Symfony 2.8.3 released

Symfony 2.8.3 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:

• bug #17947 Fix - #17676 (backport #17919 to 2.3) (Ocramius)
• bug #17942 Fix bug when using an private aliased factory service (WouterJ)
• bug #17798 [Form] Fix BC break by allowing 'choice_label' option to be 'false' in ChoiceType (HeahDude)
• bug #17542 ChoiceFormField of type "select" could be "disabled" (bouland)
• bug #17602 [HttpFoundation] Fix BinaryFileResponse incorrect behavior with if-range header (bburnichon)
• bug #17760 [Form] fix choice value "false" in ChoiceType (HeahDude)
• bug #17914 [Console] Fix escaping of trailing backslashes (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #17074 Fix constraint validator alias being required (Triiistan)
• bug #17866 [DependencyInjection] replace alias in factories (xabbuh)
• bug #17867 [DependencyInjection] replace alias in factory services (xabbuh)
• bug #17860 Fixed the antialiasing of the toolbar text (javiereguiluz)
• bug #17569 [FrameworkBundle] read commands from bundles when accessing list (havvg)
• bug #16987 [FileSystem] Windows fix (flip111)
• bug #17787 [Form] Fix choice placeholder edge cases (Tobion)
• bug #17835 [Yaml] fix default timezone to be UTC (xabbuh)
• bug #17823 [DependencyInjection] fix dumped YAML string (xabbuh)
• bug #17818 [Console] InvalidArgumentException is thrown under wrong condition (robinkanters)
• bug #17819 [HttpKernel] Prevent a fatal error when DebugHandlersListener is used with a kernel with no terminateWithException() method (jakzal)
• bug #17814 [DependencyInjection] fix dumped YAML snytax (xabbuh)
• bug #17099 [Form] Fixed violation mapping if multiple forms are using the same (or part of the same) property path (alekitto)
• bug #17694 [DoctrineBridge] [Form] fix choice_value in EntityType (HeahDude)
• bug #17790 [Config] Fix EnumNodeDefinition to allow building enum nodes with one element (ogizanagi)
• bug #17729 [Yaml] properly parse lists in object maps (xabbuh)
• bug #17719 [DependencyInjection] fixed exceptions thrown by get method of ContainerBuilder (lukaszmakuch)
• bug #17742 [DependencyInjection] Fix #16461 Container::set() replace aliases (mnapoli)
• bug #17745 Added more exceptions to singularify method (javiereguiluz)
• bug #17691 Fixed (string) catchable fatal error for PHP Incomplete Class instances (yceruto)
• bug #17766 Fixed (string) catchable fatal error for PHP Incomplete Class instances (yceruto)
• bug #17757 [HttpFoundation] BinaryFileResponse sendContent return as parent. (2.3) (SpacePossum)
• bug #17748 [DomCrawler] Remove the overridden getHash() method to prevent problems when cloning the crawler (jakzal)
• bug #17725 [WebProfilerBundle] Add width attribute on SVG - Fix toolbar profiler on microsoft edge (AlexandrePavy)
• bug #17703 [FrameworkBundle] Support autowiring for TranslationInterface (dunglas)
• bug #17613 [WebProfiler] Fixed logo and menu profiler for Microsoft Edge (WhiteEagle88)
• bug #17702 [TwigBridge] forward compatibility with Yaml 3.1 (xabbuh)
• bug #17673 [Routing] add files used in FileResource objects (xabbuh)
• bug #17672 [DependencyInjection][Routing] add files used in FileResource objects (xabbuh)
• bug #17669 [Console] remove readline support (xabbuh)
• bug #17600 Fixed the Bootstrap form theme for inlined checkbox/radio (javiereguiluz)
• bug #17596 [Translation] Add resources from fallback locale to parent catalogue (c960657)
• bug #17605 [FrameworkBundle] remove default null value for asset version (xabbuh)
• bug #17606 [DependencyInjection] pass triggerDeprecationError arg to parent class (xabbuh)
• bug #16956 [DependencyInjection] XmlFileLoader: enforce tags to have a name (xabbuh)
• bug #16265 [BrowserKit] Corrected HTTP_HOST logic (Naktibalda)
• bug #17559 [SecurityBundle] Fix HTTP Digest auth not being passed user checker (SamFleming)
• bug #17554 [DependencyInjection] resolve aliases in factories (xabbuh)
