A Week of Symfony #613 (24-30 September 2018)

This week Symfony 2.8.46, 3.4.16 and 4.1.5 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 4.2 version added an Instantiator::instantiate() method to create and populate objects without calling their constructors and made cookies auto-secure. Lastly, a new Symfony Mailer component was introduced during the SymfonyLive London 2018 conference and will be published in the coming weeks.

Symfony development highlights

2.8 changelog:

• c9bbc66: [HttpFoundation, Security] forward locale and format to subrequests
• 2e85ef5: [TwigBundle] fixed caching of templates in src/Resources//views on cache warmup

3.4 changelog:

• 2a605c2: [Cache] prevent getting older entries when the version key is evicted

4.1 changelog:

• 0997ff5: [HttpFoundation] X-Accel-Mapping does not use HTTP key=value syntax

Master changelog:

• 792ec82: [Form] deprecated the unused scale option
• 31f8cb9: [Form] deprecated precision in IntegerToLocalizedStringTransformer
• 9db435e: [Serializer] deprecated normalizers and encoders which don't implement the base interfaces
• b36172c: [VarExporter] added Instantiator::instantiate() to create and populate objects without calling their constructor nor any other methods
• 10df10c: [SecurityBundle] made remember-me cookies auto-secure and inherit their default config from framework session cookies
• 60fac5c: [HttpFoundation] made cookies auto-secure when passing them $secure=null
• e6deb09: [Cache] support configuring multiple Memcached servers in one DSN
• 3cd411a: [Cache] added setCallbackWrapper() on adapters implementing CacheInterface for more flexibility
• 3afe4e7: [BrowserKit] throw exception when request() wasn't called
• 91add60: [Validator] added BC layer covering BicValidator without Intl

Newest issues and pull requests

• [RFC] Symfony component implementing PSR-18
• [Messenger] Allow set priority for custom middleware
• [DX] [WebServerBundle] Display the local host IP when binding to 0.0.0.0
• [TwigBundle] Ability to disable built-in ExceptionListener
• [RFC] New constraints for Symfony validator
• [RFC] Improve bean validation

They talked about us

• Implement a ReCaptcha React component validated by Symfony
• Deploying a Symfony 4 application to Heroku (with Webpack!)
• Goodbye RabbitMQ Bundle, Hello Symfony Messenger
• Panther: test your Symfony apps with real web browsers (SymfonyLive London slides)
• The Easiest Way To Debug A Symfony Application in PhpStorm
• A forgiving command loader for Symfony Console
• Upcoming Symfony conferences and workshops
• 20 cosas que deberías saber de Symfony 4
• Symfony lancia SymfonyCasts
• Routing configuration Symfony 3.4

Upcoming Symfony Events

• Symfony trifft Kiel: Kiel, Germany (October 1, 2018)
• Treffen der Symfony: Hamburg, Germany (October 2, 2018)
• Symfony Stammtisch: Munich, Germany (October 9, 2018)
• SymfonyDay 2018: Verona, Italy (October 19, 2018)
• PHP Symfony User Group Basel: Basel, Switzerland (November 8, 2018)

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