A Week of Symfony #862 (3-9 July 2023)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.4 version continued adding native return types to its codebase. Meanwhile, the Symfony 7.0 branch, which will be released at the same time, continued removing deprecated code paths. In addition, Symfony announced the SymfonyOnline January 2024 conference and the first speakers of SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 90 pull requests were merged (46 in code and 44 in docs) and 51 issues were closed (26 in code and 25 in docs). Excluding merges, 32 authors made 84,301 additions and 14,422 deletions. See details for code and docs.

5.4 changelog:

• 1e1d91e: [DependencyInjection] fix autocasting null env values to empty string
• a746442: [Security] random_bytes length should be an int greater than 7
• cf3966c: [Messenger] fix passing options set via tags to handler descriptors
• 99fa865: [Finder] fix initial directory is opened twice
• 9cbdfc6: [DepdencyInjection] fix costly logic when checking errored definitions
• 9c1dedb: [Finder] fix children condition in ExcludeDirectoryFilterIterator
• 60d6ce1: [DoctrineBridge] load refreshed user proxy
• 5b05271: [Serializer] fix Normalizer not utilizing converted name for index variadic param
• 11fa1be: [CssSelector] tests on Xpath translator will always pass
• 7723dca: [DependencyInjection] don't ignore attributes on the actual decorator
• 17f4fe4: [Security] fix false-string handling in RememberMeAuthenticator
• e11b3a3: [PhpUnitBridge] use triggering class to generate baseline for deprecation messages from DebugClassLoader
• 8e93517: [FrameworkBundle] prevent cache:clear to lose files on subsequent runs

6.3 changelog:

• dd83b18: [Scheduler] fix PeriodicalTrigger from argument for stateful run dates
• ee687df: [Notifier] fix Esendex messages serialization

6.4 changelog:

• 03e4b87: [WebProfilerBundle] fix minify test after JS refactor
• 6178664: [TwigBridge] allow to change element for form_help block
• c8e0c35: [SecurityBundle] deprecate Security::* consts and other cleanups
• 29c1efa: [Security] remove ArgumentValueResolverInterface from UserValueResolver
• cf3966c: [Messenger] fix passing options set via tags to handler descriptors
• 7147751: add missing return types to magic methods
• e869eb6: [Security] add native return type to Firewall::getSubscribedEvents()
• 20cd059: add native return types to fix compat with v7
• ce9bbd3: [Notifier] add Brevo bridge (formerly Sendinblue)
• 710e16c: [Mailer] new Brevo mailer bridge
• f143f34: [Mailer] add assertEmailSubjectContains and assertEmailSubjectNotContains methods
• f6723ab: [Mailer] add X-Infobip-Track header to be able to disable tracking

7.0 changelog:

• 1265bc5: remove BC layers related to new methods and new parameters
• 2f0f034: [HttpClient] remove implementing Http\Message\RequestFactory from HttplugClient
• 4dfe50e: [Validator] remove deprecated code paths
• b7122d8: [Security] remove deprecated code paths
• c37bf92: [ExpressionLanguage] remove deprecated code paths
• 0e01e2d: [HttpKernel] remove deprecated code paths
• 297569b: [Mime] remove deprecated methods in Mime Component
• 7e89741: [Lock] 7.0 remove deprecations in Lock Component
• 3de2f13: remove remaining deprecated code paths
• a6ec131: convert to native return types
• 48f66f9: [DomCrawler, HttpFoundation] add planned arguments to Crawler::innerText() and sendHeaders() methods

Newest issues and pull requests

• Add ISO-3166-1 Numeric codes to Intl component
• UrlType and Url constraint changes
• [Security] OpenID Code Token Single Sign On implementation
• Programatically login and RememberMe

They talked about us

• Symfony Station Communiqué - 7 July 2023
• Dealing with Doctrine’s Limitation of Storing DateTime ATOM Format (in Symfony projects)
• MapEntity attribute: your new Symfony best friend
• Symfony + Outbox Pattern + RabbitMQ: A Key for Reliable Microservices
• Setting up a testing database in Symfony
• Applying SOLID principles with Symfony
• Money Pattern with Symfony Framework
• API Platform up and running in 5 minutes
• Héberger une application Symfony 6.3 dans un téléphone Android avec Termux et utiliser FRP pour créer un tunnel. — Miary Rabehasy
• Validando requests no Symfony Framework
• Applicare alcuni principi Solid con Symfony

Call to Action

• Follow Symfony on Twitter and retweet this article.
• Subscribe to the Symfony blog RSS and never miss a Symfony story again.