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New in Symfony 4.4: Week Form Type
Symfony 4.4 will include a new WeekType form field to deal with week numbers as defined in the ISO 8601 standard.
New in Symfony 4.4: Bootstrap Custom Switches
In Symfony 4.4, forms can style checkboxes with Bootstrap's custom switches.
A Week of Symfony #670 (28 October - 3 November 2019)
This week, Symfony 3.4.33 and 4.3.6 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, we continued polishing the upcoming Symfony 4.4 version, specially the Messenger component. Lastly, SymfonyInsight introduced a new feature to help you upgrade to Symfony 5.
New in Symfony 4.4: Lazy Firewalls
In Symfony 4.4, stateful firewalls only create the user object when the application actually uses it, allowing more responses to be cacheable and improving the application performance.
New in Symfony 4.4: PHPUnit Polyfills
Symfony 4.4 will provide several polyfills for PHPUnit so you can use the same tests with different versions of PHP and PHPUnit.
New in Symfony 4.4: Notification Emails
Symfony 4.4 will include a feature to create notification emails, which are standardized messages intended to send notifications to yourself.
Get ready to upgrade to Symfony 5 with SymfonyInsight
Symfony 5 is coming soon. It will be released at the end of November 2019, in less than a month. Have you planned how are you going to upgrade your application to this new version?
A Week of Symfony #669 (21-27 October 2019)
This week, Symfony continued polishing the upcoming Symfony 4.4 and 5.0 versions. The most important new feature finished this week was the management of encrypted secrets. In addition, Symfony announced the publication of a new book called Symfony 5: The Fast Track.