2020 was a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the personal and professional lives of millions of people. Symfony was no exception and we struggled at times during this year. Nonetheless, thanks to your help and support, we won through and 2020 was a good year for Symfony, all things considered.
Releases¶ We released two new major versions: Symfony 4.1 in May and Symfony 5.2 in November. We also published 59 maintenance versions in six different branches (3.4, 4.3, 4.4, 5.0, 5.1
Symfony development highlights
This week, 33 pull requests were merged (20 in code and 13 in docs) and 49 issues were closed (44 in code and 5 in docs). See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog:
18927fe: [Intl] updated the ICU data to 68.2 64cc4d8: [ProxyManagerBridge] fixed PHP notice and switched to "friendsofphp/proxy-manager-lts" 457c8b1: [Mailer] handle failure when sending the DATA command 018e33a: [VarDumper] fixed displaying 'mixed' as '?mixed' 0ed
This week, Symfony 4.4.18, [5.1.10](Symfony 5.1.10 released) and [5.2.1](Symfony 5.2.1 released) maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the pre-conference workshops for the next Symfony conferences were announced. Lastly, a special Christmas Sale was announced for all certifications.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 67 pull requests were merged (51 in code and 16 in docs) and 76 issues were closed (51 in code and 25 in docs). See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog:
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Symfony 5.2.1 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #39555 [FrameworkBundle] Fix NFS detection on macOs (@jderusse) bug #39545 [Notifier] [Mattermost] Host is required (@OskarStark) bug #39548 [Notifier] [Infobip][Zulip] Host is required (@OskarStark) bug #39550 [HttpFoundation] keep turning dots to underscores when using Request::create() (@nicolas-grekas) bug #39538 [Notifier] Fix parsing Dsn with empty user/password (@OskarStark) bug #3
Symfony 4.4.18 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #39531 [Mailer] Fix parsing Dsn with empty user/password (@OskarStark) bug #39518 [Ldap] Incorrect determination of RelativeDistinguishedName for the “move” operation (@astepin) bug #39476 [Lock] Prevent store exception break combined store (@dzubchik) bug #39433 [Cache] fix setting “rea _timeout” when using Redis (@nicolas-grekas) bug #39420 [Cache] Prevent notice on case matching metadata
Symfony 5.1.10 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #39545 [Notifier] [Mattermost] Host is required (@OskarStark) bug #39538 [Notifier] Fix parsing Dsn with empty user/password (@OskarStark) bug #39531 [Mailer] Fix parsing Dsn with empty user/password (@OskarStark) bug #39518 [Ldap] Incorrect determination of RelativeDistinguishedName for the “move” operation (@astepin) bug #39510 [Notifier] [Free Mobile] Could not use custom host in DS
We’ve recently announced our Online SymfonyTour for the first semester of 2021. All Call for Papers are currently open, send in your talk proposals!
Each online conference comes with 2 days of online pre-conference workshops, organized on the days before the conference. We’re pleased to announce the pre-conference workshop topics, either 2-day workshops or a combo of two 1-day workshop:
Mastering OOP & Design Patterns (2-day workshop): Object Oriented Programming (OOP) goes beyond the des
Lastly, we've announced our upcoming Online SymfonyTour for the first semester of 2021. We are pleased to organize 5 online conferences at the first semester of 2021. Among the 5 conferences, we have 4 online conferences dedicated to local Symfony communities.
A Polish Online Conference: SymfonyLive Online Poland 2021 A French Online Conference: SymfonyLive Online France 2021 A German Online Conference: SymfonyLive Online Germany 2021 A Spanish Online Conference: SymfonyLive Online Spain 2021
You missed our Black Friday sale on all our certifications? You were probably too busy attending SymfonyWorld 2020 and forgot to buy your certification voucher! Well, good news then, we’re offering a special Christmas Sale on all certifications until December 21st 2020!
Get 30% off all Symfony and Twig certifications using the code CERTIF_30_XM. Your certification voucher is valid for a year from the date of purchase. Buy it now and take the exam when you are ready: tomorrow, in a week or next
This week, Symfony published the videos of the SymfonyWorld Online 2020 conference, allowing attendees to watch all the talks again. As a bonus, two of those videos, related to Symfony UX were published for free. In addition, Symfony published the upcoming online conferences for 2021, which will be organized in Polish, French, German and Spanish.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 108 pull requests were merged (88 in code and 20 in docs) and 52 issues were closed (37 in code and 15 in d
