A Week of Symfony #797 (4-10 April 2022)

This week, Symfony celebrated the SymfonyLive Paris 2022 conference, one of the first official non-virtual Symfony conferences since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The next opportunity to meet the community in person will be the SymfonyCon Disneyland Paris 2022 conference on November 17-18, 2022. Meanwhile, we started publishing the New in Symfony 6.1 blog posts in preparation for its upcoming release.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 31 pull requests were merged (19 in code and 12 in docs) and 37 issues were closed (30 in code and 7 in docs). Excluding merges, 25 authors made 24,208 additions and 6,033 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

• 81c9e39: [Process] fix Process::getEnv() when setEnv() hasn't been called before
• 0a0345a: [FrameworkBundle] fix error related to debug:router --no-interaction
• 7f0edd6: [Intl] update the ICU data to 71.1
• 69f7f6e: [Console] fix table header seperator wrapping

5.4 changelog:

• 2195545: [RateLimiter] adding default empty string value on Security::LAST_USERNAME
• dcd1c32: [HttpKernel] fix use_cookies framework session configuration

6.1 changelog:

• 1b75cc0: [ExpressionLanguage] add support for null-safe operator
• 9c37015: [TwigBridge] make LintCommand::$namePatterns private
• fb40adc: [Notifier] improve some type annotations
• f923f15: [Notifier] add no_stop_clause to DSN in OvhCloud
• 1f514f9: use modern PHP features such as array_is_list(), get_debug_type(), is_countable(), is_iterable(), str_contains() and str_starts_with()

Newest issues and pull requests

• [RFC] Change the way deprecations are reported?
• Automatically disable http client tracing / logging when approaching memory limit
• [Translation] Add support for named arguments in PhpExtractor
• Annotation or Attribute to set parameters similar to bind
• Set memory limit for preloading
• [Lock] Log successfully released lock

SymfonyCasts Updates

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

• (Video) Symfony 6 course, Chapter 13: Smart Routes: GET-only & Validate {Wildcards}
• (Video) Symfony 6 course, Chapter 14: Service Objects
• (Video) Symfony 6 course, Chapter 15: The Twig Service & Profiler for API Requests
• (Video) Symfony 6 course, Chapter 16: Setting up Webpack Encore
• (Video) Symfony 6 course, Chapter 17: Packaging JS and CSS with Encore
• (Video) EasyAdmin course, Chapter 38: A Global "Export" Action
• (Video) EasyAdmin course, Chapter 39: Linking to EasyAdmin from Twig
• (Video) EasyAdmin course, Chapter 40: Form Panels

They talked about us

• Symfony Station Communiqué - 8 April 2022
• Symfony ElasticSearch, Front Controller, API documentation

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