New year is coming and it is time for last issue of development notes this year.

Despite being a short issue, there are gems to look for.  Happy new year everyone!

Yii 2.0

We haven't released another 2.0 version this year but it is really close. I will try finishing it in the beginning of the year.

Extensions and infrastructure

• Yii guide is now available in Chinese and Japanese. I want to thank community for doing translations. You are awesome!
• ApiDoc 2.1.1
• Gii 2.0.8
• Both 2.0 Gii and Debug were made dependency-free asset-wise. That's good for installation time, compatibility and, when ported to Yii 3.0 will allow better package separation. Thanks goes to @simialbi.

Yii 3.0

• You can try Yii 3.0 
• Mehdi Achour put together a good summary of Yii 3.0 in our wiki and then created Yii 3 Kitchen Sink. Both are worth checking.
• Framework-idependent Mutex library was extracted from 2.0 codebase
• Carsten started yii-dev, a set of tools to conveniently contribute to 3.0 version of the framework

Other news

• PHP 7.3.0 released
• PSR-18 was accepted

Reading list

I stumbled upon a good article (Equal) web application performance that I definitely can recommend reading.

Besides that one of my article drafts finally was finished so you can now read about Naming things.