A Week of Symfony #871 (4-10 September 2023)

This week, Symfony launched a new initiative to help third-party packages and libraries with the new PHP types added in Symfony 7.0. In addition, it made a call for IT student volunteers for the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference. Finally, we announced the countdown to SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference and to the API Platform Conference 2023.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 44 pull requests were merged (6 in code and 38 in docs) and 62 issues were closed (26 in code and 36 in docs). Excluding merges, 19 authors made 28,504 additions and 9,198 deletions. See details for code and docs.

6.3 changelog:

• 29f427f: [Mailer] fix EsmtpTransport variable $code definition
• 95153c4: [Mailer] reset $code variable each iteration for prevent wrong exception codes

6.4 changelog:

• 9b2a4db: [DoctrineBridge, Messenger] always use executeStatement method

7.0 changelog:

• 75119b0: [Workflow] remove GuardEvent::getContext() method without replacement

Newest issues and pull requests

• Symfony 7.0 Type Declarations: Requesting Feedback from the Community
• [RFC][Form] Ability to choose a different mapping strategy
• [Mime] Allow to add headers as a strings

SymfonyCasts Updates

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These were some of the most relevant SymfonyCasts updates of the week:

• (Video) API Platform 3 Part 3: Custom Resources, Chapter 1: Setup & Ways to Extend API Platform
• (Video) API Platform 3 Part 3: Custom Resources, Chapter 2: State Providers, Processors & a Custom Field
• (Video) API Platform 3 Part 3: Custom Resources, Chapter 3: Decorating the Core State Provider
• (Video) API Platform 3 Part 3: Custom Resources, Chapter 4: Decorating the CollectionProvider
• (Video) API Platform 3 Part 3: Custom Resources, Chapter 5: Simpler State Processor

They talked about us

• Symfony Station Communiqué - Workcation Edition
• Introducing the MicroSymfony application template
• Handling deprecated routes using Symfony compiler passes
• Handling Multiple Requests Seamlessly with Symfony Lock
• Custom DQL usage with Symfony
• Discovering Symfony’s Secret Weapon: The Ultimate Guide to the Webhook Component
• Serve a file stream in Symfony
• Month of Sylius: August

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