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.
January 28, 2018
#A week of symfony
In Symfony 4.1, event listeners that define just one method can define an __invoke() method instead of a named method.
January 26, 2018
#Living on the edge
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.
January 21, 2018
#A week of symfony
Symfony 4.1 defines a new discriminator class mapping for the Serializer component so you can serialize and deserialize from abstract classes and interfaces.
January 18, 2018
#Living on the edge
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.
January 17, 2018
#Community
#Conferences
We will sunset the symfony 1 infrastructure at the end of February 2018.
January 17, 2018
#Community
Symfony 4.1 includes a new option called "name_prefix" to define the prefix added to all the routes imported in a configuration file.
January 16, 2018
#Living on the edge
Symfony 4.1 adds a new email address validation mode that uses the validation logic defined in the HTML5 specification.
January 15, 2018
#Living on the edge
This week, Symfony announced the end of Silex, the end of the Symfony Standard Edition and the end of the Symfony Installer because Symfony 4 makes them unnecessary. In addition, we explained our next steps for the Symfony diversity initiative.
January 14, 2018
#A week of symfony
The Symfony Installer tool end of life is scheduled for November 2020, when Symfony 3.4 will not be supported anymore.
January 12, 2018
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