This week, Symfony 6.4.0 and Symfony 7.0.0 stable versions were released. We also published a Symfony 7 landing page to summarize the main new features of this version. In addition, we introduced the Symfony 7 certification. Lastly, the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference will take place next week.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 69 pull requests were merged (55 in code and 14 in docs) and 35 issues were closed (33 in code and 2 in docs). Excluding merges, 34 authors made 1,991 additions and 3,818 deletions. See details for code and docs.

5.4 changelog:

  • e95605c: [Validator] made tests forward-compatible with ICU 72.1
  • 0fe7090: [DependencyInjection] don't check parameter values if they are not set
  • ce95b87: [Routing] fix removing aliases pointing to removed route in RouteCollection::remove()
  • db0a0ce: [Messenger] add parameter types in query builder
  • 735959c: [PhpUnitBridge] run composer update for compatibility with PHPUnit versions shipping composer.lock
  • e88a7f7: [Routing] restore aliases removal in RouteCollection::remove()
  • 410490c: [Serializer] fix support of plain object types denormalization
  • a0e10fd: [HttpClient, Mailer, Process] always pass microseconds to usleep as integers
  • 80b5ce4: add missing translations for Bulgarian

6.3 changelog:

  • 706b67e: [VarExporter] fix serializing objects that implement __sleep() and that are made lazy
  • 2a00e60: [VarExporter] work around a PHP bug for lazy objects, fixing nullsafe-related behavior
  • fd5bc71: [VarExporter] fix lazy ghost trait when using nullsafe operator
  • 2a89505: [DependencyInjection] fix dumping containers with null-referenced services

6.4 changelog:

  • 2fb94e4: [HttpClient] add Innovative Web AG (i-web) as sponsor of version 6.4/7.0
  • 929749e: [Routing] add redirection.io as sponsor of versions 6.4/7.0/7.1
  • b249967: [Console] add Les-Tilleuls.coop as sponsor of version 6.4/7.0
  • 0fe7090: [DependencyInjection] don't check parameter values if they are not set
  • 9144962: fix legacy class palceholder definitions for static analysis
  • 83d0106: [Routing] fix conflicting FQCN aliases with route name
  • ce95b87: [Routing] fix removing aliases pointing to removed route in RouteCollection::remove()
  • 8cd61c5: [AssetMapper] upgrade asset mapper to 6.4 fails due to invalid entries "downloaded_to" and "preload"

7.0 changelog:

  • 5dac6a1: [VarDumper] remove not needed method existance check
  • 7a66efd: update sponsors of Symfony 7.0: Shopware, Sulu and Les-Tilleuls + Sensiolabs for Messenger & SymfonyCasts for Security components

7.1 changelog:

  • 6283597: [DependencyInjection] remove useless setAccessible() calls

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