possible to execute db Query twice, params where missing (cebe)
  • Bug #1550: fixed the issue that JUI input widgets did not property input IDs.
  • Bug #1654: Fixed the issue that a new message source object is generated for every new message being translated (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1582: Error messages shown via client-side validation should not be double encoded (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1591: StringValidator is accessing undefined property (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1597: Added enableAutoLogin to basic and advanced application templates so “remember me” now works properly (samdark)
  • Bug #1631: Charset is now explicitly set to UTF-8 when serving JSON (samdark)
  • Bug #1635: yii\jui\SliderInput wasn’t properly initialized (samdark)
  • Bug #1659: MSSQL doesn’t support limit (Ana1oliy)
  • Bug #1686: ActiveForm is creating duplicated messages in error summary (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1704: Incorrect regexp is used in Inflector::camelize() (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1710: OpenId auth client does not request required attributes correctly (klimov-paul)
  • Bug #1798: Fixed label attributes for array fields (zhuravljov)
  • Bug #1800: Better check for $_SERVER['HTTPS'] in yii\web\Request::getIsSecureConnection() (ginus, samdark)
  • Bug #1812: Hide potential warning message due to race condition occurring to Session::regenerateID() call (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1827: Debugger toolbar is loaded twice if an action is calling run() to execute another action (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1868: Added ability to exclude tables from FixtureController apply/clear actions. (Ragazzo)
  • Bug #1869: Fixed tables clearing. TRUNCATE changed to DELETE to avoid postgresql tables checks (and truncating all tables) (Ragazzo)
  • Bug #1870: Validation errors weren’t properly translated when using clientside validation (samdark)
  • Bug #1930: Fixed domain based URL matching for website root (samdark)
  • Bug #1937: Fixed wrong behavior or advanced app’s init --env when called without parameter actually specified (samdark)
  • Bug #1959: Html::activeCheckbox wasn’t respecting custom values for checked/unchecked state (klevron, samdark)
  • Bug #1965: Controller::findLayoutFile() returns incorrect file path when layout name starts with a slash (qiangxue)
  • Bug #1992: In module scenario that use ‘site/captcha’ will get wrong refreshUrl (callmez)
  • Bug #1993: afterFind event in AR is now called after relations have been populated (cebe, creocoder)
  • Bug #1998: Unchecked required checkbox never pass client validation (klevron)
  • Bug #2084: AssetController adjusting CSS URLs declared at same line fixed (klimov-paul)
  • Bug #2091: QueryBuilder::buildInCondition() fails to handle array not starting with index 0 (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2160: SphinxQL does not support OFFSET (qiangxue, romeo7)
  • Bug #2209: When I18N message translation is missing source language is now used for formatting (samdark)
  • Bug #2212: yii\gridview\DataColumn generates incorrect labels when used with nosql DB and there is no data (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2298: Fixed the bug that Gii controller generator did not allow digit in the controller ID (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2303: Fixed the bug that yii\base\Theme::pathMap did not support dynamic update with path aliases (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2324: Fixed QueryBuilder bug when building a query with “query” option (mintao)
  • Bug #2399: Fixed the bug that AssetBundle did not handle relative URLs correctly (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2502: Unclear error message when $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is empty (samdark)
  • Bug #2519: MessageSource removed translation messages when event handler was bound to missingTranslation-event (cebe)
  • Bug #2527: Source language for app message category was always en no matter which application sourceLanguage was used (samdark)
  • Bug #2559: Going back on browser history breaks GridView filtering with Pjax (tonydspaniard)
  • Bug #2571: Fixed the bug that batchInsert will fail for SQLite if the values contain null or boolean false (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2607: yii message tool wasn’t updating message table (mitalcoi)
  • Bug #2624: Html::textArea() should respect “name” option. (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2653: Fixed the bug that unsetting an unpopulated AR relation would trigger exception (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2681: Fixed the bug of php build-in server https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66606 (dizews)
  • Bug #2683: Fixed the bug that batchInsert will fail for MySQL if the values contain boolean false (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2695: Fixed the issue that FileValidator::isEmpty() always returns true for validate multiple files (ZhandosKz)
  • Bug #2739: Fixed the issue that CreateAction::run() was using obsolete Controller::createAbsoluteUrl() method (tonydspaniard)
  • Bug #2740: Fixed the issue that CaptchaAction::run() was using obsolete Controller::createUrl() method (tonydspaniard)
  • Bug #2760: Fixed GridView filterUrl parameters (qiangxue, AlexGx)
