March 10–16, 2025 A Week of Symfony #950

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version updated lazy services to use PHP native lazy objects and added a feature to define global translation parameters. Meanwhile, the existing Symfony versions fixed support for PHP 8.4 hooks and asymmetric visibility in VarExporter.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 37 pull requests were merged (18 in code and 19 in docs) and 38 issues were closed (15 in code and 23 in docs). Excluding merges, 19 authors made 38,311 additions and 5,315 deletions. See details for code and docs.

6.4 changelog:

• 5ae227c: [VarExporter] fix support for hooks and asymmetric visibility
• 1c59de1: [Cache] fix missing cache data in profiler
• bb07d18: [Process] use a pipe for stderr in pty mode to avoid mixed output between stdout and stderr

7.2 changelog:

• 9f7257e: [TypeInfo] fix @var tag reading for promoted properties

7.3 changelog:

• c11abf2: [AssetMapper] add --dry-run option on importmap:require command
• 36092eb: [Translation] allow defining default parameters
• 9522e62: [Cache] remove legacy "redis_sentinel" option (it was replaced "sentinel")
• 0c11d82: [DependencyInjection] leverage native lazy objects for lazy services
• 6c0058a: [FrameworkBundle] add --method option to debug:router command
• cf5270c: [TypeInfo] add ArrayShapeType class
• d768193: [Console] fixed support for Kernel as command

Newest issues and pull requests

• [ExpressionLanguage] Add support for Nullsafe syntax for Array Access
• [Serializer] Add support for fractions in DateIntervalNormalizer
• [MonologBridge] Add ability to react to console input being interactive or not
• [Mailer][TwigBridge] Add support for translatable subject

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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: Emails Assertions in Functional Tests
• (Video) Symfony 7 - Mailer and Webhook with Mailtrap: Email Twig Layout

They talked about us

• Symfony Station Communiqué - 14 March 2025
• Simple Input Validation with Symfony Live Components
• La nécessité de migrer vos applications Symfony : un enjeu stratégique pour votre entreprise

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