This week Symfony2 published its fourth release candidate version, one of the latest versions before the final release. In addition, Symfony2 updated Doctrine version to 2.1 and Monolog version to 1.0. Lastly, some exception messages were improved and validation error messages were updated/translated to lots of languages.

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symfony 1 development highlights

Changelog:

r32729: [1.3, 1.4] updated getHost() to consider a chain of forwarded hosts
r32741: [1.4] removed non-countries from sfCultureInfo::getCountries()

Symfony2 development highlights

Changelog:

06c3712: [Form] FileTypeCsrdExtension is not required any more (as FileType now extends FieldType)
756ea8d, 311a9bd: call session_name() only if user gave an new one
bd89cc7: [FrameworkBundle] fixed Template parser to accept template with dots
e6da824: [MonologBundle] added services for core processors
b9656e6: updated Doctrine version to 2.1.0
4f8a980: [Security] removed a hack related to URL generation
431460f: [Form] removed choice or choice_list requirement as the following conditions already check enough and this condition prevents empty select forms (populated by ajax for example)
4c6e177: [Form] fixed the default validator
932cd10, 722ad12: made HTTP headers coming from proxies non-trusted by default
d58ba34: [Validator] consider the ini directive 'upload_max_filesize' while validating an uploaded file
3df5ec3: [HttpKernel] added support for 'upload_max_filesize' ini directive in the Client
133169f: better exception message for extension in XmlFileLoader
d3b7807: [Doctrine] fixed Doctrine guesser when the object is a proxy and not an original entity instance
090a51a, f21dc42: added Registry::getEntityManagerForObject() to conveniently get the entity manager associated with a given Entity
0824736: fixed validation of Doctrine proxy objects
ef022c0: removed the magical guessing of the type name to avoid WTF issues
47da6cf: [Form] removed guesser for Choice constraints
fa20b51: [Console] refactored definition printer
874fb95: [MonologBundle] refactored the configuration of processors
f8b5f35: [MonologBundle] refactored the way to configure the email prototype for swiftmailer
c12676b: [Doctrine] added a better error message when an Entity has no __toString method defined
bb5075d: [HttpFoundation] prevented Response headers to be sent twice. This change allows for more flexibility if the developer wants to flush the Response content early
7eec2ca: [Form] added a form type name validator
6039569, ac1448f, 4f9060c: [Routing] added # and ? to escaped chars
6786e81: [HttpFoundation] code factorization in UploadedFile
76a5816: [HttpKernel] fixed recursion when flattenning an exception stack trace
bb1b480: [Translation] added CSV controls for CsvFileLoader
df57e0f: [Validator] added strict option to ChoiceConstraint
28be194: updated Monolog to 1.0.0
8cba490: [Process] removed workaround as it seems to not work anymore after the recent changes
08b4219: [DoctrineBridge] fixed Unique Validator does not work with null values
9714cfc: fixed fatal error when intl module is not installed

Repository summary: 2,518 watchers (#1 in PHP, #23 overall) and 656 forks (#1 in PHP, #13 overall).

New plugins

sfSimpleMenu: simple plugin for creating menus.
sfTextDateInputJQueryDatePicker: allows you to use a normal text input field for date or date/time entry, and have a button next to the input which pops up a jQuery DatePicker component for selecting the date by hand.
sfActionCredentialsGetter: enables you to get the required credentials for a given module name and action name, and to determine whether the action is secure.
ncTracker: provides a tracking mechanism for actions performed or visited on the application.
sfNginxMiniServer: allows symfony developers to quickly write and test their pages by spawning a mini-webserver using Nginx and PHP from within their symfony app.

Updated plugins

sfAjaxAdminDoctrineTheme:
- trap Doctrine exceptions on delete and present the errors gracefully using flashes
- made AJAX actions asynchronous and showed a spinner while they are occurring
- validated in JavaScript that at least one item and a batch action is selected before proceeding with the batch action. If not, issue an alert
- confirmed batch actions using a confirm dialog
- properly handle custom links in the list table rows
- UI and speed improvements
sfGuardUserSwitcher:
- fixed reloading of credentials
- allowed to switch if switched user is not allowed to switch
sfGearman:
- removed references to sfGearmanConnection interface
sfTrafficCMS:
- added general content and images support
cpDataTables:
- updated to dataTables 1.8.1
- fixed default stylesheet
apostrophePeople:
- refactored filter by name functionality
- reordered methods in people plugin actions
- created aPeople constructor for aPeople javascript
- moved plugin classes to base classes so that people plugin is consistent with our other plugins
- abstracted person out of the people partial the people partial is just a foreach loop person is the individual person markup
- changed sidebar forms to post
- filters reset when no filter items are specified
- no longer storing filters in the session
apostropheExtraSlots:
- renamed the aMapSlot.js to aExtraSlots.js to be consistent with all of our plugins
apostrophe:
- added a refresh event to formUpdates
- added a setBlank function to a.js
- added single-image and mult-image class name logic to the slideshow partial
- added aMysql class which provides a very useful, very fast set of methods for handling SQL queries conveniently without the overhead of a proper ORM like Doctrine
- reworked linkToRemote to accept 'selector' instead of 'link'
apostropheBlog:
- Wordpress import task has moved to apostropheImportersPlugin
- Disqus support now uses the disqus_thread_identifier column when it is present, otherwise defaults to the id
- refactored code to get the right thread identifier so it's less redundant and annoying

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Published in #A week of symfony

A week of symfony #236 (4->10 July 2011)