A Week of Symfony #627 (31 December 2018 - 6 January 2019)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.3 version added a new isFormValid() shortcut for controllers, introduced a new theme option for dump() contents and simplified form theming with a new block_prefix form field option.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 58 pull requests were merged (40 in code and 18 in docs) and 30 issues were closed (25 in code and 5 in docs). Excluding merges, 36 authors made 1,550 additions and 1,294 deletions. See details for code and docs.

3.4 changelog:

• 5c71d7b: [Console] added specific replacement for help text in single command applications
• c573cfb: [Intl] handle null date and time types
• 44bb346: [Form] do not ignore the choice groups for caching
• b645c07: [Console] ensure final input of CommandTester works with default
• 482f49a: [HttpKernel] correctly Render Signed URIs Containing Fragments
• e38b5d2: [HttpFoundation] fixed request uri when it starts with double slashes
• 0a3d3d4: [DependencyInjection] fixed wrong factory method in exception

4.2 changelog:

• 4f31408: [SecurityBundle] fixed traceable voters
• 1fafdaf: [Lock] fixed lock test random failure
• 113ba10: [VarExporter] fixed exporting array indexes
• 42ac8af: [HttpFoundation] fixed erasing cookies issue
• 816f06a: replaced slave and master by replica and primary

Master changelog:

• c4d6d15: [PHPUnit bridge] bump PHP version of PHPUnit-bridge
• 23cdc73: [Serializer] CsvEncoder no header option
• c7d6bda: [Validator] improved choices constraint
• 2ce6a34: [HttpKernel] increased priority of AddRequestFormatsListener
• 556a920: [HttpKernel] set the default locale early
• 10b3d00: [FrameworkBundle] added ControllerTrait::isFormValid
• 9634a8f: [DebugBundle] added 'theme' option to change the color of dump() when rendered inside templates
• 743b52f: [Validator] improved BIC + IBAN validator for some special cases
• b948d5a: [Form] added new block_prefix option for an easy form theming
• 2fcb367: [Profiler] still show locale and fallback locale even if no trans used
• 5053bfe: [Validator] added tests in regex validator for objects with __toString method
• 5c2cee5: [Debug] detect virtual methods using @method

Newest issues and pull requests

• [FrameworkBundle] [Routing] Add options to debug:router command to filter by method, scheme or host
• [Security] Use remember_me with json_login
• Sesssion Strategy should be on Token level?
• Transient tests hunting

They talked about us

• Symfony, a Lifelong Friend
• Monofony, a Symfony booster based on Sylius internals
• La nueva etiqueta deprecated de Twig
• Constraints Financeiras Aprimoradas no Symfony 4.3
• Créer une image docker avec Symfony 4
• Новое в Symfony 4.3: Безусловное включение в URL необязательного параметра маршрута
• Занимаемся автоматизацией ведения паблика ВКонтакте

Upcoming Symfony Events

• 14th Symfony Bucharest Meetup: Bucharest, Romania (January 17)
• Symfony Meetup I / 2019: Frankfurt am Main, Germany (January 22)
• Symfony Vienna User Group Meetup: Vienna, Austria (January 29)
• Treffen der Symfony User Group Hamburg: Hamburg, Germany (February 5)
• 7. PHP Symfony User Group Basel: Basel, Switzerland (February 21)

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