A Week of Symfony #744 (29 March - 4 April 2021)

This week, Symfony 4.4.21 and 5.2.6 maintenance versions were released. In addition, the Symfony 5 book published new updates for Symfony 5.2 and it's now available in 13 different languages.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 45 pull requests were merged (40 in code and 5 in docs) and 23 issues were closed (22 in code and 1 in docs). Excluding merges, 27 authors made 3,951 additions and 1,260 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

• 5dad871: [Messenger] add missing queue_name to find(id) in Doctrine messenger transport
• e16be83: [Serializer] allow AbstractNormalizer to use null for non-optional nullable constructor parameters without default value
• 2ceb35a: [Cache] skip storing failure-to-save as misses in ArrayAdapter
• 990b51b: [DependencyInjection] fix "url" env var processor behavior when the url has no path
• cc7d126: [FrameworkBundle] Don't store cache misses on warmup
• bd90627: [Config] fixed support for nodes not extending BaseNode
• 4e4cdf5: [Yaml] fix parsing some block sequences

5.2 changelog:

• 87a67be: [FrameworkBundle] don't access the container to configure http_cache
• 481222f: [Config, FrameworkBundle] hint to use PHP 8+ or to install Annotations for using attributes/annotations
• 54209bb: [Stopwatch] document new "name" property of StopwatchEvent
• bd90627: [Config] fixed support for nodes not extending BaseNode

5.x changelog:

• c14d189: [Notifier] add the FakeSms bridge
• 3154509: [FrameworkBundle] add an helper to generate fragments URL
• 6f4b0a3: [Messenger] fix deprecation layer in AbstractFailedMessagesCommand
• 4d23fec: [RateLimiter] fix sleep value
• bb1e1e5: [Security] LoginLink create get Request Locale

Symfony CLI

Symfony CLI is a must-have tool when developing Symfony applications on your local machine. It includes the Symfony Local Server, the best way to run local Symfony applications. This week Symfony CLI released its new 4.23.3 version with the following changes:

• Fix project:create when not logged in
• Switch to Composer 2 by default if available
• Add more supported PHP extensions on SymfonyCloud for PHP 8.0
• Switch to PHP 8.0 as a default version when creating a new SymfonyCloud project

Newest issues and pull requests

• [Security][DX] RFC: A simple way to do programmatic login
• [Security][DX] RFC: A simple way to do programmatic logout
• [HttpClient] Should getInfo() return more request info

They talked about us

• A quick way to browse Symfony Logs with PHPStorm
• Complete guide to Integrate Symfony 5.2 with angular 9.0.0
• A beginner’s guide on JWT authentication Symfony 5 API based
• Vue.js and Twig (in Symfony)
• Use PHPStorm Live Templates for Doctrine fields
• Dockerize a Symfony project (Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB)

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