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This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version experienced an intense development activity to finish many new features such as: adding a remember me option for JSON logins, allowing to trim parameters in XML config files, introducing a new Exclude attribute, allowing to define the batch size in Messenger component and allowing to extend the Autowire attribute.

This week, Symfony continued introducing changes needed to make tests compatible with PhpUnit 10. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version continued adding PHP types to private methods and functions.

This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing bugs on stable branches. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version improved the Bootstrap 5 form theme and switched to a faster hashing algorithm. Lastly, the SymfonyLive Paris 2023 conference published its entire schedule.

This week, Symfony 4.4.50, 5.4.20, 6.0.20, 6.1.12, and 6.2.6 were released to address some security issues related to CSRF tokens and cookie headers in HTTP Cache. Moreover, we celebrated the companies that back Symfony 6.2 development and announced the SymfonyLive Paris 2023 conference workshops.

This week, Symfony 5.4.19, 6.0.19, 6.1.11 and 6.2.5 maintenance versions were released. The 6.0 and 6.1 branches will no longer receive any updates, so consider updating your projects to Symfony 6.2. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version marked DSNs as sensitive parameters and removed them from exception messages, added support for Redis Relay in cache and updated the VarDumper component to display all invisible characters.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version added some improvements to the Clock component, marked some parameters as sensitive and updated the Profiler to display date/times in the local timezone of the developer. Meanwhile, SymfonyCasts announced a new course about API Platform 3. Finally, we welcomed bitExpert, SensioLabs, SymfonyCasts and Shopware as new backers of the Symfony backers program.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version added an enum function in ExpressionLanguage component, made some improvements in the Profiler, updated its entire source code to use PHP arrow functions when possible and introduced a feature to set private services with the test container.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version introduced a getEnum() method in ParameterBag and a new WithLogLevel attribute to set the log level for exceptions. In addition, Symfony announced its first official conferences for 2023.

This week, Symfony 5.4.18, 6.0.18, 6.1.10, and 6.2.4 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version improved performance of service container compilation and added a StreamedJsonResponse for efficient JSON streaming.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version added lots of new features, such as support for nesting autowiring-related attributes, allow to use HttpStatus attribute to set status code and headers for HTTP exceptions, introduce a feature to strip emojis in text contents and new methods for Clock component. In addition, Symfony published the Symfony Book updated for Symfony 6.2.