• bug #17555 [DependencyInjection] resolve aliases in factory services (xabbuh)
• bug #17511 [Form] ArrayChoiceList can now deal with a null in choices (issei-m)
• bug #17430 [Serializer] Ensure that groups are strings (dunglas)
• bug #15272 [FrameworkBundle] Fix template location for PHP templates (jakzal)
• bug #11232 [Routing] Fixes fatal errors with object resources in AnnotationDirectoryLoader::supports (Tischoi)
• bug #17526 Escape the delimiter in Glob::toRegex (javiereguiluz)
• bug #17527 fixed undefined variable (fabpot)
• bug #15706 [framework-bundle] Added support for the `0.0.0.0/0` trusted proxy (zerkms)
• bug #16274 [HttpKernel] Lookup the response even if the lock was released after two second wait (jakzal)
• bug #16954 [TranslationUpdateCommand] fixed undefined resultMessage var. (aitboudad)
• bug #17355 [DoctrineBridge][Validator] >= 2.3 Pass association instead of ID as argument (xavismeh)
• bug #17330 Limit the max height/width of icons in the profiler menu (javiereguiluz)
• bug #17454 Allow absolute URLs to be displayed in the debug toolbar (javiereguiluz)
• bug #16736 [Request] Ignore invalid IP addresses sent by proxies (GromNaN)
• bug #17459 [EventDispatcher] TraceableEventDispatcher resets event listener priorities (c960657)
• bug #17486 [FrameworkBundle] Throw for missing container extensions (kix)
• bug #16961 Overriding profiler position in CSS breaks JS positioning (aschempp)
• bug #16873 Able to load big xml files with DomCrawler (zorn-v)
• bug #16897 [Form] Fix constraints could be null if not set (DZunke)
• bug #16912 [Translation][Writer] avoid calling setBackup if the dumper is not FileDumper (aitboudad)
• bug #17505 sort bundles in config:dump-reference command (xabbuh)
• bug #17514 [Asset] Add defaultNull to version configuration (ewgRa)
• bug #16511 [Asset] Ability to set empty version strategy in packages (ewgRa)
• bug #17457 Display Ajax requests from newest to oldest in the toolbar (javiereguiluz)
• bug #17503 [Asset] CLI: use request context to generate absolute URLs (xabbuh)
• bug #17478 [HttpFoundation] Do not overwrite the Authorization header if it is already set (jakzal)
• bug #17461 [Yaml] tag for dumped PHP objects must be a local one (xabbuh)
• bug #16822 [FrameworkBundle][Validator] Fix apc cache service deprecation (ogizanagi)
• bug #17463 [Form] make tests compatible with Symfony 2.8 and 3.0 (xabbuh)
• bug #17456 [DX] Remove default match from AbstractConfigCommand::findExtension (kix)
• bug #17424 [Process] Update in 2.7 for stream-based output storage (romainneutron)
• bug #17417 Fixed the form profiler when using long form types (javiereguiluz)
• bug #17423 [Process] Use stream based storage to avoid memory issues (romainneutron)
• bug #17406 [Form] ChoiceType: Fix a notice when 'choices' normalizer is replaced (paradajozsef)
• bug #17433 [FrameworkBundle] Don't log twice with the error handler (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #17418 Fixed Bootstrap form theme form "reset" buttons (javiereguiluz)
• bug #17416 [PropertyInfo] PhpDocExtractor: Fix a notice when the property doesn'… (dunglas)
• bug #17404 fix merge 2.3 into 2.7 for SecureRandom dependency (Tobion)
• bug #17373 [SecurityBundle] fix SecureRandom service constructor args (Tobion)
• bug #17382 [TwigBridge] Use label_format option for checkbox and radio labels (enumag)
• bug #17380 [TwigBridge] Use label_format option for checkbox and radio labels (enumag)
• bug #17377 Fix performance (PHP5) and memory (PHP7) issues when using token_get_all (nicolas-grekas, peteward)
• bug #17389 [Routing] Fixed correct class name in thrown exception (fixes #17388) (robinvdvleuten)
• bug #17358 [ClassLoader] Use symfony/polyfill-apcu (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #17370 [HttpFoundation][Cookie] Cookie DateTimeInterface fix (wildewouter)

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