Symfony Blog
New Core Team Member, Security Team Leader
Michael Cullum is joinong the Symfony Core Team to lead the security team.
A week of symfony #578 (22-28 January 2018)
This week, Symfony added support for anonymous services in PHP DSL config, made session-related services extra lazy and introduced specific exception classes to properly catch signaled process errors.
New in Symfony 4.1: Invokable event listeners
In Symfony 4.1, event listeners that define just one method can define an __invoke() method instead of a named method.
A week of symfony #577 (15-21 January 2018)
This week Symfony worked on adding new features to the upcoming 4.1 version, such as priority for Twig extensions, a CSV processor for environment variables, and support for invokable event listeners. In addition, we introduced a surprisingly simple performance optimization for the container compilation.
New in Symfony 4.1: Serialize and deserialize from abstract classes
Symfony 4.1 defines a new discriminator class mapping for the Serializer component so you can serialize and deserialize from abstract classes and interfaces.
Call for Papers - SymfonyLive Phantasialand 2018
This year we'll see the Cologne edition of the SymfonyLive conference in Germany move to Phantasialand theme park. There's still time to submit your proposal to deliver a talk.
The end of symfony 1
We will sunset the symfony 1 infrastructure at the end of February 2018.
New in Symfony 4.1: Prefix imported route names
Symfony 4.1 includes a new option called "name_prefix" to define the prefix added to all the routes imported in a configuration file.
New in Symfony 4.1: HTML5 Email Validation
Symfony 4.1 adds a new email address validation mode that uses the validation logic defined in the HTML5 specification.