A Week of Symfony #949 (3-9 March 2025)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version renamed the JsonEncoder component to JsonStreamer, added support for Valkey schemes in the Cache component and introduced a field_id() form helper.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 38 pull requests were merged (24 in code and 14 in docs) and 21 issues were closed (16 in code and 5 in docs). Excluding merges, 20 authors made additions and deletions. See details for code and docs.

6.4 changelog:

• 647dba0: [Console] fix progress bar messing output in section when there is an EOL

7.2 changelog:

• 653e42d: [Messenger] reduce keepalive request noise
• fa844c5: [PropertyInfo] extract no type @param annotation with PhpStanExtractor

7.3 changelog:

• 814dec2: [TwigBridge] remove remaining BC layers
• 656dc29: [Twig] remove support for Twig 2.x extra versions
• 0d92f86: [Validator] fix test setup and skip test until bug is fixed in PHP
• af2f36b: [JsonEncoder] rename the component to JsonStreamer
• 3590ca3: [Cache] add \Relay\Cluster support
• 89bae9c: [Messenger] allow to close the transport connection
• db5108d: [Cache] add support for valkey: / valkeys: schemes
• a9a1226: replace assertEmpty() with stricter assertions
• 6a029ec: [TwigBridge] add Twig field_id() form helper
• 9fb2ba2: [FrameworkBundle] fix autowiring RateLimiterFactoryInterface

Newest issues and pull requests

• [DependencyInjection] Leverage native lazy objects for lazy services
• [DoctrineBridge] DatePoint type
• HTTP Transport for Symfony Messenger
• [VarExporter] Leverage native lazy objects

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SymfonyCasts Updates

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This week, SymfonyCasts published the following updates:

• (Video) Symfony 7 - Mailer and Webhook with Mailtrap: Generating URLs in the CLI Environment
• (Article) Mailtrap Tutorial (Free) = Mailer + Webhook + Contributing back to Symfony

They talked about us

• Symfony Station Communiqué - 07 March 2025
• Custom PHPStan Rules to Improve Every Symfony project
• Boosting Symfony Performance with Symfony Runtime and OpenSwoole
• Streamline Symfony error tracking with GlitchTip
• Sortie d'API Platform 4.1 : la documentation au cœur de la découvrabilité des API
• Symfony + React: Основные проблемы и методы их решения

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