A Week of Symfony #890 (15-21 January 2024)

This week, we celebrated the SymfonyOnline January 2024 conference with great success. The development activity was less intense than usual because of the online conference and mostly focused on fixing bugs of stable Symfony versions.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 45 pull requests were merged (24 in code and 21 in docs) and 32 issues were closed (16 in code and 16 in docs). Excluding merges, 35 authors made code 13,230 additions and 4,976 deletions. See details for code and docs.

5.4 changelog:

• 9e74afd: [VarDumper] fix missing colors initialization in CliDumper
• 766676f, 9529c23: [String] fix the inflection of some words
• 4460eb4: [Security] fix AuthenticationUtils::getLastUsername() returning null
• c7bafc2: [TwigBundle] fix configuration when "paths" is null
• 1c7c730: [Console] only execute additional checks for color support if the output

6.3 changelog:

• f845c6e: [Mailer] register the MailPaceTransportFactory

7.0 changelog:

• 3368c3f: [Ldap] use {user_identifier} over deprecated {username} in factories

7.1 changelog:

• b40b65d: [Validator] fix charset encoding detection in CharsetValidator
• 96ee1fd: [Mailer] add Azure and Resend support to the UnsupportedSchemeException
• 12f4697: [Notifier] register missing Notifier transport factories

Newest issues and pull requests

• Handle all expression errors
• Skip cacheable voters in AccessDecisionManager::getVoters

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 5.8.3 version with the following changes:

• Tweak comment (@fabpot)
• Fix test data (@fabpot)

SymfonyCasts Updates

SymfonyCasts is the official way to learn Symfony. Select a track for a guided path through 100+ video tutorial courses about Symfony, PHP and JavaScript.

This week, SymfonyCasts published the following updates:

• (Video) Live Stream #5: A Day in the Life of Getting Live Components to stable
• (New course) Upgrading & What's in Symfony 7

They talked about us

• Symfony Station Communiqué - 19 January 2024
• Installing and using php-cs-fixer in Symfony applications
• Designing fine-grained independent features using Symfony and Strategy Pattern
• How to ensure that all the routes on my Symfony app have access control
• Task Scheduling with Symfony
• Connecting a Symfony app to the DB using Docker — Mac Users with OrbStack
• Performance benchmark of PHP runtimes when running a Symfony 7 application
• Creando un bundle de Symfony desde Cero
• Installation et utilisation de php-cs-fixer

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