This week, development activity focused on fixing the bugs reported for the recent Symfony 4.4 and 5.0 versions. We also improved the Slugger to make it more portable and added support for autowiring PHP 7.4 typed properties. Lastly, the videos of SymfonyCon 2019 Amsterdam conference were published.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 60 pull requests were merged (42 in code and 18 in docs) and 82 issues were closed (66 in code and 16 in docs). Excluding merges, 31 authors made 1,870 additions and 238 deletions. See details for code and docs.

3.4 changelog:

30294c4: [DependencyInjection] fixed making the container path-independent when the app is in /app
cb429cd: [Security] do not validate passwords when the hash is null
59126e0: [SecurityBundle] passwords are not encoded when algorithm set to true
ffcb691: [Validator] allow underscore character "_" in URL username and password
5807f5f: [FrameworkBundle] resolved service locators in debug:* commands
ae6c5d3: [SecurityBundle] properly escape regex in AddSessionDomainConstraintPass
8f2cd5b: [Yaml] fixed parsing negative octal numbers
7dbc4c6: [Cache] fixed memory leak when using PhpArrayAdapter
c0b2ade: [Config] never try loading failed classes twice with ClassExistenceResource

4.3 changelog:

6611ae6: [MonologBridge] added test on ServerLogHandler
302243d: [DependencyInjection] fixed resolving bindings for named TypedReference
56fac41: [DotEnv] removed usePutEnv property default value
9a025b4: [Messenger] gracefully handle missing event dispatchers

4.4 changelog:

0a9a6ba: [Security] fixed checking for SHA256/SHA512 passwords
c01a583: [FrameworkBundle] set the parameter bag as resolved in ContainerLintCommand
120f32c: [SecurityBundle] Simplified code in AnonymousFactory
e1f7b78: [SecurityBundle] fixed switch_user provider configuration handling
4af59c2: [Translation] fixed FileDumper behavior
7f56758: [DependencyInjection] resolve expressions in CheckTypeDeclarationsPass
c3b5ec5: [FrameworkBundle] create secrets directory only when it is used
bfe697b: [TwigBridge] update bootstrap_4_layout.html.twig missing switch-custom label
0ad5dd5: [HttpFoundation] get currently session.gc_maxlifetime if ttl doesnt exists
70dec3c: [SecurityBundle] fixed TokenStorage::reset not called in stateless firewall
215dca4: [Security] check UserInterface::getPassword is not null before calling needsRehash
53f2878: [DependencyInjection] handle env var placeholders in CheckTypeDeclarationsPass
b4c8d51: [Mailer] fixed SMTP Authentication when using STARTTLS

5.0 changelog:

6b7029b: [DoctrineBridge] removed QueryBuilder type hint in getLoader()
b3f513a: [String] inline Latin-ASCII rules
ed3e111: [String] implement __sleep()/__wakeup() on strings

Master changelog:

9097230: [Form] allowed to translate each language into its language in LanguageType
6c16390: [HttpFoundation] deprecated Response::create() methods
0d2f411: [Security] made remember-me user providers lazy
24ed8e1: [Validator] mark the Composite constraint as internal
d84e92c: [DependencyInjection] autowire public typed properties