Symfony blog posts for March 2018
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Introducing the Symfony 4 certification
A new Symfony 4 certification exam is now available for developers who want to gain official recognition as Symfony experts.
March 30, 2018 · Published in #SymfonyNew in Symfony 4.1: Advanced Console Output
In Symfony 4.1, the output of console commands goes to the next level with multiple editable sections, overwritable contents and dynamic tables.
March 29, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.1: Messenger component
Symfony 4.1 adds a new Messenger component that helps applications send and receive messages to/from other applications or via message queues. It provides a message bus based on middlewares, some routing capabilities and built-in support for AMQP brokers.
March 28, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.1: Autowiring improvements
In Symfony 4.1 you can autowire scalar values to controller action arguments and the configuration of decorated services has been simplified.
March 27, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew Symfony Core Team Member: Samuel Roze
New Symfony Core Team Member: Samuel Roze
March 26, 2018 · Published in #CommunityNew in Symfony 4.1: VarDumper server
In Symfony 4.1 you can use the new server:dump command to collect all dumped information in a centralized server to avoid mixing your own contents with the dumped contents.
March 26, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeA week of symfony #586 (19-25 March 2018)
This week Symfony focused on finishing important features before the Symfony 4.1 feature freeze starts next week: introduced a new Messenger component, internationalized routing, inlined routing config, transition blockers for workflows, allow to define multiple sections in Console output and added a server to collect VarDumper dumps. In addition, we updated the status of our diversity initiative.
March 25, 2018 · Published in #A week of symfonyNew in Symfony 4.1: Workflow improvements
In Symfony 4.1 we improved the Workflow component with lots of major and minor features. This blog post summarizes the most important ones.
March 23, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.1: Inlined routing configuration
In Symfony 4.1 you can inline the requirements and default values in the route path to make the config more concise.
March 22, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeDiversity initiative update
Some recent topics within the diversity initiative, covering among many things: the new respectful review guidelines, mentorship programs, code of conduct and enforcement process, context and slack discussions, new slack channels.
March 21, 2018 · Published in #Community #DiversityNew in Symfony 4.1: Simpler service testing
In Symfony 4.1, to make testing simpler, tests will have access to a special service container that allows fetching any non-removed private service.
March 20, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.1: Internationalized routing
In Symfony 4.1 you can define different paths per locale in routes without the need of installing a third-party bundle.
March 19, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeA week of symfony #585 (12-18 March 2018)
This week, Symfony development activity was focused again on finishing the pending pull requests in time for the upcoming Symfony 4.1 "feature freeze" period which starts in just 2 weeks. We made testing easier by allowing to fetch private services from tests clients, improved the design of the new console "box" style and added some HTML5 features to the Symfony Profiler.
March 18, 2018 · Published in #A week of symfonyNew and improved generators for MakerBundle
Symfony Maker bundle has introduced a new generator to create basic CRUD interfaces and it has improved the form generator to create forms based on Doctrine entities.
March 14, 2018 · Published in #SymfonyA week of symfony #584 (5-11 March 2018)
This week, Symfony 2.7.43, 2.8.36, 3.4.6 and 4.0.6 maintenance versions were published. Meanwhile, Symfony development activity focused on fixing minor bugs. Lastly, the "feature freeze" period for the upcoming Symfony 4.1 version starts in just 3 weeks, so we need your help to review issues and finish pull requests.
March 11, 2018 · Published in #A week of symfonyNew in Symfony 4.1: Improved Bootstrap 4 form theme
In Symfony 4.1 we've improved the Bootstrap 4 form theme with new features and we've made it fully accessible and compliant with WCAG 2.0.
March 8, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.1: Twig extensions priority
Symfony 4.1 allows to define the priority of Twig extensions, which is useful when you need to overload the filters and functions defined in other extensions.
March 7, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.1: Dynamic lock refresh
In Symfony 4.1, locks can be refreshed for a different amount of time than the original TTL used when creating the lock.
March 6, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeA week of symfony #583 (26 February - 4 March 2018)
This week, Symfony 2.7.42, 2.8.35, 3.4.5 and 4.0.5 maintenance versions were published. In addition, Symfony improved the accessibility of the Bootstrap 4 form theme to comply with the WCAG standard: it fixed some HTML issues, added new attributes and improved how form errors are displayed. Finally, it was proposed a way to simplify the User and UserChecker.
March 4, 2018 · Published in #A week of symfonyNew in Symfony 4.1: Deprecated the AdvancedUserInterface
In Symfony 4.1 the AdvancedUserInterface has been deprecated, but you can define your own "user checkers" to get the same functionality.
March 2, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.1: Smarter URL redirections
In Symfony 4.1 the logic to redirect from URLs with trailing slashes to URLs without them finally works in both ways.
March 1, 2018 · Published in #Living on the edge