  • Bug #2834: When overriding i18n translation sources from config using app* or yii* default app and yii sources were not removed (samdark)
  • Bug #2848: Individual queries should be enclosed within parenthesis in a UNION query (qiangxue)
  • Bug #2862: Using DbCache while enabling schema caching may cause infinite loops (qiangxue)
  • Bug #3052: Fixed the issue that cache dependency data is not reused when reusable is set true (qiangxue)
  • Bug: Fixed Call to a member function registerAssetFiles() on a non-object in case of wrong sourcePath for an asset bundle (samdark)
  • Bug: Fixed incorrect event name for yii\jui\Spinner (samdark)
  • Bug: Json::encode() did not handle objects that implement JsonSerializable interface correctly (cebe)
  • Bug: Fixed issue with tabular input on ActiveField::radio() and ActiveField::checkbox() (jom)
  • Bug: Fixed the issue that query cache returns the same data for the same SQL but different query methods (qiangxue)
  • Bug: Fixed URL parsing so it’s now properly giving 404 for URLs like http://example.com//////site/about (samdark)
  • Bug: Fixed HelpController::getModuleCommands issue where it attempts to scan a module’s controller directory when it doesn’t exist (jom)
  • Bug: Fixed an issue with FileHelper and not accessible directories which resulted in endless loop (cebe)
  • Bug: Fixed $model->load($data) returned true if $data and formName were empty (samdark)
  • Bug: Fixed issue with ActiveRelationTrait preventing ActiveQuery from clearing events and behaviors on clone (jom)
  • Bug: Query::queryScalar wasn’t making SELECT DISTINCT queries subqueries (jom)
  • Bug: Fixed use $files instead of self::$_files[$key] to allow inheritance (pgaultier)
  • Enh #46: Added Image extension based on Imagine library (tonydspaniard)
  • Enh #364: Improve Inflector::slug with intl transliteration. Improved transliteration char map. (tonydspaniard)
  • Enh #497: Removed \yii\log\Target::logUser and added \yii\log\Target::prefix to support customizing message prefix (qiangxue)
  • Enh #499: Decoupled Rule from RBAC Item (samdark, qiangxue)
  • Enh #797: Added support for validating multiple columns by UniqueValidator and ExistValidator (qiangxue)
  • Enh #802: Added support for retrieving sub-array element or child object property through ArrayHelper::getValue() (qiangxue, cebe)
  • Enh #938: Added yii\web\View::renderAjax() and yii\web\Controller::renderAjax() (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1293: Replaced Console::showProgress() with a better approach. See Console::startProgress() for details (cebe)
  • Enh #1406: DB Schema support for Oracle Database (p0larbeer, qiangxue)
  • Enh #1437: Added ListView::viewParams (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1467: Added support for organizing controllers in subdirectories (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1469: ActiveRecord::find() now works with default conditions (default scope) applied by createQuery (cebe)
  • Enh #1476: Add yii\web\Session::handler property (nineinchnick)
  • Enh #1499: Added ActionColumn::controller property to support customizing the controller for handling GridView actions (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1523: Query conditions now allow to use the NOT operator (cebe)
  • Enh #1535: Improved yii\web\User to start session only when needed. Also prepared it for use without session. (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1562: Added yii\bootstrap\Tabs::linkOptions (kartik-v)
  • Enh #1572: Added yii\web\Controller::createAbsoluteUrl() (samdark)
  • Enh #1579: throw exception when the given AR relation name does not match in a case sensitive manner (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1581: Added ActiveQuery::joinWith() and ActiveQuery::innerJoinWith() to support joining with relations (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1585: added schema parameter to createAbsoluteUrl() to force ‘http’ or ‘https’ (cebe)
  • Enh #1601: Added support for tagName and encodeLabel parameters in ButtonDropdown (omnilight)
  • Enh #1611: Added BaseActiveRecord::markAttributeDirty() (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1633: Advanced application template now works with MongoDB by default (samdark)
  • Enh #1634: Use masked CSRF tokens to prevent BREACH exploits (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1641: Added BaseActiveRecord::updateAttributes() (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1646: Added postgresql QueryBuilder::checkIntegrity and QueryBuilder::resetSequence (Ragazzo)
  • Enh #1645: Added Connection::$pdoClass property (Ragazzo)
  • Enh #1645: Added support for nested DB transactions (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1681: Added support for automatically adjusting the “for” attribute of label generated by ActiveField::label() (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1706: Added support for registering a single JS/CSS file with dependency (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1773: keyPrefix property of Cache is not restricted to alnum characters anymore, however it is still recommended (cebe)
  • Enh #1809: Added support for building “EXISTS” and “NOT EXISTS” query conditions (abdrasulov)
  • Enh #1839: Added support for getting file extension and basename from uploaded file (anfrantic)
  • Enh #1852: ActiveRecord::tableName() now returns table name using DbConnection::tablePrefix (creocoder)
