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This week, Symfony 4.1 entered into its "feature freeze" period, so we finished some of its pending features: improved the Ajax panel in the debug toolbar, made exception pages more compact, avoid the double cache generation when running cache:clear command and lots of other minor changes. In addition, the French Symfony community celebrated the SymfonyLive Paris 2018 conference with great success. Lastly, we added Samuel Rozé as a new member of the Symfony Core Team.

A new Symfony 4 certification exam is now available for developers who want to gain official recognition as Symfony experts.

In Symfony 4.1, the output of console commands goes to the next level with multiple editable sections, overwritable contents and dynamic tables.

Symfony 4.1 adds a new Messenger component that helps applications send and receive messages to/from other applications or via message queues. It provides a message bus based on middlewares, some routing capabilities and built-in support for AMQP brokers.

In Symfony 4.1 you can autowire scalar values to controller action arguments and the configuration of decorated services has been simplified.

New Symfony Core Team Member: Samuel Roze

In Symfony 4.1 you can use the new server:dump command to collect all dumped information in a centralized server to avoid mixing your own contents with the dumped contents.

This week Symfony focused on finishing important features before the Symfony 4.1 feature freeze starts next week: introduced a new Messenger component, internationalized routing, inlined routing config, transition blockers for workflows, allow to define multiple sections in Console output and added a server to collect VarDumper dumps. In addition, we updated the status of our diversity initiative.

In Symfony 4.1 we improved the Workflow component with lots of major and minor features. This blog post summarizes the most important ones.

In Symfony 4.1 you can inline the requirements and default values in the route path to make the config more concise.