February 16–22, 2026 A Week of Symfony #999

This week, development activity focused on misc fixes and improvements across all maintained Symfony branches. In addition, we published more information about the SymfonyLive Berlin 2026 and SymfonyLive Paris 2026 conferences.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 74 pull requests were merged (30 in code and 44 in docs) and 51 issues were closed (19 in code and 32 in docs). Excluding merges, 31 authors made 4,958 additions and 552 deletions. See details for code and docs.

6.4 changelog:

• 392ef17: [CssSelector] fix memory exhaustion by adding an LRU cache to CssSelectorConverter
• 2ec73ac: [Serializer] fix passing context option to property-info
• bb87151: remove usages of the deprecated any() invoked count expectation
• cfed34d: [Cache] wrap DoctrineDbalAdapter::doSave() in savepoint to prevent transaction poisoning

7.4 changelog:

• c373bd8: [Serializer] fix constructor parameter type override when property type extractor returns a different type
• df22991: [TypeInfo] TypeContextFactory::collectTemplates now also works with @phpstan-template and @psalm-template
• 997d9b7: [Console] fix profiling commands that use #[Ask]

8.1 changelog:

• 9458e29: [HttpFoundation] improve error message for InputBag::getInt()/getBool()
• cfccd37: [Messenger] improve PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY idle listener
• 43359f4: [Messenger] add return type for TraceableMessageBus
• a9a7c24: [FrameworkBundle] add MicroKernelTrait::$allowedEnvs to enforce allowed values for APP_ENV
• 8c1ab34: [FrameworkBundle] add MicroKernelTrait::getAllowedEnvs() to list and enforce allowed values for APP_ENV

Newest issues and pull requests

• [DependencyInjection] Deprecate named autowiring alias that don't use #[Target]
• [TypeInfo] Support @psalm-assert on Type::accept()
• [FrameworkBundle][Messenger][RFC] Deprecate 'senders' nesting level in routing config
• [RFC] Respond with 404 for unknown fragment controllers

Symfony Jobs

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• The DQL vs. Native SQL Showdown
• Stop Using if Statements for Security: The Power of Symfony Voters
• Mastering Symfony Rate Limiting: Compound Limits done right
• Tracking State Changes in API Platform: The Power of ['previous_data']
• Implementing URL signer in Pagination in Symfony 7
• Stop Hardcoding Your Business Logic: Using Symfony Expression Language for Dynamic Features
• Mutualiser les autorisations Symfony avec un voter générique

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