This week, Symfony development activity focused on merging pending new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 versions. In addition, we announced a new conference: SymfonyDay Montreal on June 4, 2026, and made a call for volunteers for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 64 pull requests were merged (59 in code and 5 in docs) and 31 issues were closed (28 in code and 3 in docs). Excluding merges, 35 authors made 4,479 additions and 1,373 deletions. See details for code and docs.

6.4 changelog:

  • 1f64ca9: [Intl] remove incorrect condition in CurrencyDataGenerator::icuPairToDate
  • 917a2af: [Config] fix GlobResource pattern with trailing slash
  • 00934e2: [Console] don't automatically append EOT to multiline test inputs
  • f1fb422: [FrameworkBundle] normalize workflow places separately
  • 63fccc4: [Console] don't append a new line to test inputs ending with an EOT
  • a90e5f0: [Validator] restore translation source entries
  • 92a6bd1: replace __sleep/wakeup() by __(un)serialize() for throwing and internal usages
  • 85b7f4a: [PhpUnitBridge] silence deprecation of __sleep/wakeup()
  • 4a75888: [PhpUnitBridge] do not try to modify the result of a PhptTestCase
  • c6e2837: [HttpKernel] handle an array vary header in the http cache store for write
  • 2924491: [Console] fix handling of \E in Bash completion

7.3 changelog:

  • 037e66f: [SecurityBundle] add missing fixXmlConfig() call for issuer
  • 91f04e9: [MonologBridge] make ConsoleHandler not handle messages at SILENT verbosity
  • 903e28d: [Security] fix #[IsCsrfTokenValid] to ensure $tokenKey is non-nullable
  • ce92504: [JsonPath] make the component RFC compliant
  • 84c65cb: [SecurityBundle] fix semantic configuration for singulars/plurals in XML
  • 741d418: [TypeInfo] improve BuiltinType::isIdentifiedBy() method performance
  • f4e417a: [TypeInfo] fix issue with merging union type with a nullable union type

7.4 changelog:

  • 3058e67: [Security] fix initializing key for reachable roles
  • facfb29: use >= operator in #[RequiresPhp] attributes to allow compatible versions
  • 4f4a40a, 615b0e9, 1da4bab, 07d0b39: [Config, Finder, Form, HttpFoundation] add better type information using PHPDoc
  • 639b911: [VarDumper] select HtmlDumper only if Accept header contains 'html'
  • 236b078: [Security] deprecate PersistentToken::getClass() and RememberMeDetails::getUserFqcn() in order to remove the user FQCN from the remember-me cookie in 8.0
  • 66b0c12: [WebProfilerBundle] show EventSource requests in debug toolbar
  • f603472: [Validator] add #[ExtendsValidationFor] to declare new constraints for a class
  • e0b50a7: [Serializer] add #[ExtendsSerializationFor] to declare new serialization attributes for a class
  • ac219f8: [Security] add $tokenSource argument to #[IsCsrfTokenValid] to support reading tokens from the query string or headers
  • be24a0e: [DoctrineBridge] use non-reserved keyword as key column name, quote key value
  • db6206e: [Messenger] introduce DefaultStampsProviderInterface
  • 4808873: [Console] add optional timeout for human interaction in QuestionHelper
  • 8496002: [Lock] fix package name for DynamoDB
  • c287443: [Lock] do not support sensitive option entries
  • 2471df3: [HttpKernel] refine ControllerEvent::getAttributes() and ControllerArgumentsEvent::getAttributes() return types
  • a6f969d: [Config] add argument $singular to NodeBuilder::arrayNode() to decouple plurals/singulars from XML
  • 13db1a0: [Serializer] allows to instantiate property when creating a NotNormalizableValueException
  • 3f60ead: [FrameworkBundle] allow to prepare session in functional tests
  • e088d76: [TwigBridge] call form_label_content block inside button_widget block
  • 2dcb076: [HttpFoundation] handle error when expected directory is a file

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