Symfony blog posts for August 2021

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This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing various bugs across its entire codebase and implementing some minor new features for the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version.

This week, Symfony announced the end of the Swiftmailer project in favor of the Symfony Mailer project. Meanwhile, the bundles doc section introduced a redesign that will be used in the future in the entire Symfony docs section.

Now comes the time to officially end the maintenance of Swiftmailer in favor of Symfony Mailer. I've set the end of maintenance date to the end of November 2021, at the same time as the Symfony 5.4 LTS and 6.0 release.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 deprecated some helper methods in AbstractController which weren't strictly related to HTTP. In addition, it deprecated the remaining usages of anonymous users in the Security system. Finally, a new Path class was added to the Filesystem component to ease the handling of file paths.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version added new integrations to the Notifier component, marked the Request::get() method as internal and introduced a smooth upgrade path for security factories. In addition, the free community-provided Symfony support was moved to GitHub Discussions.

Symfony is enabling GitHub Discussions as a new way for the community to provide support.

This week, Symfony 4.4.29, 5.2.14 and 5.3.6 maintenance versions were released. This was the last release for the 5.2.x branch; if your projects are still using it, please consider upgrading them to Symfony 5.3..