A Week of Symfony #870 (28 August - 3 September 2023)

This week, development activity was lighter than usual and focused on deprecating and tweaking features in the upcoming Symfony 6.4 version. Meanwhile, the SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference announced the last days of the reduced ticket price period.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 45 pull requests were merged (11 in code and 34 in docs) and 26 issues were closed (7 in code and 19 in docs). Excluding merges, 15 authors made 48,041 additions and 18,927 deletions. See details for code and docs.

5.4 changelog:

• fcb754a: [PasswordHasher] avoid passing null to hash_pbkdf2()

6.3 changelog:

• a0fb29e: [Security] remove isAuthenticated and setAuthenticated token methods in tests
• 2d53409: [Security] always use getUserIdentifier in InMemoryTokenProvider

6.4 changelog:

• edd1cb4: [Workflow] deprecate GuardEvent::getContext method
• dbd7747: [Mailer, Smtp] add DSN param peer_fingerprint for fingerprint verification
• 420a5d2: [AssetMapper] improve message when a downloaded asset is not found
• 492896a: update the list of sponsors for Symfony 6.4
• b1a7024: [Mailer, Webhook] add Sendgrid webhook support

7.0 changelog:

• 7288b84: remove GuardEvent::getContext() method and add HasContextTrait trait

Newest issues and pull requests

• [Security] Private Access Token support
• [Serializer] | [PropertyAccess] Add support to fold plain properties into objects during denormalization

They talked about us

• Testing symfony applications with Cypress
• Auto-registering custom Doctrine types in Symfony
• Modern OAuth2 Discord Authentification with Symfony
• Handling deprecated routes using Symfony compiler passes
• Handling Multiple Requests Seamlessly with Symfony Lock
• Présentation et configuration du projet (Symfony 6)

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