  • Enh #1881: Improved yii\bootstrap\NavBar with containerOptions, innerContainerOptions and renderInnerContainer (creocoder)
  • Enh #1894: The path aliases @webroot and @web are now available right after the application is initialized (qiangxue)
  • Enh #1921: Grid view ActionColumn now allow to name buttons like {controller/action} (creocoder)
  • Enh #1973: yii message/extract is now able to generate .po files (SergeiKutanov, samdark)
  • Enh #1984: ActionFilter will now mark event as handled when action run is aborted (cebe)
  • Enh #2002: Added filterWhere() method to yii\db\Query to allow easy addition of search filter conditions by ignoring empty search fields (samdark, cebe)
  • Enh #2003: Added filter property to ExistValidator and UniqueValidator to support adding additional filtering conditions (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2008: yii message/extract is now able to save translation strings to database (kate-kate, samdark)
  • Enh #2043: Added support for custom request body parsers (danschmidt5189, cebe)
  • Enh #2051: Do not save null data into database when using RBAC (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2054: Added support for using custom application configuration with the console command runner (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2079:
    • i18n now falls back to en from en-US if message translation isn’t found (samdark)
    • View now falls back to en from en-US if file not found (samdark)
    • Default sourceLanguage and language are now en (samdark)
  • Enh #2101: Gii is now using model labels when generating search (thiagotalma)
  • Enh #2102: DetailView now allow use category.name as attribute name (creocoder)
  • Enh #2102: DetailView now allow use custom label in string format like name:format:label (creocoder)
  • Enh #2103: Renamed AccessDeniedHttpException to ForbiddenHttpException, added new commonly used HTTP exception classes (danschmidt5189)
  • Enh #2124: Added support for UNION ALL queries (Ivan Pomortsev, iworker)
  • Enh #2132: Allow url of CSS and JS files registered in yii\web\View to be url alias (cebe)
  • Enh #2144: Html helper now supports rendering “data” attributes (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2156: yii migrate now automatically creates migrations directory if it does not exist (samdark)
  • Enh #2211: Added typecast database types into php types (dizews)
  • Enh #2240: Improved yii\web\AssetManager::publish(), yii\web\AssetManager::getPublishedPath() and yii\web\AssetManager::getPublishedUrl() to support aliases (vova07)
  • Enh #2325: Adding support for the X-HTTP-Method-Override header in yii\web\Request::getMethod() (pawzar)
  • Enh #2364: Take into account current error reporting level in error handler (gureedo)
  • Enh #2387: Added support for fetching data from database in batches (nineinchnick, qiangxue)
  • Enh #2392: Added addCssStyle(), removeCssStyle(), cssStyleFromArray() and cssStyleToArray() to Html (qiangxue, kartik-v, Alex-Code)
  • Enh #2406: Added support for conditional validation (drenty, cebe, qiangxue)
  • Enh #2411: Added Gii extension generator (schmunk42)
  • Enh #2415: Added support for inverse relations (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2417: Added possibility to set dataType for $.ajax call in yii.activeForm.js (Borales)
  • Enh #2436: Label of the attribute, which looks like relatedModel.attribute, will be received from the related model if it available (djagya)
  • Enh #2490: yii\db\Query::count() and other query scalar methods now properly handle queries with GROUP BY clause (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2491: Added support for using the same base class name of search model and data model in Gii (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2499: Added ability to downgrade migrations by their absolute apply time (resurtm, gorcer)
  • Enh #2525: Added support for formatting file sizes with yii\base\Formatter (VinceG)
  • Enh #2526: Allow for null values in batchInsert (skotos)
  • Enh #2646: Added support for specifying hostinfo in the pattern of a URL rule (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2661: Added boolean column type support for SQLite (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2670: Changed console\Controller::globalOptions() to options($actionId) to (make it possible to) differentiate options per action (hqx)
  • Enh #2714: Added support for formatting time intervals relative to the current time with yii\base\Formatter (drenty)
  • Enh #2726: Added yii\db\ActiveRecord::loadDefaultValues() that fills default values from DB schema (samdark)
  • Enh #2729: Added FilterValidator::skipOnArray so that filters like trim will not fail for array inputs (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2735: Added support for DateTimeInterface in Formatter (ivokund)
  • Enh #2756: Added support for injecting custom isEmpty check for all validators (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2775: Added yii\base\Application::bootstrap and yii\base\BootstrapInterface to support running bootstrap classes when starting an application (qiangxue)
  • Enh #2892: ActiveRecord dirty attributes are now reset after call to afterSave() so information about changed attributes is available in afterSave-event (cebe)
