A week of symfony #472 (11-17 January 2016)

This week Symfony released four maintenance versions: 2.3.37, 2.6.13, 2.7.9 and 2.8.2. Besides the usual bug fixes, the main change introduced by these versions is the removal of our custom random number generator. Symfony now uses PHP's built-in random_bytes() and random_int() functions and the appropriate polyfill for those applications still using PHP 5.x.

Symfony development highlights

2.3 changelog:

• 6ebd179: [Doctrine Bridge] added support \IteratorAggregate for UniqueEntityValidator
• a02bd4b: [FrameworkBundle] fixed error while clearing cache with file paths that include % (for example URL encoded paths)
• 81f8181: Static Code Analysis for Components
• 85d5ed2: [Serializer] removed normalizer cache in Serializer class
• 4491c97: removed empty statements
• 61e810e: [Console] display console application name even when no version set
• fcd3160, b91441c: [Security] removed the custom random number generator
• 6852a46: [Doctrine Bridge] normalized params only when used by the DBAL logger
• d1f72d8, e555aad: [FrameworkBundle] fixed performance and memory issues when using token_get_all() in PHP 7
• f1f9754: [HttpFoundation] allow to set cookie lifetime with a DateTimeImmutable instance
• 51e3652: [Serializer] use is_subclass_of instead of Reflection when possible

2.7 changelog:

• b16b5b9: [Serializer] allowed to use proxies in object_to_populate
• ff18b68: [Serializer] unset object_to_populate after using it
• 5d2463b: [Console] fixed max width for multibyte keys in choice question
• dc8f780: [TwigBridge] use label_format option for checkbox and radio labels

2.8 changelog:

• 5f4e968: [Debug] fixed erroneous deprecation notice for extended Interfaces
• 8560c13: [Serializer] use $context['cache_key'] to enhance caching
• 5926ff2: [FrameworkBundle] don't log twice with the error handler

3.0 changelog:

• 37fb4e2, d7e3254: [Validator] removed calls to non-existing buildViolation() method
• 1ccc15d: [HttpFoundation] fixed Request HTTP_USER_AGENT on 3.X versions

Master changelog:

• 4618c9f: [HttpFoundation] allow to get all the mime types associated to a format in the Request
• a35ceb0: [VarDumper] add flags to allow fine tuning dumps representation
• c806a6d: added placeholders into log messages
• caae21c: [DependencyInjection] Deprecate unsupported attributes/elements for alias

Newest issues and pull requests

• Let's make Symfony tests faster
• [Form] Feature 'Allowed to return null for query_builder' not available
• [WebProfiler] adding a condition in routing.yml breaks the router panel
• ServerBag assumes the use of PHP_AUTH_USER denotes Basic authentication
• [DependencyInjection] PhpDumper, abstract service and factory
• Form has errors of non mapped fields
• [Process] currently not suitable for running processes with large output

Twig development highlights

Master changelog:

• 4474392: made file cache tolerant for trailing (back)slashes on directory configuration
• 07ebdfe: fixed Parser context push on stack

They talked about us

• Symfony and PrestaShop
• Sylius v0.16.0 with new attributes system
• Puli 1.0-beta10 Released
• Discover the PHP template engine Twig
• Symfony 3 base project with some common bundles installed
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• Cambios de Symfony3 con respecto a Symfony2
• Symfony po krůčkách – spouštíme procesy
• Symfony a Drupal Brno
• Symfony po krůčkách – Translation – překlady jednoduše
• Symfony Japan Meetup 8