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New in Symfony 4.1: Smarter URL redirections
In Symfony 4.1 the logic to redirect from URLs with trailing slashes to URLs without them finally works in both ways.
New in Symfony 4.1: Prepared commands
In Symfony 4.1, the commands passed to the process component can contain placeholders whose values are defined at runtime or obtained through environment variables.
New in Symfony 4.1: Argon2i configuration
In Symfony 4.1 you can configure the cost of hashing a password with the Argon2i algorithm thanks to three new options called memory_cost, time_cost and threads.
A week of symfony #582 (19-25 February 2018)
This week, development activity was focused on finishing some of the new features for the upcoming Symfony 4.1 version: added support for 307 and 308 HTTP redirections, allowed writing prepared console commands, added support for configuring Argon2i encryption and deprecated the bundle notation.
New in Symfony 4.1: Deprecated the bundle notation
In Symfony 4.1, the bundle notation has been deprecated in favor of regular PHP namespaces.
New in Symfony 4.1: 307 and 308 redirections
Symfony 4.1 adds support for making 307 and 308 redirections, which are similar to 301 and 302 redirections but they don't allow changing the request method.
New in Symfony 4.1: Validator improvements
In Symfony 4.1, the Url, Locale and Expression constraints have been improved with new config options.
A week of symfony #581 (12-18 February 2018)
This week Symfony added support for reproducible builds. In addition, it finished the feature to make Symfony's router the fastest PHP router and it also improved the dependency injection container performance.
New in Symfony 4.1: Fastest PHP Router
In Symfony 4.1 applications, matching a URL is 77 times faster than in previous Symfony versions, becoming the fastest router available in PHP.