This week, Symfony 3.4.33 and 4.3.6 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, we continued polishing the upcoming Symfony 4.4 version, specially the Messenger component. Lastly, SymfonyInsight introduced a new feature to help you upgrade to Symfony 5.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 53 pull requests were merged (35 in code and 18 in docs) and 28 issues were closed (26 in code and 2 in docs). Excluding merges, 26 authors made 2,238 additions and 1.415 deletions. See details for code and docs.

3.4 changelog:

  • 2ecd793: [SecurityBundle] correct types for default arguments for firewall configs
  • 1a92f44: [Serializer] improve messages for unexpected resources values
  • 27b0baa: [Config] disable default alphabet sorting in glob function due of unstable sort

4.3 changelog:

  • 3be177a: [Security/Core] make NativePasswordEncoder use sodium to validate passwords when possible
  • fd5b8de: [HttpClient] fixed handling of 3xx with no Location header and ignore Content-Length when no body is expected
  • 7b3d5cd: [OptionsResolver] fixed an error message to be more accurate
  • ee4b99f: [DoctrineBridge] auto-validation must work if no regex are passed
  • 2326f28: [HttpFoundation] allow to not pass a parameter to Request::isMethodSafe()
  • c424c5a: [HttpClient] always return the empty string when the response cannot have a body
  • 1a92f44: [Serializer] improved messages for unexpected resources values
  • 06e7458: [HttpClient] fixed performance issue when doing thousands of requests with cURL

4.4 changelog:

  • cc2858f: [ErrorRenderer] hide sensitive error messages
  • 3b11a76: [DomCrawler] normalizeWhitespace should be true by default
  • e2c625e: [Lock, Cache] allowed URL DSN in PDO adapters
  • 380e0fc: [Lock] added missing lock connection string in framework extension
  • d082732: [DependencyInjection] re-allow to use "tagged" in service definitions
  • 9e7ab8c: [Validator] added AutoMapping constraint to enable or disable auto-validation
  • 6bb7751: [HttpFoundation, FrameworkBundle] allowed configuring the session handler with a DSN
  • c424c5a: [HttpClient] always return the empty string when the response cannot have a body
  • 8cf0698: [DependencyInjection] fixed regexp for anonymous services with no class set
  • 38bd52e: [Cache] added DeflateMarshaller and removed phpredis compression
  • cf10c02: [Messenger] reverted SyncTransport simplification and fixed properly
  • 9eedb45: [Messenger] added DoctrineClearEntityManagerWorkerSubscriber to reset EM in worker
  • 3936b78: [Messenger] extracted worker logic to listener and get rid of SendersLocatorInterface::getSenderByAlias

Symfony Local Server

Symfony Local Server, the best way to run Symfony applications on your local machine, released its new 4.9.0 version with the following changes:

  • Add monitoring of commands executed via run -d to automatically restart them when they crash
  • Add --watch to run -d to automatically restart the commands when code changes
  • Fix wrong instructions for renewing local server TLS certificate
  • Fix APP_ENV detection when running symfony console
  • Update application name used by project:init to be app
  • Add slug flag to project:init allowing to override application name
  • Fix streaming several files with local:server:log only stream the last one
  • Change default value for lines flag of local:server:log command to 0
  • Add mount:list and mount:size commands
  • Follow redeployment following project:scale
  • Reuse SSH connection when running several commands in the same session
  • Add db:size command

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