A Week of Symfony #613 (24-30 September 2018)
This week Symfony 2.8.46, 3.4.16 and 4.1.5 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 4.2 version added an Instantiator::instantiate() method to create and populate objects without calling their constructors and made cookies auto-secure. Lastly, a new Symfony Mailer component was introduced during the SymfonyLive London 2018 conference and will be published in the coming weeks.
September 30, 2018
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 4.2: VarExporter component
Symfony 4.2 introduces a new VarExporter component to provide a better alternative to PHP's var_export() function.
September 27, 2018
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 4.2: SameSite cookie configuration
Symfony 4.2 makes it easier to configure the samesite cookie attribute in several parts of the framework.
September 26, 2018
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 4.2: Console tables improvements
Using tables to display tabular contents in console commands are one of the most popular features of the Console component. In Symfony 4.2 we improved them with new features to display titles and set their maximum column width.
September 25, 2018
Javier Eguiluz
A Week of Symfony #612 (17-23 September 2018)
This week Symfony introduced SymfonyCasts, the best place to learn about Symfony, PHP and JavaScript. Meanwhile, the Validator component was decoupled from the Translator, and the lint commands were improved to support multiples files and directories. Lastly, the SymfonyLive London 2018 conference will take place next week.
September 23, 2018
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 4.2: PDO-based lock storage
In Symfony 4.2, locks can be stored in PDO-compatible databases like MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL.
September 21, 2018
Javier Eguiluz