A Week of Symfony #779 (29 November - 5 December 2021)

This week, Symfony 5.4.0 and 6.0.0 stable versions were released. In addition, SymfonyInsight announced its support for PHP 8.1. Finally, the SymfonyWorld Online conference is coming next week.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 60 pull requests were merged (43 in code and 17 in docs) and 45 issues were closed (41 in code and 4 in docs). Excluding merges, 34 authors made 55,747 additions and 70,478 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

• cacce1c: [Debug, ErrorHandler] increase the reserved memory from 10k to 32k
• 382cde2: [Validator] fix validation for single level domains
• daba023: [HttpClient] fix handling error info in MockResponse
• e0cadfb: [DoctrineBridge] fix calling get_class on non-object
• e9acd68: [Doctrine Bridge] prevent infinite nesting of lazy ObjectManager instances when ObjectManager is reset

5.3 changelog:

• 7fd34c4: [Security] do not overwrite already stored tokens for REMOTE_USER authentication
• c19bc94: [Translation] fix idempotency of LocoProvider write method
• af596bf: [Messenger] leverage DBAL's getNativeConnection() method

5.4 changelog:

• 0ac7aa2: [Framework] add completion to debug:event-dispatcher
• 4a07e06: [Lock] create lock table if it does not exist
• 9858ad7: [HttpFoundation] fix SessionHandlerFactory using connections
• e8babbd: [HttpKernel] fix sending Vary Accept-Language when appropriate
• a57a342: [Security] document deprecations in PreAuthenticatedToken
• ea88d80: [SecurityBundle] don't rely on deprecated strategy constants

6.0 changelog:

• 7fd34c4: [Security] do not overwrite already stored tokens for REMOTE_USER authentication
• 8c68599: [SecurityBundle] fix invalid reference with always_authenticate_before_granting
• 5c4e684: [HttpKernel] fix using FileLinkFormatter after serialization

Newest issues and pull requests

• [Translation] Send If-Modified-Since or If-None-Match header when pulling translations

SymfonyCasts Updates

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These were some of the most relevant SymfonyCasts updates of the week:

• (Video) Symfony 5 Security, Chapter 27: Impersonation: switch_user
• (Video) Symfony 5 Security, Chapter 28: User API & the Serializer
• (Video) Symfony 5 Security, Chapter 29: To use API Token Authentication or Not?
• (Video) Symfony 5 Security, Chapter 30: Registration Form
• (Video) Symfony 5 Security, Chapter 31: Manual Authentication

They talked about us

• What’s this upcoming Encryption component of Symfony 6.1?
• How to create an automated pipeline for deploy with Symfony 5 and DigitalOcean App Platform
• Build and Deploy a Symfony Application on AWS using CDK, ECS and RDS
• Symfony Station Communique — 3 December 2021. A Look at Symfony and PHP News

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