February 22–28, 2016 A Week of Symfony #478

This week Symfony fixed lots of minor issues related to the Form component. In addition, a DX issue was fixed to make it optional to define the alias option when creating custom validation constraints. Lastly, the Serializer component added a new normalizer that supports JsonSerializable objects.

Symfony development highlights

2.3 changelog:

• be30748: [HttpFoundation] fixed BinaryFileResponse incorrect behavior with if-range header
• 9124c28: use dedicate assert methods for PHPUnit tests
• 0807ff7: validated XLIFF translation files
• 4b33fd3: [DependencyInjection] replaced alias in factory services
• a7fee12: [FrameworkBundle] fixed constraint validator alias being required
• 3961412: [Console] fixed escaping of trailing backslashes
• d0cac39: [DomCrawler] fixed ChoiceFormField of type "select" could be "disabled"

2.7 changelog:

• 24cdae7: [WebProfilerBundle] use SVG icons in Twig profiler panel
• 3eac469: [Form] fixed choice value "false" in ChoiceType
• 8f918e5: [Form] refactored RadioListMapper::mapDataToForm()

2.8 changelog:

• cc9f6b0: [DependencyInjection] simplified code in AutowirePass
• dcd4d2e: [Form] fixed some regression in tests with placeholder in AbstractLayout
• 1f33be2: [Form] fixed FQCN in tests added

3.0 changelog:

• 4e253da: [FrameworkBundle] disabled the assets helper when assets are disabled
• c93df16: [HttpFoundation] removed @throws from ParameterBag::get() PHPDoc

Master changelog:

• 66a64ae: [DependencyInjection] improved autowiring error messages
• 2f8f9d4: [Serializer] added normalizer / denormalizer awarness
• 9d48b0f: [FrameworkBundle] registered the DataUriNormalizer
• 2c6905e: [FrameworkBundle] registered the DateTimeNormalizer
• db07500: [Serializer] added a normalizer that support JsonSerializable objects
• 0eaf329: [Ldap] added environment-based Ldap server configuration for tests
• aa770e1: [FrameworkBundle] added support for autowiring Doctrine\Common\Annotations\Reader
• c2d1c02: [PropertyInfo] used last version of reflection docblock
• 48f05ec: [PropertyAccess] throw an InvalidArgumentException when the type do not match

Newest issues and pull requests

• [Form] Add a built-in form_javascript twig function
• [PropertyAccess] Add the ability to remove elements from the arrays
• [Security, Profiler] Incomplete implementation of role hierarchies

They talked about us

• A dropdown for large lists in a Symfony 3 form with choice_loader and Select2
• Modular Routing in Symfony
• Sound of Symfony - Episode 12 - Building a stronger community
• The Ultimate Developer Guide to Symfony - Dependency Injection
• Listening to Symfony2 HTTP Kernel events
• Why You Must Choose Symfony PHP Framework?
• Symfony3; ¿Qué hay de nuevo viejo?
• 「基本からしっかり学ぶ Symfony2 入門」メモ(3)
• SymfonyのバンドルConfigCacheBundleをオープンソースとして公開しました
• Symfonyで作る検索フォーム