This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.4 and 7.0 versions merged more than 60 pull requests with new features. Meanwhile, Symfony launched a new initiative to help you organize your next Symfony-related meetup.
August 6, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 5.4.26 maintenance version was released. Meanwhile, we deprecated annotations in favor of attributes in Serializer, in Validator and in Routing. We also worked on adding types to private and internal properties in Symfony 6.4 and to public and protected properties in Symfony 7.0.
July 30, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.4 continued deprecating features that will be removed in Symfony 7.0, like the doctrine/annotations integration. Meanwhile, we published an article to explain how to prepare for Symfony 6.4 and 7.0 releases and we announced a new talk for the SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference (October 5-6).
July 23, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony development activity focused on tweaking and fixing bugs on stable versions. Meanwhile, we improved performance of service auto-discovery in the upcoming Symfony 6.4 version. Finally, we announced the last days to submit your proposal for the Call for Papers of the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference.
July 16, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.4 version continued adding native return types to its codebase. Meanwhile, the Symfony 7.0 branch, which will be released at the same time, continued removing deprecated code paths. In addition, Symfony announced the SymfonyOnline January 2024 conference and the first speakers of SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference.
July 9, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 5.4.25, 6.2.12 and 6.3.1 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, development activity focused on deprecating more features for the upcoming Symfony 6.4 version and removing those deprecated features in the 7.0 version. Both versions will be released at the same time according to our release process.
July 2, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing bugs in maintained branches: update ICU data to 73.2, fix some design issues in the Profiler, fix secrets:list command and about command, etc. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.4 version added features such as automatic route aliases for controllers FQCN and FQCN::method, deprecation of ContainerAwareInterface and allowing to pass a single constraint to the When constraint.
June 25, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, the entire Symfony project focused on the SymfonyOnline June 2023 conference. The event was a big success and you can already watch the talk replay if you attended the conference or buy your after event ticket to watch all of them now.
June 18, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, we started working on the upcoming Symfony 6.4 and 7.0 releases. In Symfony 6.4 we added a feature in Scheduler to allow setting the timezone for the next run derived from a cron expression and added a max_retries config option to HttpClient. In Symfony 7.0 we removed some unneeded code in Uid and dropped support for Doctrine DBAL 2.x. Lastly, next week we'll celebrate the SymfonyOnline June 2023 conference.
June 11, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 6.3.0 was published, including tens of new features that improve your development experience and make your projects more powerful. In addition, we published the full schedule of SymfonyOnline June 2023 conference, which will include several talks about some of these new Symfony 6.3 features.
June 4, 2023
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