A Week of Symfony #746 (12-18 April 2021)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.3 version introduced ConfigBuilder classes to configure packages using fluent and semantic PHP methods instead of plain arrays, it added a feature to autowire arguments using attributes, improved performance of Intl component by switching resources from JSON to PHP and introduced a handleForm() helper in the AbstractController class.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 101 pull requests were merged (58 in code and 43 in docs) and 37 issues were closed (25 in code and 12 in docs). Excluding merges, 53 authors made 356,601 additions and 347,853 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

• e05b4ef: [HttpKernel] minor fixes and tweaks in the Symfony Welcome Page
• 8c43fac: [Cache] apply NullAdapter as Null Object
• e1f2e81: [SecurityBundle] empty line starting with dash under "access_control" causes all rules to be skipped
• 094b459: [FrameworkBundle] fix missing class in messenger service locator definitions
• 236e61b: [PropertyInfo] use the right context for methods defined in traits
• d5e8d6e: [HttpFoundation] RequestMatcher issue when _controller is a closure
• 3a021a7: [DoctrineBridge] add support for a driver type "attribute"
• a24f389: [Console] added phpdocs to InputOption constants

5.2 changelog:

• ade71f0: [WebProfilerBundle] use ControllerReference instead of URL in twig render()
• 094b459: [FrameworkBundle] fix missing class in messenger service locator definitions
• 449c60f: [FrameworkBundle] fix array controller link in debug:router

5.x changelog:

• 9092d5b: [Notifier] inject Mailer instead of service locator for FakeSms and FakeChat
• 40b4ff8: [Messenger] add X-Ray trace header support to the SQS transport
• 64cc548: [Security] deprecate using UsageTrackingTokenStorage outside the request-response cycle
• ff0cf61: [MonologBridge] reset loggers on workers
• 02704e9: [Workflow] add Mermaid.js dumper
• 3bfd7bb: [Security] remove experimental status of LoginLink
• c69cc3f: [Security] stop using a shared changelog for our security packages
• 44bb691, b1da7bd: [Config, DependencyInjection] add configuration builder for writing PHP config
• 87d031c: [Messenger] support Redis Cluster
• dd919a7: [DependencyInjection] autowire arguments using attributes
• cc29772: [Notifier] add SmsBiuras notifier bridge
• 672ec7f: [FrameworkBundle] add argument KernelInterface to BuildDebugContainerTrait::getContainerBuilder()
• b2f269e: [Form] add support for sorting fields
• 6e02d8b: [Security] remove the experimental flag from the authenticator system
• 1a4bd73: improve deprecation message for session
• 48ae511: [DependencyInjection, Routing] access environment in PHP config
• 3b10824: [Config, FrameworkBundle] add CacheWarmer for ConfigBuilder
• f14b1bf: [Routing] fix supporting string "methods" and "schemes" on the Route annotation
• 501c310: [Intl] switch from JSON to PHP resources
• 236e61b: [PropertyInfo] use the right context for methods defined in traits
• 1ca10f5: [Notifier] add MessageBird notifier bridge
• 549c097: [FrameworkBundle] add AbstractController::handleForm() helper
• 0eebd9e: [Security] add passport to AuthenticationTokenCreatedEvent
• 2edebff: [FrameworkBundle] add missing notifier transport factories to framework extension
• 4cac9cf: [DependencyInjection] add #[When(env: 'foo')] to skip autoregistering a class when the env doesn't match
• 3fd41ce: [FrameworkBundle] add basic tests for the notifier framework bundle integration
• d8e4af2: [FrameworkBundle, Notifier] fix wrong class name usage
• 1a87c72: [SecurityBundle] deprecate public services to private

Newest issues and pull requests

• [DX] Static vs. runtime env vars
• [Form] Add option choice_html to allow HTML content in ChoiceType labels
• Feature request: fight against Google FLoC
• [HttpFoundation][DX] Don't add the whole response to test failure description

They talked about us

• Login Link (password less) with Symfony
• The new features of the Symfony Security component from 5.2
• How to manually sign-in a registered user in Symfony 5
• JoliCode: Retour sur le SymfonyLive Online French Edition 2021
• Prestashop: Retour sur le SymfonyLive Online French Edition 2021

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