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Symfony 6.3 adds support for Early Hints, which allows browsers to download assets while servers are still preparing a response. This improves perceived performance significantly.

This week, Symfony 6.2.9 maintenance release was published. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version continued adding features such as: adding the locale to the app global Twig variable, a new token handler and user for OpenID Connect, two new attributes called MapRequestPayload and MapQueryString to map Request input to typed objects and a new debug command for Serializer. Lastly, we published all the information about the workshops of the SymfonyOnline conference in June 2023.

Writing tests ensures development efficiency and smooth software delivery. Alexandre Salomé will discuss using PHPUnit in Symfony, maintaining test suites, unit and functional testing, handling dependencies, testing mail sending, and organizing test data.

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Carlos Granados will explain during this talk why we should use Xdebug debugger, how to install and configure it, and how it interacts with Symfony applications. We will also explore how Xdebug can drive development beyond debugging.

Get ready for SymfonyOnline June 2023: Have a look on the workshops topics and the amazing trainers!

Building software needs APIs to process data. The API-first approach focuses on the API from the start, and microservices and headless backend systems push this thinking. Maximilian Beckers will discuss how this approach improves software quality and makes stakeholders happier with practical tips and tools for APIs.

Łukasz Chruściel will focus on the design of reusable software with SOLID as a five different approaches to how we can improve the code.

Allison Guilhem will talk about AsyncDecoratorTrait in Symfony HttpClient component to manage HTTP responses effectively, improving performance and flexibility.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version improved the new Scheduler component to allow rejecting messages, improved the Web Profiler to make views clickable in the toolbar and fixed many small issues. Meanwhile, we announced new Symfony backers for the Symfony 6.3 version and published new information about the hotel and transportation for SymfonyCon 2023.