CHANGELOG.md

Yii Framework 2 Change Log

2.0.0 beta under development

• 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: 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 accessable directories which resulted in endless loop (cebe)

• Bug: Fixed $model->load($data) returned true if $data and formName were empty (samdark)

• Enh #46: Added Image extension based on Imagine library (tonydspaniard)

• Enh #364: Improve Inflector::slug with intl transliteration. Improved transliteration char map. (tonydspaniard)

• 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 #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 #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 #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 #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: 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)

• 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 #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 #2057: AutoTimestamp attributes defaults changed from create_time and update_time to created_at and updated_at (creocoder)

• 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 #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: 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, 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: Renamed ActiveRecordInterface::createActiveRelation() to createRelation() (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

• New #66: Auth client library OpenId, OAuth1, OAuth2 clients (klimov-paul)

• 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 #2149: Added yii\base\DynamicModel to support ad-hoc data validation (qiangxue)

• New: Yii framework now comes with core messages in multiple languages

• New: Added yii\codeception\DbTestCase (qiangxue)

2.0.0 alpha, December 1, 2013

• Initial release.
• Official extensions released in this version:

  • Twitter bootstrap 3.0

  • Jquery UI

  • Debug Toolbar

  • Gii code generator

  • Elasticsearch integration: ActiveRecord and Query

  • Redis integration: ActiveRecord, Cache and Session

  • Sphinx integration: ActiveRecord and Query

  • Swiftmailer

  • Smarty View Renderer

  • Twig View Renderer