Symfony blog posts for December 2016
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New in Symfony 3.3: Cookie improvements
In Symfony 3.3, cookies include the new "max-age" attribute and they can be created via PHP strings thanks to a new named constructor.
SymfonyLive San Francisco: We’re back!
Save the date for SymfonyLive San Francisco 2017 coming back on October 19th and 20th downtown San Francisco! Website to come soon.
A week of symfony #521 (19-25 December 2016)
This week Symfony fixed some obsolete PHPUnit getMock() usage and introduced new method shortcuts for ArrayNodeDefinition. In addition, the upcoming Symfony 3.3 version proposed the creation of a new WebServerBundle and the deprecation of the Templating component.
New in Symfony 3.3: Improved command descriptors
Symfony 3.3 improves the formatting of the JSON and Markdown descriptors for console commands.
New in Symfony 3.3: Added new shortcut methods
In addition to some large new features, Symfony 3.3 will also contain minor tweaks to make your work a bit easier.
A week of symfony #520 (12-18 December 2016)
This week Symfony released the 2.7.22, 2.8.15, 3.1.8 and 3.2.1 maintenance versions. In addition, Symfony Components achieved 600 million downloads. Lastly, it was announced that Symfony 4.0 (to be released in November 2017) will require PHP 7.x.
New in Symfony 3.3: Improved the Profiler configuration panel
In Symfony 3.3, the Configuration panel of the Symfony Profiler will show more information about PHP and Symfony.
How to solve PHPUnit issues in Symfony 3.2 applications
How to solve the "Undefined class constant PARSE_CONSTANT" error displayed by PHPUnit when running tests in Symfony 3.2 applications.
A week of symfony #519 (5-11 December 2016)
This week, Symfony focused on fixing some of the issues reported for the recently published 3.2.0 version. In addition, we fixed some issues discovered after the PHP 7.1 version release. Lastly, Apc/WinCache/Xcache class loaders were deprecated in preparation of the upcoming deprecation of the entire ClassLoader component.
New in Symfony 3.3: Added support for formaction and formmethod attributes
In Symfony 3.3, the DomCrawler component added support for the formaction and formmethod attributes that form buttons can define to override the original action and method defined by the form.
New in Symfony 3.3: JSON authentication
The Symfony Security component provides out-of-the-box support for several authentication mechanisms, such as form logins and HTTP. In Symfony 3.3 we added a new mechanism based on JSON.
A week of symfony #518 (28 November - 4 December 2016)
This week Symfony 3.2.0 was published after six months of intense development activity and including more than 150 new features. Meanwhile, the SymfonyCon Berlin 2016 conference took place and a new project called "Symfony Flex" was announced to improve the way you work with Symfony.