  • Enh #2910: Added Application::end() (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added support for using arrays as option values for console commands (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added favicon.ico and robots.txt to default application templates (samdark)
  • Enh: Added Widget::autoIdPrefix to support prefixing automatically generated widget IDs (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Support for file aliases in console command ‘message’ (omnilight)
  • Enh: Sort and Pagination can now create absolute URLs (cebe)
  • Enh: Added support for using array-typed arguments for console commands (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added support for installing packages conforming to PSR-4 standard (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Better exception message when class cannot be loaded (samdark)
  • Enh: init of advanced application now allows to specify answer for overwriting files via init --overwrite=n (samdark)
  • Enh: Added TableSchema::fullName property (qiangxue)
  • Enh: yii\codeception\TestCase now supports loading and using fixtures via Yii fixture framework (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added ability to get incoming headers (dizews)
  • Enh: Added beforeRun() and afterRun() to yii\base\Action (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added support for using timeZone with yii\base\Formatter (dizews)
  • Enh: Added yii\web\View::POS_LOAD (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added yii\web\Response::clearOutputBuffers() (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Improved QueryBuilder::buildLimit() to support big numbers (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added support for building SQLs with sub-queries (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added Pagination::getLinks() (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added support for reading page size from query parameters by Pagination (qiangxue)
  • Enh: LinkPager can now register relational link tags in the html header for prev, next, first and last page (cebe)
  • Enh: Added yii\web\UrlRuleInterface and yii\web\CompositeUrlRule (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added yii\web\Request::getAuthUser() and getAuthPassword() (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added summaryOptions and emptyTextOptions to BaseListView (johonunu)
  • Enh: Implemented Oracle column comment reading from another schema (gureedo, samdark)
  • Enh: Added support to allow an event handler to be inserted at the beginning of the existing event handler list (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Improved action filter and action execution flow by supporting installing action filters at controller, module and application levels (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added isAssociative() and isIndexed() to yii\helpers\ArrayHelper (qiangxue)
  • Enh: Added addSelect to yii\db\Query (Alex-Code)
  • Enh: Added ODBC support in yii\db\Connection (nineinchnick, resurtm)
  • Chg #47: Changed Markdown library to cebe/markdown and adjusted Markdown helper API (cebe)
  • Chg #735: Added back ActiveField::hiddenInput() (qiangxue)
  • Chg #1186: Changed Sort to use comma to separate multiple sort fields and use negative sign to indicate descending sort (qiangxue)
  • Chg #1519: yii\web\User::loginRequired() now returns the Response object instead of exiting the application (qiangxue)
  • Chg #1564: Removed yii\web\Session::autoStart and added hasSessionId. Session will be automatically started when accessing session data (qiangxue)
  • Chg #1586: QueryBuilder::buildLikeCondition() will now escape special characters and use percentage characters by default (qiangxue)
  • Chg #1610: Html::activeCheckboxList() and Html::activeRadioList() will submit an empty string if no checkbox/radio is selected (qiangxue)
  • Chg #1643: Added default value for Captcha::options (qiangxue)
  • Chg #1796: Removed yii\base\Controller::getActionParams() (samdark)
  • Chg #1835: CheckboxColumn now renders checkboxes whose values are the corresponding data key values (qiangxue)
  • Chg #1821: Changed default values for yii\db\Connection username and password to null (cebe)
  • Chg #1844: Response::sendFile() and other file sending methods will not send the response (qiangxue)
  • Chg #1852: DbConnection::tablePrefix default value now ‘tbl_’ (creocoder)
  • Chg #1958: beforeSubmit in yii.activeform is now executed after validation and before form submission (6pblcb)
  • Chg #2025: Removed ability to declare scopes in ActiveRecord (samdark)
  • Chg #2043:
    • Renamed yii\web\Request::acceptedLanguages to acceptableLanguages (qiangxue)
    • Removed yii\web\Request::getPost(), getPut(), getDelete(), getPatch() in favor of getBodyParam() (cebe)
    • Renamed yii\web\Request::get() to getQueryParams() and getRestParams() to getBodyParams() (cebe)
    • Added yii\web\Request::get($name = null, $defaultValue = null) and yii\web\Request::post($name = null, $defaultValue = null) (samdark)
  • Chg #2059: Implemented git-flavored file excluding/filtering for FileHelper (nineinchnick)
  • Chg #2063: Removed yii\web\Request::acceptTypes and renamed yii\web\Request::acceptedContentTypes to acceptableContentTypes (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2103: Renamed AccessDeniedHttpException to ForbiddenHttpException (danschmidt5189)
  • Chg #2146: Removed ActiveRelation class and ActiveRelationInterface, moved the functionality to ActiveQuery.
