First release of Yii Runner was tagged. A runner hides application initialization details making configuration process easier.
For example, instead of complicated initialization, the following is enough for HTTP application's index.php:

As we greet a new year, WordPress’ Executive Director writes a letter to the project and community that speaks to the hopes of the year ahead.

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This week, Symfony fixed some issues related to PHP enums and improved the performance when using many environment variables in your application.