• Yii 2 beta Released on April 13. Official press-release is great in details, you should definitely read it through. Russian press-release.
• Official docs for Yii 2.0

• Yii2 now follow PSR-2. Yes "Space" intendation wins. Now tools like PHPCodeSniffer will work with Yii2 better.

  It is not about pro-contra features, it's just about having the same standard across the PHP world.

• Dependecy Injection container out of the box. Yii2 is not migrating completely to DI concepts, but gives you an utility class for DI in your app.

• Introduced universal URL helper class. Samdark made a good explanation in Russian in his blog also in Beta release notes it has good usage examples. Very handy helper class!
• Remastered RBAC. Biz rules are separate classes now, no eval.
• Conditional validators. Custom anonymous function when could be use with all validators to have additional control on validator usage. Also whenClient for a client side.
• REST Api got more improvements, but still something left fot RC and GA releases.
• Added ContentNegotiator to support response format and language negotiation
• Added separate bootstrap ability to init different Classes on each App run. Similar to former preload, but now it is unified way for Extensions and Components.
• Added loadDefaultValues for AR Model. As a generic way to set default values and not overuse "default" validator or custom init.
• More consistent AR find() usage. Introduced findOne and findAll.
• Ability to use Gii via CLI
• Added yii\web\ViewAction that allow render views based on GET parameter, aka Static Pages
• Added PrefixUrlRule that represents a collection of URL rules sharing the same prefix in their patterns and routes.. It is best used by a module which often uses module ID as the prefix for the URL rules.
• There will no be offficial out of the box integration with Bower. It's considered not a server-side framework core issue - and I am agree with it. In any case thos who need it - will find a way to use with his tools stack.
• Non official examples of custom app structures

Uses https://github.com/lepture/editor - "a markdown editor you really want".

I am using this editor on my blog and prefer it over EpicEditor. It's much handy to write posts with realtime basic highlight of Markdown syntax.

Demo

on http://lab.lepture.com/editor/

Yii2 widget for Svbtle style Kudos. Based on JS from https://github.com/masukomi/kudos

Demo

On posts details page of my blog or original JS widget demo

Supported Social Networks

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google+
• Vkontakte
• LinkedIn
• Send to Kindle

EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor

Frankly, I was using EpicEditor for the last 4 months in my blog, but now I will switch to http://lab.lepture.com/editor/ as I find it more handy. And publish EpicEditor extension just not to loose it at all. Feel free to enhance and fork it!

Demo

you can see on http://epiceditor.com