    1.        All relational queries are now directly served by `ActiveQuery` allowing to use custom scopes in relations
    2.        and also to declare arbitrary queries as relations.
    3.        Also removed `ActiveRecordInterface::createActiveRelation()` (cebe)
  • Chg #2157: The ‘*’ category pattern will match all categories that do not match any other patterns listed in I18N::translations (qiangxue, Ragazzo)
  • Chg #2161: Added ability to use return in Widget::run (samdark)
  • Chg #2173: Removed StringHelper::diff(), Moved phpspec/php-diff dependency from yiisoft/yii2 to yiisoft/yii2-gii (samdark)
  • Chg #2175: QueryBuilder will now append UNION statements at the end of the primary SQL (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2210: Mysql driver will now treat tinyint(1) as integer instead of boolean (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2248: Renamed yii\base\Model::DEFAULT_SCENARIO to yii\base\Model::SCENARIO_DEFAULT (samdark)
  • Chg #2281: Renamed ActiveRecord::create() to populateRecord() and changed signature. This method will not call instantiate() anymore (cebe)
  • Chg #2405: The CSS class of MaskedInput now defaults to form-control (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2426: Changed URL creation method signatures to be consistent (samdark)
  • Chg #2516: Moved error handling from application to ErrorHandler class and fixed problems with HTTP Exception response code (cebe)
    • Yii::$app->exception has now moved to Yii::$app->errorHandler->exception
    • yii\base\ErrorHandler was split into yii\web\ErrorHandler and yii\console\ErrorHandler
  • Chg #2544: Changed DetailView‘s name:format:label to attribute:format:label to match GridView (samdark)
  • Chg #2603: yii\base\ErrorException now extends \ErrorException (samdark)
  • Chg #2629: Module::controllerPath is now read only, and all controller classes must be namespaced under Module::controllerNamespace. (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2630: API changes for URLs generation (samdark, qiangxue, cebe)
    • Added yii\helpers\Url.
    • Removed yii\helpers\Html::url, use yii\helpers\Url::to instead.
    • Removed yii\web\Controller::createUrl and yii\web\Controller::createAbsoluteUrl, use yii\helpers\Url::toRoute instead.
    • Removed yii\web\Controller::getCanonicalUrl, use yii\helpers\Url::canonical instead.
  • Chg #2691: Null parameters will not be included in the generated URLs by UrlManager (gonimar, qiangxue)
  • Chg #2734: FileCache::keyPrefix defaults to empty string now (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2796: Removed Application::preload in favor of Application::bootstrap (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2816: Changed default date and time format of yii\base\Formatter to Y-m-d and H:i:s (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2911: Removed tbl_ default for table prefix (samdark)
  • Chg #2912: Relative view files will be looked for under the directory containing the view currently being rendered (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2955: Changed the signature of ActiveQuery constructors and replaced ActiveRecord::createQuery() with find() to simplify customizing ActiveQuery classes (qiangxue)
  • Chg #2999: Added findOne() and findAll() to replace the usage of ActiveRecord::find($condition). (samdark, qiangxue)
  • Chg: Renamed yii\jui\Widget::clientEventsMap to clientEventMap (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Renamed ActiveRecord::getPopulatedRelations() to getRelatedRecords() (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Renamed attributeName and className to targetAttribute and targetClass for UniqueValidator and ExistValidator (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Added yii\widgets\InputWidget::options (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Changed the signature of urlCreator and button creators for yii\gridview\ActionColumn (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Updated HTMLPurified dependency to 4.6.*.
