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In Symfony 3.2, we've added a new user resolver that allows to get the current user in any controller via type-hinting and we deprecated the Controller::getUser() shortcut, which will be removed in Symfony 4.0.
July 13, 2016 #Living on the edge
ChoiceType is the most powerful Symfony form type and it's used to create select drop-downs, radio buttons and checkboxes. In Symfony 3.2 we added a new feature to improve its performance: lazy loading the choice values.
July 12, 2016 #Living on the edge
In Symfony 3.2, YAML files added support for including underscores in numeric literals (integer, float or hexadecimal) to improve their readability.
July 11, 2016 #Living on the edge
This week Symfony focused on fixing issues and tweaking existing features. Meanwhile, we continued blogging about the new Symfony 3.2 features. Lastly, the SymfonyLive Chicago Call for Papers was announced while the Call for Papers for SymfonyLive London and SymfonyCon Berlin will finish next week.
July 10, 2016 #A week of symfony
In this second of a three-part series, we introduce four additional new features added by Symfony 3.2 to the Console component to improve its DX (developer experience).
July 8, 2016 #Living on the edge
The Console component will receive a lot of new features in Symfony 3.2, mostly related to improving its DX (developer experience). In this first of a three-part series, we introduce four of those new features.
July 7, 2016 #Living on the edge
Symfony 3.2 adds support to define the fragment when generating any URL. It also adds support for using arrays and defining the variable types for XML route values.
July 6, 2016 #Living on the edge
Symfony 3.2 improves the cache mechanism introduced in Symfony 3.1 with some features not defined by the PSR-6: Caching Interface standard. The first new feature is the tag-based invalidation to create tagged caches.
July 5, 2016 #Living on the edge
Symfony 3.2 includes a new DateInterval form type to deal with calendar-related information such as reminders and bookings.
July 4, 2016 #Living on the edge
This week, Symfony 2.7.15, 2.8.8, 3.0.8 and 3.1.2 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 3.2 version continued adding new features, such as support for setter injection autowiring, configurable output for VarDumper component, deprecated access to private services and a new security resolver to get the current user via controller typehints.
July 3, 2016 #A week of symfony