A Week of Symfony #830 (21-27 November 2022)

This week, the first release candidate of Symfony 6.2 was published in preparation for the final version release in a few days. Meanwhile, Symfony announced its Black Friday 2022 discounts and the program for the upcoming SymfonyWorld Online 2022 conference.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 47 pull requests were merged (28 in code and 19 in docs) and 17 issues were closed (14 in code and 3 in docs). See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

• 0f670bb: [DependencyInjection] process bindings in ServiceLocatorTagPass
• 51cdc3a: [HttpKernel] fix message for unresovable arguments of invokable controllers

5.4 changelog:

• dd304b3: [PropertyInfo] ignore const expressions read by phpdocumentor
• 3f6d50f: [Notifier] fix true/false mismatch for test_mode option in SMSBiuras
• 961dcec: [FrameworkBundle] do not wire the MercureTransportFactory if the MercureBundle is not enabled
• 7d1147c: [Yaml] parse unquoted digits in tag values as integers

6.2 changelog:

• 2dc0670: add more \SensitiveParameter attributes in the code
• 648d84f: [HttpFoundation] rename session expiry index
• 521d210: [HttpKernel] remove duplicate+unclear deprecation
• 0f670bb: [DependencyInjection] process bindings in ServiceLocatorTagPass
• 9eafa3e: [VarExporter] list required properties in lazy traits
• 19940ff: [Security] support loading UserBadge directly from accessToken
• 894adcb: [VarExporter] improve partial-initialization API for ghost objects
• ea658c4: [Clock] implement PSR-20
• 25026b3: [SecurityBundle] fix logout.csrf_token_generator default value
• a97d79a: [FrameworkBundle] fix too eager deprecations for PhpAstExtractor

Newest issues and pull requests

• Maximum expected lock duration for rate limiter
• [Mailer] Option to enforce STARTTLS
• [HttpKernel] Post request with HttpCache should not invalidate cache
• [Serializer] Allow to serialize to parent class if none match for DiscriminatorMap

SymfonyCasts Updates

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

• (Video) Design Patterns for Fun and Proficiency, Chapter 10: Publish-Subscriber (PubSub)
• (Video) Design Patterns for Fun and Proficiency, Chapter 11: Pub Sub Event Class & Subscribers in Symfony
• (Video) Netgen Layouts: Building Pages with Symfony, Chapter 6: Adding Lists: Value Type
• (Video) Netgen Layouts: Building Pages with Symfony, Chapter 7: Value Converter
• (Video) Netgen Layouts: Building Pages with Symfony, Chapter 8: Item View Template

They talked about us

• Centralized exception handling with Symfony and custom PHP attributes
• Symfony Station Communiqué - 25 November 2022
• Create a custom channel into Symfony Notifier
• How to Encrypt And Decrypt a varchar with doctrine and Symfony
• We are open-sourcing a silly Slack bot, guess what it does!
• Retour Sur le SymfonyCon 2022
• Introduction à l’API REST avec Symfony 6 & DB sous docker
• Retour sur la SymfonyCon 2022 (Les-Tilleuls.coop)

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