  • Chg: Changed Yii autoloader to support loading PSR-4 classes only (i.e. PEAR-styled classes not supported anymore) (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Changed the directory structure according to PSR-4. You have to update your application index.php,
    1.  `index-test.php` and `yii` files to point to the new location of `Yii.php` (qiangxue, cebe)
  • Chg: Advanced app template: moved database connection DSN, login and password to -local config not to expose it to VCS (samdark)
  • Chg: Renamed yii\web\Request::acceptedLanguages to acceptableLanguages (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Removed implementation of Arrayable from yii\Object (qiangxue)
  • Chg: The scripts in asset bundles are now registered in View at the end of endBody(). It was done in endPage() previously (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Renamed csrf-var to csrf-param for CSRF header name (Dilip)
  • Chg: The directory holding email templates is renamed from mails to mail (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Renamed properties fooVar to fooParam for various classes (qiangxue)
    • Renamed ActiveForm::ajaxVar to ajaxParam
    • Renamed Pagination::pageVar to pageParam
    • Renamed Sort::sortVar to sortParam
    • Renamed yii\web\Request::csrfVar to csrfParam
    • Renamed yii\web\Request::methodVar to methodParam
    • Renamed UrlManager::routeVar to routeParam
    • Renamed yii\web\Session::flashVar to flashParam
    • Renamed yii\web\User::idVar to idParam
    • Renamed yii\web\User::authTimeoutVar to authTimeoutParam
    • Renamed yii\web\User::returnUrlVar to returnUrlParam
  • Chg: Added View::viewFile and removed ViewEvent::viewFile (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Changed Controller::afterAction(), Module::afterAction() and ActionFilter::afterAction() to pass $result by value instead of reference (qiangxue)
  • Chg: yii\base\Extension::init() is renamed to bootstrap() (qiangxue)
  • Chg: getComponent() and setComponent() in Application and Module are renamed to get() and set() respectively. (qiangxue)
  • Chg: The signature of Yii::createObject() is changed. Constructor parameters must be passed as the second parameter. (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Yii::$objectConfig is removed. You should use Yii::$container->set() to configure default settings of classes. (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Removed yii\grid\Column::getDataCellContent() and renamed yii\grid\DataColumn::getDataCellContent() to yii\grid\DataColumn::getDataCellValue() (cebe)
  • Chg: yii\log\Logger is split into yii\log\Logger and yii\log\Dispatcher. (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Moved all filter classes to namespace yii\filters (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Re-implemented RBAC by following more closely to the original NIST RBAC model. Dropped yii\rbac\PhpManager. (qiangxue)
  • Chg: Renamed yii\web\User::checkAccess() to yii\web\User::can() (qiangxue)
  • New #66: Auth client library OpenId, OAuth1, OAuth2 clients (klimov-paul)
  • New #303: Added built-in support for REST API (qiangxue)
  • New #503: Added yii\di\Container and yii\di\ServiceLocator (qiangxue)
  • New #706: Added yii\widgets\Pjax and enhanced GridView to work with Pjax to support AJAX-update (qiangxue)
  • New #1393: Codeception testing framework integration (Ragazzo)
  • New #1438: MongoDB integration ActiveRecord and Query (klimov-paul)
  • New #1956: Implemented test fixture framework (qiangxue)
  • New #2034: Added ContentNegotiator to support response format and language negotiation (qiangxue)
  • New #2149: Added yii\base\DynamicModel to support ad-hoc data validation (qiangxue)
  • New #2360: Added AttributeBehavior and BlameableBehavior, and renamed AutoTimestamp to TimestampBehavior (lucianobaraglia, qiangxue)
  • New #2932: Added yii\web\ViewAction that allow you to render views based on GET parameter (samdark)
  • New #2998: Added framework\log\SyslogTarget that is able to write log to syslog (miramir, samdark)
  • New #3029: Added yii\bootstrap\ActiveForm and yii\bootstrap\ActiveField (mikehaertl)
  • New: Yii framework now comes with core messages translated into 26 languages, many thanks to all our translators!
  • New: Added yii\codeception\DbTestCase (qiangxue)
  • New: Added yii\web\GroupUrlRule (qiangxue)
  • New: Added yii\filters\RateLimiter (qiangxue)
  • New: Added various authentication methods, including HttpBasicAuth, HttpBearerAuth, QueryParamAuth, and CompositeAuth (qiangxue)
  • New: Added HtmlResponseFormatter and JsonResponseFormatter (qiangxue)

2.0.0-alpha, December 1, 2013