This week, Symfony 5.4.0 BETA3 and 6.0.0 BETA3 versions were published so you can test them on your applications before their final release at the end of the month. In addition, the Symfony Core Team added four new members to help grow the Symfony project in the next few years.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 81 pull requests were merged (52 in code and 29 in docs) and 49 issues were closed (36 in code and 13 in docs). Excluding merges, 43 authors made 5,841 additions and 2,323 deletions. See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog:
6a60cfc: never rely on dynamic PHP properties 94ff309: [Cache] fix dbindex Redis e70ad34: [Process] intersect with getenv() to populate default envs da00866: [Serializer] fix support for unset properties on PHP < 7.4 17e5244: [Serializer] fix support for lazy properties b643481: [Serializer] return unique attributes in PropertyNormalizer extractAttributes function eee7b80: [TwigBridge] do not merge label classes into expanded choice labels 38f3c12: [Yaml] properly parse quoted strings tagged with !!str bfc8b1e: [HttpClient, Mime] add correct IDN flags for IDNA2008 compliance
5.3 changelog:
56798bd: [Translation] generate id parameter instead of letting Loco do it ca1a431: [FrameworkBundle] fix API gateway service name 86deb3c: [FrameworkBundle] remove FlattenExceptionNormalizer definition if serializer not available 22e688b: remove more dynamic properties a09c139: [FrameworkBundle] fix default PHP attributes support in validation and serializer configuration when doctrine/annotations is not installed with PHP 8 2e950c6: [Tests] remove some unused fixtures
5.4 changelog:
f98024f: [FrameworkBundle] deprecate notifier service aliases that don't follow the convention feb75f3: [DependencyInjection] fix creating second container instances f7d70f1: [Cache] fix releasing not acquired locks 814dd27: [Cache] decrease the probability of invalidation loss on tag eviction 6f8b029: [Cache] fix calculate TTL in couchbase sdk 3.0 a0d778e: allow AbstractDoctrineExtension implementations to support the newer bundle structure 8ca777b: [Security] make ExpressionVoter Cacheable a8bee28: [FrameworkBundle] add framework config for DBAL cache adapter 4106530: [DependencyInjection] fix preloading 678b0cd: [Serializer] add a setter on DateTimeNormalizer to change the default context at runtime 5ae859d: [Doctrine bridge] allow autodetecting mapping type for any object bde6c09: [WebProfilerBundle] prevent installation of incompatible mailer component versions ff92249: [Security] mark Guard as incompatible with Symfony 6
6.0 changelog:
ba6de87: [SecurityBundle] remove outdated conditions based on authenticatorManagerEnabled 93d643c: [FrameworkBundle] remove code relating to old StoreInterface 66829fc: remove obsolete PHP version checks
Symfony CLI
Symfony CLI is a must-have tool when developing Symfony applications on your local machine. It includes the Symfony Local Server, the best way to run local Symfony applications. This week Symfony CLI released its new 4.26.9 version with the following changes:
Add a --webapp flag to symfony new to create a project with some recommended packages and configuration for web applications Deprecate --expose-env-vars on tunnel:open in favor of var:expose-from-tunnel Fix some panics
Newest issues and pull requests
[RFC] New component HtmlSanitizer [Security] Allow definition of a custom RequestMatcher in access control rules like in firewalls [Secrets] Extract in other repository [Mailer] Ability to specify message size
SymfonyCasts Updates
SymfonyCasts is the official way to learn Symfony. Select a track for a guided path through 100+ video tutorial courses about Symfony, PHP and JavaScript.
These were some of the most relevant SymfonyCasts updates of the week:
(Video) Symfony 5 Security, Chapter 19: form_login: The Built-in Authenticator (Video) Symfony 5 Security, Chapter 20: More form_login Config (Video) Symfony 5 Security, Chapter 21: Denying Access in a Controller (Video) Symfony 5 Security: Authenticators, Chapter 22: Dynamic Roles (Video) Symfony 5 Security: Authenticators, Chapter 23: The Special ISAUTHENTICATED Strings
They talked about us
Using PHP 8.1 enumerations in Symfony Symfony Station Communique - 19 November 2021. A Look at Symfony and PHP News. How to create a custom CLI and use it in Symfony (part1) How to create a custom CLI and use it in Symfony (part2) What if we define validations rules in the routing configuration Deploy Sylius to Heroku Mastering Doctrine ORM relations Symfony 5: The Fast Track Contrôlez la qualité de vos projets PHP & Symfony à l’aide des GitHub Actions Оптимистическая блокировка коллекций Агрегата при использовании Doctrine
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