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Symfony 7.2 introduces features like custom retry delays for Messenger, improved null-coalesce support in expressions, custom attributes for user login passports, and enhanced VarDumper support for PHP 8.4 property hooks.

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This week, Symfony development activity focused on polishing the upcoming Symfony 7.2 release (scheduled for next week) and fixing some bugs in the 5.4 branch (which will reach the end of its bug-fix maintenance period next week as well). Additionally, we continued publishing blog posts about the new features of Symfony 7.2.

Symfony 7.2 simplifies application setup by making the secret optional, enhancing security and developer experience.

Symfony 7.2 deprecates several features, including session config options, empty user identifiers, and the !tagged tag.

Symfony 7.2 introduces stateless CSRF protection, enabling secure token validation without relying on server-side sessions.

Symfony 7.2 enhances the Serializer with support for DateTime subclasses, a new SnakeCaseToCamelCase name converter, updated UUID constants, and optional Webhook integration.

This week, Symfony 5.4.47, 6.4.15, and 7.1.8 maintenance versions were released. Additionally, the second release candidate of Symfony 7.2 was published, ahead of its final release scheduled for the end of November 2024. Lastly, we published two new security advisories to address some reported security issues in Symfony.

Symfony 7.2 redesigns the TypeInfo component and makes it stable.

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