This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.1 version added context builders to simplify the creation of serialization contexts. In addition, SymfonyCon announced that it's coming back as a physical conference at Disneyland Paris later this year (November 15-18, 2022).

Symfony development highlights

This week, 41 pull requests were merged (29 in code and 12 in docs) and 39 issues were closed (34 in code and 5 in docs). Excluding merges, 30 authors made 16,259 additions and 2,874 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

  • 19da12f: [Validator] fix minRatio and maxRatio when getting rounded
  • b7da2a0: [PropertyAccess] fix handling of uninitialized property of parent class
  • 2119155: [DomCrawler] ignore bad charsets
  • c569ef1: [Form] do not fix URL protocol for relative URLs
  • 5c67f40: [Serializer] make XmlEncoder stateless thus reentrant
  • c112bf1: [DependencyInjection] don't dump polyfilled classes in preload script
  • 582f572: [HttpClient] fix Content-Length header when possible
  • c2e179e: [DependencyInjection, FrameworkBundle] fix using PHP 8.1 enum as parameters
  • d3df7be: [PropertyAccessor] add missing TypeError catch
  • 1b695a9: [FrameworkBundle] fix log channel of TagAwareAdapter
  • 12b63b3: [Cache] fix connecting to Redis via a socket file

5.4 changelog:

  • 6413b64: [Mailer] ensure only a single tag can be used with Postmark
  • d7da823: [Mailer] allow Mailchimp to handle multiple TagHeader
  • b400f80: [Notifier] fix Microsoft Teams webhook URL
  • 56dd927: [WebProfilerBundle] fix wrong spacing in log message context/trace output
  • 5cb5880: [WebProfilerBundle] fix error count by log not displayed in WebProfilerBundle
  • 45a09a8: [DependencyInjection] fix AsEventListener not working on decorators

6.1 changelog:

  • 96e7830: [SecurityBundle] allow to specify a RequestMatcher directly in an ACL definition
  • 003254d: [Validator] check for file existence lazily in loaders
  • fac3060: [Serializer] add context builders
  • 4ad5d46: [Mailer] allow manually stop() of SmtpTransport
  • 74b8d16: [Translation] send If-Modified-Since header when possible to SaaS translators
  • 0758e59: [ErrorHandler] report overridden @Final constants

Newest issues and pull requests

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 5.3.0, 5.3.1 and 5.3.2 versions with the following changes:

  • Update Plaform.sh commands
  • Tunnel refactoring (#74)
  • Remove phpunit installation step in book:checkout (not needed anymore)
  • Improve the parsing of Platform.sh CLI commands (#76)
  • Force reloading PHP versions if no PHP versions found (#71)
  • Fix usage of tunnel:close in book:checkout
  • Fix required flag on psh commands
  • Fix command visibility
  • Fix Platform.sh command helps (#77)
  • Do not compare com.symfony.server.service-ignore case-sensitive
  • Add hooks for some Platform.sh commands (#75)
  • Add cloud:env:debug (#72)
  • Add --path flag to open:local
  • Disable Go module proxy
  • Fix Homebrew tap auth

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