A Week of Symfony #681 (13-19 January 2020)

This week, Symfony's development activity focused on fixing bugs and minor issues. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 5.1 version added a feature to support scalar denormalization in the Serializer component. Finally, there were some updates about the Symfony 5 book.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 33 pull requests were merged (13 in code and 20 in docs) and 38 issues were closed (31 in code and 7 in docs). Excluding merges, 2 authors made 316 additions and 118 deletions. See details for code and docs.

3.4 changelog:

• db3134e: [Yaml] fixed PHP const mapping keys using the inline notation
• 6cc377f: [Security] fixed RememberMe with null password
• f889c11: [Filesystem] chown and chgrp should also accept int as owner and group
• b493997: [Validator] updated Serbian translation

4.3 changelog:

• ec0333c: [HttpClient] fixed strict parsing of response status codes
• 6b95ea6: [FrameworkBundle] removed messenger cache if not enabled
• 477e843: [DependencyInjection] suggest typed argument when binding fails with untyped argument

4.4 changelog:

• be84687: [FrameworkBundle] set booted flag to false when test kernel is unset

Master changelog:

• ddc0169: [Serializer] added scalar denormalization
• 0607691: [Workflow] made many internal services as hidden
• b350c80: [Workflow] added a way to not fire the announce event
• af4035d: [Messenger] Messenger redis local sock DSN

Symfony Local Server

Symfony Local Server, the best way to run Symfony applications on your local machine, released its new 4.12.4 version with the following changes:

• Fix reading extra.public-dir from composer.json
• Fix running composer create-project in symfony new on Windows
• Fix console hyperlinks breaks output formatting on Windows
• Fix unmarshal error when runtime options is not an array

Newest issues and pull requests

• [RFC][YAML] Support binary int notation
• [RFC][Validator] Move the filtering/sanitation/normalization out of the validators
• [DependencyInjection] Support multiple tags for ServiceLocator
• Checking for versions of specific components

They talked about us

• Grant on Permissions, not Roles
• Seven Commands to Bulletproof Your Symfony Application CI Build
• How To Install Symfony 5 On Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04 With Nginx
• Nuovo libro su Symfony 5
• Validação: Form Theme e Event Listeners
• Symfony 5 -İlk Sayfamız (Controller)

Upcoming Symfony Events

• SymСode.Talks St. Petersburg #1 - IN100GRAMM: Sankt-Peterburg, Russia (January 25)
• Symfony 5 & Schema design for e-commerce: Berlin, Germany (January 29)
• Symfony User Group Cologne: Cologne, Germany (January 30)
• Treffen der Symfony User Group Hamburg: Hamburg, Germany (February 4)

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