A Week of Symfony #696 (27 April - 3 May 2020)

This week, Symfony 3.4.40, 4.4.8 and 5.0.8 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the updated Security component removed the anonymous concept and a new Runtime component was proposed to decouple applications from global state. Finally, a new online conference in French was announced for May 7th 2020.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 31 pull requests were merged (25 in code and 6 in docs) and 18 issues were closed (16 in code and 2 in docs). Excluding merges, 19 authors made 854 additions and 359 deletions. See details for code and docs.

3.4 changelog:

• f7749c3: [PhpUnitBridge] fixed compat with PHP 5.3
• d765a09: fixed Form annotation
• aee10cd: [Validator] fixed lazy property usage

4.4 changelog:

• f8d3b06: [Cache] fixed not supported Redis eviction policies
• 4528c11: [Serializer] do not transform empty \Traversable to Array
• a804333: [Form] provide a useful message when extension types don't match

Master changelog:

• 75e3d75: [DependencyInjection] limit recursivity of ResolveNoPreloadPass
• a114f8d: [Security] require entry_point to be configured with multiple authenticators
• 27c10f0: [HttpFoundation, HttpKernel] added more preload always-needed symbols
• 0633308: [FrameworkBundle] append files to preload in CacheWarmupCommand
• da6620c: [Notifier] fixed some Mattermost bridge errors
• ed1b6ea: [Messenger] added missing port SQS Host Header request
• c30d6f9: [Security] fixed bug introduced in entry_point configuration
• 1308dd5: [Security] renamed VerifyAuthenticatorCredentialsEvent to CheckPassportEvent
• 28bb74c: [SecurityBundle] fixed entry point service ID resolving and multiple guard entry points
• 09f9079: [Security] removed anonymous in the new security system

Newest issues and pull requests

• [RFC] [Translation] Profiler panel improvements
• Console: Support Left/Right Arrow Keys
• Ability to determine if Event was fired from TraceableEventDispatcher
• [FrameworkBundle][RFC] Introduce a new RedirectException
• [Workflow] Choose which Workflow events should be dispatched

They talked about us

• Using RabbitMQ in A Symfony Application Through Messenger Component
• Doctrine: cascade =remove VS orphanRemoval = true
• Symfony parameters and environment variables
• TailwindCSS with Webpack Encore
• Sulu 2.1 RC1 is here - with Symfony 5 Support, Nested Blocks and Deep Links
• Nuevo en Symfony 5.1: Stacks y middleware
• Nuevo en Symfony 5.1: Más y mejores integraciones
• Nuevo en Symfony 5.1: Resolución de URL
• Nuevo en Symfony 5.1: Mejoras en el serializador
• Validasi Form API Platform + Symfony
• Как переиспользовать код с бандлами Symfony 5? Часть 5. Конфигурация
• Symfony FormTypeの使い方(使ったことあるものだけ)

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