This week, development activity focused on new security features. The upcoming Symfony 7.3 version added support for security voters to explain their vote, improved the IsGranted attribute to allow using PHP callables, and made some changes to enhance the DX of recent security additions.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 32 pull requests were merged (22 in code and 10 in docs) and 16 issues were closed (12 in code and 4 in docs). Excluding merges, 20 authors made 3,158 additions and 1,765 deletions. See details for code and docs.

6.4 changelog:

  • f48cf1b: [Semaphore] allow redis cluster/sentinel dsn
  • 757fcbb: [Mime] use address for body at PathHeader
  • b88f9b5: [Validator] synchronize IBAN formats
  • d6e0af4: [DependencyInjection] defer check for circular references instead of skipping them
  • 365aca3: [Stopwatch] fix StopWatchEvent never throws InvalidArgumentException

7.2 changelog:

  • 33f70b7: [TypeInfo] fix create union with nullable type
  • 385efaf: [DependencyInjection] fix phpdoc for $configurator in Autoconfigure attribute

7.3 changelog:

  • 2962567: [Security] add ability for voters to explain their vote
  • f48e068: [Messenger] add TransportMessageIdStamp logic for AMQP
  • 3ef4f4e: [Notifier] return the record CID as additional info in Bluesky bridge
  • ab6c611: [Security] allow using a callable with #[IsGranted]
  • 77b8358: [TypeInfo] add type alias support
  • 560a484: [Framework] deprecate the framework.validation.cache config option
  • dfd8e53: [Validator] add support for closures in When constraint
  • 68944f5: [JsonEncoder] replace normalizers by value transformers
  • 0fc079f: [Messenger] add options to specify SQS queue attributes and tags
  • aa53b94: [PropertyInfo] replace NameScope by TypeInfo's TypeContext
  • 0c7c251: [Security] improve DX of recent additions

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 5.11.0, version with the following changes:

  • Improve cleaning up stale temp directories if workers fail to shutdown (@tucksaun)
  • Extract WSL check fron symfony-cli/console package (@tucksaun)
  • Make command names case insensitive (@tucksaun)
  • Fix Docker client version (@fabpot)
  • Bump proxy and dependencies (@fabpot)

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SymfonyCasts Updates

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