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A weekly summary of everything that happened around Symfony development.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version updated lazy services to use PHP native lazy objects and added a feature to define global translation parameters. Meanwhile, the existing Symfony versions fixed support for PHP 8.4 hooks and asymmetric visibility in VarExporter.
March 16, 2025 #A week of symfony ❤️ 1
This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version renamed the JsonEncoder component to JsonStreamer, added support for Valkey schemes in the Cache component and introduced a field_id() form helper.
March 9, 2025 #A week of symfony 🚀 1
This week, Symfony 6.4.19 and 7.2.4 maintenance versions were released. In addition, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version added a helper to render directory trees in the console. Lastly, we welcomed four new members to the Symfony Core Team.
March 2, 2025 #A week of symfony
This week, development activity focused on new security features. The upcoming Symfony 7.3 version added support for security voters to explain their vote, improved the IsGranted attribute to allow using PHP callables, and made some changes to enhance the DX of recent security additions.
February 23, 2025 #A week of symfony ❤️ 2
This week, development activity focused on the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version. We introduced a simpler way to configure DKIM and SMIME options, improved how to work with value objects in the container and added Markdown format support for tables in the console.
February 16, 2025 #A week of symfony 👍 2
This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version improved the server event streaming, introduced a new DeduplicateMiddleware in Messenger and added an option to disable translation. In addition, Symfony announced the full schedule for SymfonyDay Chicago event and a new event in Montreal (Canada).
February 9, 2025 #A week of symfony 👍 2
This week, Symfony released maintenance versions 6.4.18, 7.1.11 and 7.2.3. In addition, Twig published a security advisory and we shared several updates about upcoming Symfony conferences. Lastly, Symfony announced improved support for Mastodon and BlueSky social networks.
February 2, 2025 #A week of symfony ❤️ 3
This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version improved the invokable command feature, deprecated the use of option arrays for configuring validation constraints, and updated the JsonEncoder component to allow warming up objects and lists. In addition, we announced more details about the special SymfonyDay Chicago event which will take place on March 17.
January 26, 2025 #A week of symfony 👀 1 👍 3
This week, Symfony celebrated the SymfonyOnline January 2025 conference. In addition, it announced the new Symfony UX Core Team. Lastly, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version simplified the configuration of the web debug toolbar replacement on Ajax requests and introduced a JsonEncodable attribute.
January 19, 2025 #A week of symfony 👍 2
This week, Symfony development activity was very intense. The upcoming Symfony 7.3 version added a Slug constraint, introduced support for union types in OptionsResolver, enabled using HTTP/3 with the CurlHttpClient, and added support for invokable commands and input attributes. In addition, we published a summary of the Symfony project activity in 2024.
January 12, 2025 #A week of symfony 👍 1 🎉 1