This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing various bugs across its entire codebase and implementing some minor new features for the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 49 pull requests were merged (49 in code and 0 in docs) and 24 issues were closed (32 in code and 2 in docs). Excluding merges, 23 authors made 1,970 additions and 656 deletions. See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog:
9606430: [PropertyInfo] support for the nev
This week, Symfony announced the end of the Swiftmailer project in favor of the Symfony Mailer project. Meanwhile, the bundles doc section introduced a redesign that will be used in the future in the entire Symfony docs section.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 39 pull requests were merged (37 in code and 2 in docs) and 26 issues were closed (21 in code and 5 in docs). Excluding merges, 13 authors made 4,664 additions and 1,967 deletions. See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog:
The Symfony Mailer component was released for the first time in Symfony 4.3, released in May 2019. Since then, we have worked on improving it by adding more third-party providers and adding some missing features that were already available in Swiftmailer, like DKIM support and email signing. As of Symfony 5.3, all Swiftmailer great features and more are available in Symfony Mailer. Now comes the time to officially end the maintenance of Swiftmailer in favor of Symfony Mailer. I've set the end of
This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 deprecated some helper methods in AbstractController which weren't strictly related to HTTP. In addition, it deprecated the remaining usages of anonymous users in the Security system. Finally, a new Path class was added to the Filesystem component to ease the handling of file paths.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 52 pull requests were merged (30 in code and 22 in docs) and 31 issues were closed (22 in code and 9 in docs). Excluding merges, 19 auth
This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version added new integrations to the Notifier component, marked the Request::get() method as internal and introduced a smooth upgrade path for security factories. In addition, the free community-provided Symfony support was moved to GitHub Discussions.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 50 pull requests were merged (40 in code and 10 in docs) and 41 issues were closed (36 in code and 5 in docs). Excluding merges, 31 authors made 1,805 additions and 2
Open Source Symfony Support is provided by the community via StackOverflow and Slack. Both have served us well for some years, but they lack some features that are increasingly important for us. StackOverflow is nice for async support and its discussions stay forever and can be found via Google, but it lacks advanced formatting tools, better moderation and GitHub integration (to ping users, mention issues, etc.) Slack is nice for sync support, where you need a quick and live reply to your questi
This week, Symfony 4.4.29, 5.2.14 and 5.3.6 maintenance versions were released. This was the last release for the 5.2.x branch; if your projects are still using it, please consider upgrading them to Symfony 5.3..
Symfony development highlights
This week, 53 pull requests were merged (34 in code and 19 in docs) and 38 issues were closed (35 in code and 3 in docs). See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog:
6f2df38: [WebProfilerBundle] fix a Twig filter error in Mailer panel 192e36
Symfony 5.2.14 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #42307 [Mailer] Fixed decode exception when sendgrid response is 202 (@rubanooo) bug #42296 [Dotenv][Yaml] Remove PHP 8.0 polyfill (@derrabus) bug #42289 [HttpFoundation] Fixed type mismatch (@Toflar)
Want to upgrade to this new release? Because Symfony protects backwards-compatibility very closely, this should be quite easy. Use SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need t
Symfony 5.3.6 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #42307 [Mailer] Fixed decode exception when sendgrid response is 202 (@rubanooo) bug #42296 [Dotenv][Yaml] Remove PHP 8.0 polyfill (@derrabus) bug #42274 [VarDumper] HtmlDumper::setDumpHeader() accepts null (@rrpadilla) bug #42289 [HttpFoundation] Fixed type mismatch (@Toflar) bug #42259 [Security] fix Check if it has session before getSession() (@mousezheng)
Want to upgrade to this new
Symfony 4.4.29 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #42307 [Mailer] Fixed decode exception when sendgrid response is 202 (@rubanooo) bug #42296 [Dotenv][Yaml] Remove PHP 8.0 polyfill (@derrabus) bug #42289 [HttpFoundation] Fixed type mismatch (@Toflar)
Want to upgrade to this new release? Because Symfony protects backwards-compatibility very closely, this should be quite easy. Use SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need t
