Version 1.1 alpha

Congratulations on the just released alpha release Yii 1.1!

Almost a year has passed since the release of Alpha 1.0. So the new release can be called the event of the year in the Yii development world. According to the developers, this version includes many new remarkable features of an already powerful framework.

What's new

• Added PHPUnit-based testing framework, which makes it easier to write and use unit and functional tests.
• Added a form-builder, which is designed to make it easy to simplify life when creating HTML-forms and their subsequent use. True, the details are not yet clear.
• Also added support for widget skins in a global context. This will allow within the same template to display widgets in different variations.
• Changed the way that ActiveRecord related queries are executed, they are now more intuitive and easy to use.
• Improved the way to specify secure attributes of models.
• As well as a number of other changes that have affected the behavior of certain classes.

More details about the innovations can be found here:
www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/changes
www.yiiframework.com/files/CHANGELOG-1.1a.txt

Meet Zii

Along with these improvements to the core of the system, a new project was also launched called Zii , which will contain a set of official extensions for Yii. The project is now being intensively developed and will already be included in each release of the 1.1 branch.
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Transition from 1.0 to 1.1

This early alpha is not yet intended to complete the work. And if your websites with Yii work fine inside, you are not recommended to switch from 1.0 to 1.1 yet.

However, if you still want to upgrade (or at least prepare for it), the instructions are prepared for you:
www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/upgrade
www.yiiframework.com/files/UPGRADE-1.1a.txt

upd. Well, of course, you can always download the latest versions of the framework at www.yiiframework.com/download