Symfony blog posts for January 2019
SymfonyLive Paris 2019: the first selected talks are online!
We are pleased to announce the first part of the conference schedule for SymfonyLive Paris 2019!
January 28, 2019 · Published in #Community #ConferencesNew in Symfony 4.3: Deprecating service aliases
In Symfony 4.3 service aliases can be deprecated to ensure a smooth upgrade until you remove them.
January 28, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeA Week of Symfony #630 (21-27 January 2019)
This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.3 version added support for deprecating service aliases and introduced native PHP serialization for the Messenger transport. Meanwhile, the Symfony diversity initiative published the 2018 transparency report and other updates about the governance process and a call for donations. Finally, the SymfonyLive Warszawa 2019 conference opened its registration (Warsaw, Poland, June 13-14).
January 27, 2019 · Published in #A week of symfonyDiversity Initiative Governance, Donations and Speaker Mentoring
SymfonyCon talk about “One year diversity initiative” has been published for free. A governance process for the diversity initiative has been added to the documentation. More information about how to donate in different currencies and via Paypal. Also given the positive feedback on our twitter poll for a speaker mentoring workshop, we have decided that we want to offer this training in two sessions on March 24th and 31st at 10:00 PST / 19:00 CET. But we still need donations to be able to afford to offer this training. So please donate if you can!
January 25, 2019 · Published in #DiversitySymfony Code of Conduct Transparency Report 2018
Transparency report for the activities done by the Symfony Code of Conduct Active Response Ensurers team during 2018.
January 25, 2019 · Published in #Community #DiversitySymfonyLive Warszawa 2019: the website is released!
Early bird registration and Call for Papers are now open for SymfonyLive Warszawa 2019!
January 22, 2019 · Published in #Community #ConferencesA Week of Symfony #629 (14-20 January 2019)
This week, Symfony finally made the switch to the short array notation on its entire codebase. In addition, a security bug bounty program was announced for the Symfony project. Finally, the schedule of SymfonyLive Lille 2019 conference was unveiled.
January 20, 2019 · Published in #A week of symfonyNew in Symfony 4.3: DomCrawler improvements
In Symfony 4.3, the DomCrawler component has been improved to allow getting the name of the nodes and to allow defining a default value when extracting their text and HTML contents.
January 18, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeSecurity Bug Bounty Program for Symfony
Announcing a limited-time security bug bounty program, funded by the European Commission.
January 17, 2019 · Published in #SymfonySymfonyLive Lille 2019: discover the conference schedule!
The entire conference schedule for SymfonyLive Lille on March 1st is out!
January 14, 2019 · Published in #Community #ConferencesA Week of Symfony #628 (7-13 January 2019)
This week, thanks to the low development activity, we enabled the usage of the PHP short array notation on Symfony code. In the coming weeks we'll update all our code at once to minimize merge conflicts. Meanwhile, the community proposed some Security-related improvements about Remember me config and IS_AUTHENTICATED_* attributes.
January 13, 2019 · Published in #A week of symfonyFostering diversity of thought
In order to increase diversity in our community, we want to focus on building up more diverse speakers at our events by organizing an online workshop for people who identify as being part of an underrepresented group. This is a hands-on workshop that aims to cover all the important things needed, from coming up with talk proposals to speaking confidence along with a chance to practice speaking in a small group. Please follow the link to a poll on Twitter to voice your interest!
January 11, 2019 · Published in #DiversityDiversity Update for 2019
Latest update on the diversity initiative featuring an update from SymfonyCon, information about the launching of bi-weekly chat meetings as well as how we aim to setup a governance process and improvements on how we collect donations.
January 9, 2019 · Published in #DiversitySymfonyLive London 2019: the website is online!
Early bird registration and CFP are now open for SymfonyLive London 2019!
January 9, 2019 · Published in #Community #ConferencesNew in Symfony 4.3: Default and Trim Env Var Processors
Symfony 4.3 adds new env var processors to allow defining default values for undefined env vars and to allow trimming their values.
January 9, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeA Week of Symfony #627 (31 December 2018 - 6 January 2019)
This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.3 version added a new isFormValid() shortcut for controllers, introduced a new theme option for dump() contents and simplified form theming with a new block_prefix form field option.
January 6, 2019 · Published in #A week of symfonyNew in Symfony 4.3: Simpler Form Theming
In Symfony 4.3 there is a new option called "block_prefix" which simplifies the way form fields can be customized.
January 4, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.3: Improved Financial Constraints
In Symfony 4.3 you can check IBAN and BIC codes together and you can also validate UATP payment cards.
January 3, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.3: Always Include Route Default Values
In Symfony 4.3 you can force routes to include the values of all their placeholders in the generated URLs, even if those values are the default ones.
January 2, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edge