Symfony Blog
A week of symfony #594 (14-20 May 2018)
This week, we continued polishing Symfony 4.1 before its stable release in two weeks. Our focus was on the Messenger component, which gained a ChainSender to implement multiple senders and also added support for middleware factories in config. Meanwhile, the work on Symfony 4.2 has already started and we added support for meta refresh in the BrowserKit component. Lastly, the dates for the SymfonyCon 2018 conference in Lisbon (Portugal) were announced for December 6th to 8th.
New in Symfony 4.1: Faster serializer
In Symfony 4.1 some operations of the Serializer component have been cached, improving the application performance up to 40%.
New in Symfony 4.1: Form field help
In Symfony 4.1 form fields can define their own help messages with a new help option.
New in Symfony 4.1: Hidden services
In Symfony 4.1, the debug:container command displays both public and private services by default. That's why you can now also define hidden services, to not display them in the debug:container output.
Diversity Initiative: The CARE Team
Meet the first members of the CARE team.
A week of symfony #593 (7-13 May 2018)
This week, the first beta of Symfony 4.1 was released, allowing you to test it more easily in your projects. We also posted some important updates about our diversity initiative. Lastly, we unveiled some new features for symfony.com, such as a new "dark theme" / "night mode".