A Week of Symfony #610 (3-9 September 2018)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.2 version merged lots of new features in preparation for its "feature freeze" at the end of this month: a new intl formatter for the Translation component, SameSite cookie support, a new PDO-based lock store and the Messenger component was made final.

Symfony development highlights

2.8 changelog:

• cf359c2: [HttpKernel, FrameworkBundle] fixed escaping of serialized payloads passed to test clients
• e7d325f: [TwigBundle] removed cache warmers when Twig cache is disabled
• a159638: [FileValidator] format file size in validation message according to binaryFormat option

3.4 changelog:

• edbd869: [WebProfilerBundle] fixed wrong url when base path is the index
• 8851c14: [DependencyInjection] fixed dumping some complex service graphs
• eaeb124: [TwigBundle] fixed caching of templates in default path on cache warmup
• ae59908: Updated .editorconfig
• 5e237db: [DependencyInjection] configure inlined services before injecting them when dumping the container

4.1 changelog:

• 824dbbd: [Workflow] made sure we do not run the next transition on an updated state

Master changelog:

• 59fad59: [Contracts] added Translation\TranslatorInterface + decoupled symfony/validator from symfony/translation
• 19e5218: [FrameworkBundle] don't populate fallback cache on warmup
• cabbf51: [VarExporter] optimized dumped code in time and space
• baad332: [Translation] added intl message formatter
• 2738d00: [Process] added relative path support for PHP_BINARY env var of PhpExecutableFinder
• 7be3bb2: added SameSite cookies to FrameWorkBundle
• b91effa: [FrameworkBundle] changed default output to xlf in TranslationUpdate
• 5a63f19: [Messenger] used Symfony Serializer by default for envelope items
• 8cf28e6: [FrameworkBundle] added class description to debug:container command
• a37bca4: [VarDumper] added a new env var to select the dump format
• 9ad492f: [FrameworkBundle] allowed user to specify folder for flock
• 86f54f3: [Serializer] allowed to access extra infos in name converters
• bc419fa: [Form, OptionsResolver] showed deprecated options definition on debug:form command
• 4401f2f: [PropertyInfo] added an extractor to guess if a property is initializable
• 8f5229f: [Dotenv] added a new method to override env vars
• 78ecaf3: [Lock] added a PdoStore
• 7c394e3: mark ExceptionInterfaces throwable
• 25ca59d: [Contracts] added traits+interfaces from the DI component
• c3fd60d: [Console] added support for cutting formatted text
• e54dd4e: [TwigBridge] added template "name" argument to debug:twig command to find their paths
• 0bd1f75: [DependencyInjection] forward Container::reset() to services implementing ResetInterface
• 150e3e1: [VarDumper] fixed an issue with first time dump() method call not working
• f2f4cd8: [Messenger] added interfaces to be type-hinted even when not using a Container
• 88a2af5: [Validator] deprecated validating DateTimeInterface in Date|Time|DateTime constraints
• f6b4dc9: [HttpKernel, Profiler] added arg value resolver category in performances panel
• 9af885c: [Messenger] added a simple serializer
• cd39b51: [Messenger, Profiler] added a trace for the middleware execution
• e980ce4: [Messenger] added a SenderLocator decoupled from ContainerInterface
• 1f996f4: [Messenger] removed the experimental annotations
• f3c3c0b: [VarExporter] fixed exporting instances of final classes that extend internal ones

Newest issues and pull requests

• Add an 'auto' mode for 'remember_me.secure'
• Memory consumption of Symfony Messenger
• [Serializer][RFC] New context option to avoid throw UnexpectedValueException
• [RFC][Asset] Assets Base Path Should Support Empty Values
• [Messenger] Add Enhancer for Sleeping on Idle

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• How to create a single-file plugin for Guzzle Bundle
• A forgiving command loader for Symfony Console
• How to Develop Multiple Symfony Applications Fast while Keeping the Quality
• Symfony 4 : Doctrine ORM ile veritabanı işlemleri

Upcoming Symfony Events

• Symfony trift Kiel: Kiel, Germany (September 17, 2018)
• Symfony User Group Cologne: Cologne, Germany (September 20, 2018)
• Treffen der Symfony User Group Hamburg: Hamburg, Germany (October 2, 2018)
• SymfonyDay 2018: Verona, Italy (October 19, 2018)
• PHP Symfony User Group Basel: Basel, Switzerland (November 8, 2018)

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