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New in Symfony 4.4: Messenger Middleware to Clear Doctrine Entity Manager
In Symfony 4.4, the Messenger component added a new middleware to clear the Doctrine entity manager when a message is consumed to avoid memory leaks and side-effects.
New in Symfony 4.4: Improved Type Constraint
In Symfony 4.4, the Type constraint can check that the given value type is one of several possible types.
A Week of Symfony #667 (7-13 October 2019)
This week, Symfony 3.4.32 and 4.3.5 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 4.4 version improved the syntax for defining method calls in YAML, improved performance of filesystem-based caches and allowed to omit the event name when registering listeners.
New in Symfony 4.4: New DomCrawler Methods
In Symfony 4.4, the DomCrawler component will add three new methods called matches(), closest() and outerHtml() and it will add a new feature to remove all white spaces from text.
New in Symfony 4.4: Signing and Encrypting Email Messages
In Symfony 4.4, the Mailer and Mime components will add support for signing an encrypting email messages to improve their integrity and security.
A Week of Symfony #666 (30 September - 6 October 2019)
This week, Symfony continued fixing bugs and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 4.4 version. Meanwhile, the new String component introduced in Symfony 5.0 added a locale-aware Slugger with support for transliterating multiple locales. Lastly, the new Notifier component was merged as an experimental feature in the upcoming Symfony 5.0 version.
A Week of Symfony #665 (23-29 September 2019)
This week, Symfony worked on several pending features in preparation for the "feature freeze" period which starts next week: stateful firewalls now turn responses private only when needed, isGranted()/decide() no longer accept more than one role/attribute, the files generated by the profiler are now compressed and firewalls added a new anonymous lazy mode. Lastly, the new String component was finally merged to provide object-oriented strings management with an abstract unit system.
SymfonyLive London 2019 was a great success!
You missed our Symfony British conference last week? Here's a quick look at this amazing conference.