Yii framework 3.0.0 – Major Alfa Release

On June 10th, 2018 was released the first alfa version of the new major update to the Yii framework 3.0.0

New in Yii 3.0

• Package “ezyang/htmlpurifier” has been made optional and is not installed by default
• Yii autoloader is removed in favor of Composer’s PSR-4 implementation
• Removed HHVM-specific code
• Removed APC support in ApcCache, APCu works as before
• The behavior of yii\grid\DataColumn::$filterInputOptions is changed when the default value is overwritten
• Moved masked input field widget into separate extension https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-maskedinput
• Mail message composition extracted into the separate class,yii\mail\Composer which setup is available via yii\mail\BaseMailer::$composer
• Renamed yii\base\InvalidParamException to yii\base\InvalidArgumentException
• Updated the fallback date formats used when no intl extension is installed to match the defaults of the latest ICU version
• Removed XCache and Zend data cache support as caching backends
• Updated yii\widgets\ActiveField::hint() method signature to match label()
• Removed yii\base\Object::className() in favor of native PHP syntax ::class, which does not trigger autoloading
• Minimum required version of PHP is 7.1 now
• Consistent behavior of run() method in all framework widgets. All return the result now for better extensibility
• Signature of yii\web\RequestParserInterface::parse() changed to accept yii\web\Requestinstance as a sole argument
• CUBRID database support removed
• PJAX support removed
• Packages ‘captcha’, ‘jquery’, ‘rest’, ‘mssql’ and ‘oracle’ have been extracted into extensions
• Removed methods marked as deprecated in 2.0.x

Enhancements in Yii 3.0

• Use random_int() instead of mt_rand() to generate cryptographically secure pseudo-random integers
• objects yii\helpers\ReplaceArrayValue, yii\helpers\UnsetArrayValue now support restoring after being exported with var_export() function
• Added yii\web\AssetConverter::$isOutdatedCallback allowing a custom check for outdated asset conversion result
• Added serialization abstraction layer under yii\serialize\* namespace
• Added support for PSR-3 ‘Logger’
• optimized yii\filters\AccessController on processing access rules
• Add $checkAjax parameter to method yii\web\Controller::redirect() which controls redirection in AJAX and PJAX requests
• Mail view rendering encapsulated into yii\mail\Template class allowing rendering in isolation and access to yii\mail\MessageInterface instance via $this->context->message inside the view
• CAPTCHA rendering logic extracted into yii\captcha\DriverInterface, which instance is available via yii\captcha\CaptchaAction::$driver field
• yii\web\Request::getBodyParams() now generates 415 ‘Unsupported Media Type’ error on invalid or missing ‘Content-Type’ header
• The result of yii\web\Request::getBodyParams() now includes uploaded files
• Uploaded file retrieve methods have been moved from yii\http\UploadedFile to yii\web\Request
• Added support for PSR-7 ‘HTTP Message’
• Caching implementation refactored according to PSR-16 ‘Simple Cache’ specification

You can download and test the latest release here

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