A week of symfony #470 (28 December 2015 - 3 January 2016)

This week, development activity was much less intense than usual. In addition to some minor fixes and tweaks, the Form component improved the performance of the ChoiceType and its subtypes .

Symfony development highlights

2.3 changelog:

• c4bef72: do not use HttpKernel Extension when not needed
• a89fe42: use nowdoc instead of heredoc
• 99fc428: [Process] fixed potential race condition leading to transient tests
• e4015d5: [Filesystem] fixed dumpFile() negates default file permissions
• 6d303c7: static Code Analysis for Components

2.7 changelog:

• 7878536: [Form] improved deprecation messages for the "empty_value" and "choice_list" options in the ChoiceType class
• ba7213c: [DependencyInjection] fixes typos in triggered deprecation notices
• a0ef101: [Form] improved performance of ChoiceType and its subtypes

2.8 changelog:

• bd686cd: [Form] fixed regression on Collection type
• ceded10: [PropertyInfo] catch ORMMappingException silently in DoctrineBridge
• f3c2a9b: [Form] fixed Catchable Fatal Error if choices is not an array
• 43fd7bb: [WebProfilerBundle] removed an object as route generator argument

Newest issues and pull requests

• Reconsider the CS rule for returning null in functions
• [DependencyInjection] Create a new trait or class to resolve values with the container
• Using a translation into another translation
• [Config] isRequired fields on a canBeEnabled array
• [Yaml] Regression in object support parser fix

They talked about us

• Symfony CMF status update and PHPCR ODM 1.3 release
• Symfony 3 support for LightSAML
• Symfony Benchmarks: PHP 5.6, HHVM 3.11 and PHP 7.0.1
• Largest Websites Built on Symfony2 Framework
• TDD your API with Symfony and PHPUnit
• Symfony Benchmarks: Scaling PHP by adding CPU & RAM
• Symfony Benchmarks: Symfony Proxy vs. Varnish
• Symfony Benchmarks: PHP-FPM vs. PHP-PM (on PHP 7 and HHVM)
• Subir archivos en Symfony3