This week, Symfony continued adding support for the upcoming PHP 8.4 version in all maintained Symfony branches. Meanwhile, the next Symfony 7.1 release improved performance when creating lazy objects, added support for workflows that need to store many tokens in the marking and introduced a new AutowireMethodOf attribute to autowire a method of a service as a callable.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 72 pull requests were merged (48 in code and 24 in docs) and 36 issues were closed (29 in code and 7 in docs). Excluding merges, 30 authors made 29,767 additions and 54,634 deletions. See details for code and docs.

5.4 changelog:

  • c6506c4: [ErrorHandler] fix exit code when an exception occurs and the exception handler has been unregistered
  • 0a7825b: [HttpClient] lazily initialize CurlClientState
  • 864df6f: [Mailer] fix sendmail transport not handling failure
  • 6b550a1: [Validator] allow BIC first four characters to be digits
  • 9d362b1: [VarDumper] fix test suite with PHP 8.4
  • c44cc73: [Lock] compatiblity with Redis cluster 7
  • 6fadff7: [Lock] check the correct SQLSTATE error code for MySQL
  • 3fbca7b: [Security] correctly initialize the voter property
  • e05d922: [Filesystem] fix str_contains deprecation
  • cb3ec06: [FrameworkBundle] fix mailer config with XML
  • 07a6ffe: [Cache, Lock] identify missing table in pgsql correctly and address failing integration tests
  • 9fe7efc: Update Greek translation
  • 43d643b: Update Arabic translation

6.4 changelog:

  • 37e436f: [HttpKernel] fix creating ReflectionMethod with only one argument
  • ad56682: [Messenger] trigger retry logic when message is a redelivery
  • dc4f3fb: [PropertyAccess] fix checking for missing properties
  • e17b65c: [Validator] add missing invalid extension error entry
  • bf1ffd3: [DependencyInjection] fix XmlDumper when a tag contains also a 'name' property
  • 4bd3b29: [Mailer] check that tags are present in Brevo payload before calling setTags

7.0 changelog:

  • b0b0b47: [VarDumper] prevent error in value to Typed property must not be accessed before initialization

7.1 changelog:

  • 62d272c: [FrameworkBundle, Workflow] attach the workflow's configuration to the workflow tag
  • a0721fd: [VarExporter] improve performance when creating lazy objects
  • 20d5453: [HttpFoundation] improve the return type of ParameterBag::getEnum
  • e49f84b: [PhpUnitBridge] enhance CoverageListenerTests
  • 965283a: [Console] add ArgvInput::getRawTokens()
  • 83872ca: [Workflow] add support for workflows that need to store many tokens in the marking
  • 10bc796: [DependencyInjection] add #[AutowireMethodOf] attribute to autowire a method of a service as a callable

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 5.8.12 version with the following changes:

  • Updated the PHP 7.2.x versions to the (current) PHP 8.2.x in de local:php:list text output (@cafferata)
  • Fix chunked requests are not supported (@tucksaun)
  • Add alias for server:ls (@lyrixx)

SymfonyCasts Updates

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This week, SymfonyCasts published the following updates:

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