
Symfony 4.4.31 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #43158 [Cache] Fix invalidating tags on Redis <5 (@wouterj) bug #43179 [Ldap] Fix resource type checks & docblocks on PHP 8.1 (@chalasr) bug #43137 [FrameworkBundle] Avoid secrets:decrypt-to-local command to fail (@noniagriconomie) bug #43171 [VarDumper] fix dumping typed references from properties (@nicolas-grekas) bug #43124 [Messenger] [Redis] Allow authentication with user and pas

Symfony 5.3.8 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #43206 [Workflow] Add missing audit-trail settings in framework workflow con… (@Stephan Wentz) bug #42354 [Ldap][Security] Make LdapAuthenticator an EntryPoint (@dcp-dev, @chalasr) bug #43146 [SecurityBundle] Fixed LogicException message of FirewallAwareTrait (@fkropfhamer) bug #43158 [Cache] Fix invalidating tags on Redis <5 (@wouterj) bug #43179 [Ldap] Fix resource type checks &

The Symfony Open Source project is supported by a company called Symfony SAS. This company sponsors the project by paying for contributions from Nicolas Grekas, Fabien Potencier and Javier Eguiluz. In order to make this sponsoring financially sustainable, the company relies on commercial services such as Symfony Insight, official Symfony conferences, as well as on donations. Today, we're happy to introduce a new Symfony Sponsoring Program. You or your company can now sponsor different parts of t

This week, Symfony announced that Flex is going serverless. This will simplify our operations and will allow you to host custom recipes in your own repositories and to add features on top of the public Flex API. In addition, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version added support for RGB notation in Console colors and added a new EnumType form field.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 52 pull requests were merged (32 in code and 20 in docs) and 69 issues were closed (30 in code and 39 in docs).

Symfony Flex was introduced in 2017 as one of the key parts of the reimagined Symfony experience for the Symfony 4 launch. Symfony Flex is a tool (technically, a Composer plugin) that simplifies the installation/removal of packages in Symfony applications. This simplification is made possible thanks to "Flex recipes", which are a set of automated instructions that tell Symfony how to install, enable and configure packages into applications. These recipes are currently stored in two public GitHub

This week, Symfony continued preparing the upgrade to a fully-typed codebase, including the release of a command utility to patch type declarations in your own code and a blog post explaining how to prepare your apps and bundles for Symfony 6. Finally, the Call for Papers for the upcoming SymfonyWorld 2021 conference will close next week. Send your proposals soon.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 49 pull requests were merged (29 in code and 20 in docs) and 33 issues were closed (28 in

According to Symfony Release Process, every two years Symfony releases the last version of a branch (X.4) and the first version of the next branch (Y.0) at the same time. That will happen at the end of November 2021, when both Symfony 5.4 and Symfony 6.0 will be released. The main difference between them is that Symfony 5.4 will still contain all deprecated features and you can use it in applications using those deprecated features. Symfony 6.0 removes all deprecated features. You'll need to upg

The SymfonyWorld Online 2021 Winter Edition conference will take place next December, just a few days after the release of Symfony 6.0. There will be two days of workshops (December 7 and 8) followed by two days of talks (December 9 and 10). The Call for Papers for both talks and workshops ends in just a few days, on September 20, 2021. Submit your proposals to be part of the next big Symfony conference. All Kinds of Speakers Welcome We strive for a conference lineup that is diverse and in

This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version optimized PHP preloading, improved the Web Debug Toolbar to show roles of the logged-in user, added support for resetting container services between two AMQP messages to avoid memory leaks and removed the experimental flag from RateLimiter and Runtime components.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 70 pull requests were merged (67 in code and 3 in docs) and 44 issues were closed (39 in code and 5 in docs). Excluding merges, 24 authors made 2,75

This week, Symfony 4.4.30 and 5.3.7 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, Symfony continued fixing minor issues related to the upcoming PHP 8.1 version. Finally, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version added a feature to allow autoconfigurable attributes on methods, properties and parameters.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 36 pull requests were merged (23 in code and 13 in docs) and 29 issues were closed (24 in code and 5 in docs). See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog: