Symfony blog posts for October 2019
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New in Symfony 4.4: Lazy Firewalls
In Symfony 4.4, stateful firewalls only create the user object when the application actually uses it, allowing more responses to be cacheable and improving the application performance.
October 31, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: PHPUnit Polyfills
Symfony 4.4 will provide several polyfills for PHPUnit so you can use the same tests with different versions of PHP and PHPUnit.
October 30, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Notification Emails
Symfony 4.4 will include a feature to create notification emails, which are standardized messages intended to send notifications to yourself.
October 29, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeGet ready to upgrade to Symfony 5 with SymfonyInsight
Symfony 5 is coming soon. It will be released at the end of November 2019, in less than a month. Have you planned how are you going to upgrade your application to this new version?
October 28, 2019 · Published in #SymfonyInsightA Week of Symfony #669 (21-27 October 2019)
This week, Symfony continued polishing the upcoming Symfony 4.4 and 5.0 versions. The most important new feature finished this week was the management of encrypted secrets. In addition, Symfony announced the publication of a new book called Symfony 5: The Fast Track.
October 27, 2019 · Published in #A week of symfonySymfony 5: The Fast Track, a new Symfony book
"Symfony 5: The Fast Track" is a new book about creating modern web applications with Symfony. Please, help us make this book a reality.
October 25, 2019 · Published in #Documentation #SymfonyNew in Symfony 4.4: Encrypted Secrets Management
Symfony 4.4 will include a new feature to manage encrypted secrets, which is useful to store sensitive configuration values such as passwords, tokens, certificates, etc.
October 24, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Simpler Event Listeners
In Symfony 4.4, event listeners no longer require to define the event name in the service configuration and Doctrine entity listeners added support for __invoke() methods.
October 23, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Redis Cache Improvements
Symfony 4.4 will add support for Redis Sentinel and it will improve the Redis tag-aware cache to consume less memory and support up to 4 billion keys per tag.
October 22, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Horizontal Tables and Definition Lists in Console Commands
In Symfony 4.4, commands will add new ways of displaying tabular data: horizontal tables and definition lists.
October 21, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeA Week of Symfony #668 (14-20 October 2019)
This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.4. version added a new feature for lazy computation of string values injected into services and continued working on the new feature to store secrets. Finally, the SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2019 conference announced a fundraising for its scholarship program.
October 20, 2019 · Published in #A week of symfonyNew in Symfony 4.4: Improved Welcome Page
In Symfony 4.4, the Welcome Page displayed when you haven't configured any URL, has been revamped to show a better design and more useful resources.
October 18, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeScholarship program and its fundraising are open at SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2019
We're very pleased to launch our scholarship program for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2019! We're also launching a fundraising campaign to finance the scholarship program, check here all the details!
October 17, 2019 · Published in #Community #Conferences #DiversityNew in Symfony 4.4: Password Migrations
In Symfony 4.4, user passwords can be rehashed automatically when a better hashing algorithm is available.
October 17, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: PHPUnit Assertions for Email Messages
In Symfony 4.4, you can use new PHPUnit assertions to test the email messages and their contents.
October 16, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Messenger Middleware to Clear Doctrine Entity Manager
In Symfony 4.4, the Messenger component added a new middleware to clear the Doctrine entity manager when a message is consumed to avoid memory leaks and side-effects.
October 15, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Improved Type Constraint
In Symfony 4.4, the Type constraint can check that the given value type is one of several possible types.
October 14, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeA Week of Symfony #667 (7-13 October 2019)
This week, Symfony 3.4.32 and 4.3.5 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 4.4 version improved the syntax for defining method calls in YAML, improved performance of filesystem-based caches and allowed to omit the event name when registering listeners.
October 13, 2019 · Published in #A week of symfonyNew in Symfony 4.4: New DomCrawler Methods
In Symfony 4.4, the DomCrawler component will add three new methods called matches(), closest() and outerHtml() and it will add a new feature to remove all white spaces from text.
October 11, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Signing and Encrypting Email Messages
In Symfony 4.4, the Mailer and Mime components will add support for signing an encrypting email messages to improve their integrity and security.
October 10, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeA Week of Symfony #666 (30 September - 6 October 2019)
This week, Symfony continued fixing bugs and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 4.4 version. Meanwhile, the new String component introduced in Symfony 5.0 added a locale-aware Slugger with support for transliterating multiple locales. Lastly, the new Notifier component was merged as an experimental feature in the upcoming Symfony 5.0 version.
October 6, 2019 · Published in #A week of symfony