This week, Symfony continued with the mild development activity of the last weeks. The most significant changes were that FrameworkBundle now allows to autowire the service_container and that a bug related to assets version strategy was fixed.
January 10, 2016
#A week of symfony
This week, development activity was much less intense than usual. In addition to some minor fixes and tweaks, the Form component improved the performance of the ChoiceType and its subtypes .
January 3, 2016
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony was expected to slow down its development activity. Instead, four new maintenance versions were released: 2.3.36, 2.7.8, 2.8.1 and 3.0.1.
December 27, 2015
#A week of symfony
Security Voters are the recommended way to check for user permissions in Symfony applications In Symfony 2.6 we introduced an AbstractVoter class to reduce the boilerplate code needed to define a voter. In Symfony 2.8 we have simplified voters a bit more thanks to the new Voter class.
December 22, 2015
#Living on the edge
This week Symfony focused on fixing issues, such as the generated logout path when not using the router, maintaining comments in Yaml scalar blocks and constraining password length when using bcrypt.
December 20, 2015
#A week of symfony
DX or Developer Experience is essential for Symfony project. We work very hard to improve DX in each Symfony release and the recent Symfony 2.8 version is no exception.
December 16, 2015
#Living on the edge