This week, Symfony development focused on the upcoming Symfony 6.1 version, finishing some new features for it and polishing its already merged new features.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 31 pull requests were merged (25 in code and 6 in docs) and 23 issues were closed (16 in code and 7 in docs) by 24 authors. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

4e63f55: [VarDumper, WebProfilerBundle] replace deprecated String.prototype.substr()
5116846: [Messenger] fix 'Undefined index: headers' notice when using Oracle
fd1c94b: use mb_convert_encoding instead of utf8_decode
8b6f56e: [FrameworkBundle] always add CacheCollectorPass
8d24d0a: [DoctrineBridge, FrameworkBundle, Messenger] indicate support for doctrine/persistence 3
f0ffa47: modify processing of uploaded files to be compatible with PHP 8.1

5.4 changelog:

c14d0a1: [Routing] fix router base url when default uri has trailing slash
7f37797: [String] fix ansi escape sequences regex

6.1 changelog:

9391281: [DoctrineBridge] restore PHP8 features for Doctrine debug middlewares
7617a3b, 55f6d9d: [Notifier] allow to send SMSApi messages in test mode
8d29cc7: [PropertyInfo] add support for promoted properties in PhpStanExtractor
aad8aee: [VarDumper] remove casters for mysql link resource and removed DOM classes
84d35a2: [DependencyInjection] add AsDecorator class attribute and InnerService parameter attribute
e740a11: [FrameworkBundle] add support for route attributes in kernel controller methods
4e39d25: [Routing] add params variable to condition expression
d838f46: [FrameworkBundle] deprecate not setting http_method_override
2add2f2: [DependencyInjection] rename #[InnerService] to #[MapDecorated]

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 5.4.8 version with the following changes:

Try to detect NixOS installation of composer (@tucksaun)
Fix the PATH value when executing PHP (@tucksaun)

SymfonyCasts Updates

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A Week of Symfony #799 (18-24 April 2022)