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A Week of Symfony #825 (17-23 October 2022)
This week, Symfony 6.2 development activity focused on merging lots of new features that will be polished during the next weeks until the Symfony 6.2 release at the end of November 2022. We introduced a PSR-4 directory routing loader, a new hash_property_path option for password form fields, a better AST-based extractor for translations and support for friendsofphp/well-known-implementations in HttpClient.
A Week of Symfony #824 (10-16 October 2022)
This week, Symfony 4.4.47, 5.4.14, 6.0.14 and 6.1.6 maintenance versions were released. In addition, we added some new features to the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version, such as listing namespaced commands when running only the namespace as the command name and adding new configurable blocks to the Bootstrap 5 form theme.
A Week of Symfony #823 (3-9 October 2022)
This week, Symfony development activity focused on bug fixes and feature polishing for the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version, such us: improve console scripts security by guarding them from being run in non-CLI contexts, updates related to Unicode 15 in the String component and some more design fixes for the Symfony Profiler redesign.
A Week of Symfony #822 (26 September - 2 October 2022)
This week, Symfony 4.4.46, 5.4.13, 6.0.13 and 6.1.5 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, we continued merging new features into the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version: simplified adding MIME parts to email messages, allow creating lazy-loading classes using constructors, redesigned the mailer panel in the Profiler, and added an option to make the YamlEncoder indentation configurable.
A Week of Symfony #821 (19-25 September 2022)
This week, Symfony development activity focused on finishing and polishing some new features for the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version, such us: updating codebase to use modern PHP features like null coalescing assignment and match statements; adding new config options for HttpCache; and updating some new panels in the Symfony Profiler.
A Week of Symfony #820 (12-18 September 2022)
This week, development activity focused on tweaking and finishing some of the new features of Symfony 6.2, to be released at the end of November 2022. In addition to a new ChainUserChecker that allows calling multiple user checkers for a firewall, we merged the Symfony Profiler redesign which refreshes the look and feel of this debugging tool.
A Week of Symfony #819 (5-11 September 2022)
This week, Symfony development activity focused on ULID and UUID generation. In addition to fixing some bugs and adding new Max UUID and Max ULID values, we added support for UUID v7 and v8. Lastly, we published an article about solving the SPA or traditional app dilemma in Symfony applications.
A Week of Symfony #818 (29 August - 4 September 2022)
This week, development activity mainly focused on fixing bugs and polishing existing features. The upcoming Symfony 6.2 version improved lazy services by generating lazy-loading virtual proxies for non-ghostable lazy services. Lastly, we published an article about revisiting lazy-loading proxies in PHP to explain the latest Symfony changes around lazy-loading objects.
A Week of Symfony #817 (22-28 August 2022)
This week, Symfony 4.4.45, 5.4.12, 6.0.12 and 6.1.4 maintenance versions were released. In addition, the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version introduced a new ValueResolverInterface to replace and simplify the existing ArgumentValueResolverInterface.
A Week of Symfony #816 (15-21 August 2022)
This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version improved the emoji transliterator feature to support translation of emojis to GitHub and Slack codes and to add integration with the Slugger; it also added the ability to mock the hrtime() function. Lastly, we announced the release of signed packages for Symfony CLI.