July 13–19, 2015 A Week of Symfony #446

This week, Symfony 2.3.31, 2.6.10 and 2.7.2 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, some PHP7 and HHVM incompatibilities were fixed and a few minor BC breaks were fixed for 2.7. Lastly, Symfony 2.8 introduced a change to forbid container cloning.

Symfony2 development highlights

2.3 changelog:

• ba6000b: [HttpFoundation] behaviour change in PHP7 for substr
• 7fa79da: [DependencyInjection] remove unused code in XmlFileLoader
• 059964d: [HttpFoundation] allowed to use resources as content body and to return resources from string content

2.6 changelog:

• 7783573: [PropertyAccess] fixed BC break related to object references
• 1adb065: [HttpFoundation] fixed Response::closeOutputBuffers() for HHVM 3.3

2.7 changelog:

• 3fcf61e: [Console] fixed broken ChoiceQuestion
• 03642b8: [Form] fixed a BC break in the entity
• 23bc264: [Console] set QuestionHelper max attempts in tests

2.8 changelog:

• b65d0a2: [WebProfilerBundle] added a link to show profile of latest request
• ba12904: [DependencyInjection] forbid container cloning

Master changelog:

• a48c377: [DependencyInjection] added ParameterBagInterface::remove

Newest issues and pull requests

• Make kernel.root_dir usable in routing.yml to support bundleless apps
• [DX][Security] Introduce a class representing a/the current firewall
• Provide a method to retrieve a safe request URI
• [Request] Let hasPreviousSession take RememberMe cookie into account
• [Doctrine] [Bridge] UniqueEntity validator should add {{ value }} message placeholder
• ContainerBuilder is instantiating private shared services again and again
• Cookie date issue
• [DependencyInjection] Parameter Expansion in Service Ids

Twig development highlights

Master changelog:

• a3b7fcb: moved some protected properties/methods from protected to private

They talked about us

• Introducing Guard: Symfony Security with a Smile
• 5 Ways to optimize Symfony Baseline Performance
• A developer replete with Drupal vim and vigor
• Experimenting with Broadway
• Publicada la guía de estudio de la certificación Symfony
• Установка и настройка Symfony2
• Автоматическая генерация API doc через Аннотации или как прийти к документированию API
• Обзор каркасов приложений на Symfony2
• Налаштування Symfony (і середовищ)
• Drupal 8 ancora più potente con Symfony