This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version deprecated the XML configuration format for services and routing, introduced new attributes to configure console arguments, deprecated the get() method of the Request class, and improved the caching HTTP client.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 64 pull requests were merged (51 in code and 13 in docs) and 46 issues were closed (29 in code and 17 in docs). Excluding merges, 29 authors made additions and deletions. See details for code and docs.

6.4 changelog:

  • 372d809: [Form] do not cast too big floats to int
  • 6e045bf: [Mailer] fix forbidden headers case-sensitive comparison in MailJet
  • d7186d2: [Intl] support time in generated data in currencies validity
  • 4afa086: [Serializer] fix discriminator class mapping with allow_extra_attributes=false
  • 07a5ed4: [Console] ensure terminal is usable after termination signal
  • 4221e02: [Form] keep labels from configured choices
  • 56398ed: [Cache] fix compatibility with Relay 0.12

7.3 changelog:

  • fa57daf: [TypeInfo] ArrayShape can resolve key type as callable instead of string
  • 6b6a6a5: [Scheduler] don't get next run date from null
  • 26f9bbb: [FrameworkBundle] fix support of dumping workflow when workflow is decorated by TraceableWorkflow

7.4 changelog:

  • 37029cc: [Config] config builders should accept booleans for array nodes that can be enabled or disabled
  • 9c413a3: [HttpClient] make CachingHttpClient compatible with RFC 9111
  • 2284ac7: [Serializer] XML empty array encoding
  • 4da3b18: [Lock] replace PHPUnit annotation with attribute
  • b68f0e6: [Config] add array-shapes to generated config builders
  • d95fb96: [DependencyInjection] handle returning arrays and config-builders from config files
  • 172e24c: [Config, DependencyInjection, Routing] deprecate using $this or the internal scope of the loader from PHP config files
  • 9731ad4: [DependencyInjection, Routing] handle declaring services and routes using PHP arrays that follow the same shape as corresponding YAML files
  • e725892: [HtmlSanitizer] remove redundant assignment to promoted property config
  • c8e4bf8: [Form] add new active_at, not_active_at and legal_tender options to CurrencyType
  • 74fc896: [DependencyInjection, Routing] deprecate XML configuration format
  • 127d329: [Console] rename #[Input] to #[MapInput]
  • 00bb316: [Validator] bad value on AbstractComparison constructor using array parameter
  • 6b38714: [DependencyInjection] deprecate ExtensionInterface::getXsdValidationBasePath() and getNamespace()
  • 99363c0: [Workflow] move the dump command to the component
  • 3786682: [Validator] fix handling Doctrine-style options handling
  • 28fba80: [HttpFoundation] deprecate Request::get() in favor of using properties ->attributes, query or request directly
  • 770dc40: [Console] add support for interactive invokable commands with #[Interact] and #[Ask] attributes

8.0 changelog:

  • 1c3f572: [FrameworkBundle] remove deprecated --show-arguments from debug:container command
  • 3ce1fa9: [DependencyInjection, Routing] remove support for the XML configuration format

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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 5.15.0, and 5.15.1 versions with the following changes:

  • Fix early return (@chirimoya)
  • Bump deps (@fabpot)
  • Wrap the deploy Cloud command to warn about the ambiguity (@fabpot)
  • Rename Platform.sh to Upsun Fixed and Upsun to Upsun Flex (@fabpot)
  • PSH is now Upsun (@tucksaun)
  • Bump Go to 1.25 (@tucksaun)
  • Add missing Git guards (@fabpot)

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