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This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version focused on adding compatibility with Twig 4 and updating tests to support PHPUnit 10 and later versions. In addition, we published three new talks for the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference.

This week, Symfony 5.4.43, 6.4.11, and 7.1.4 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version continued tweaking and polishing some of its new features. In addition, we published new talks for the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference, including sessions on GraphQL, REST, and RPC and HTTP compression.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version added a feature to render a Twig block with the Template attribute, improved the Serializer with a snake case to camel case name converter, and added support for new operators in the ExpressionLanguage component. In addition, we published new talks for the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference, including sessions on containerization with DDEV and best practices for Symfony.

This week, Symfony optimized dumped resources for tracking in Config and DependencyInjection components, deprecated !tagged tag in favor of the !tagged_iterator tag and fixed handling NO_COLOR env var while adding support for FORCE_COLOR env var. In addition, we published more details about some talks of the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version improved the hashing of assets in AssetMapper and added support for the RFC4122 format in the Ulid constraint. In addition, Symfony proposed some changes in config resources tracking.

This week, Symfony development activity was calmer than usual because of the summer holidays. In addition to some fixes and tweaks in existing features, the community proposed new features for upcoming Symfony versions such as a Week number constraint and improvements in AssetMapper code, and in the HtmlDumper links.

This week, Symfony released maintenance versions 5.4.42, 6.4.10, 7.0.10 and 7.1.3. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version added a new polyfill for expectUserDeprecationMessage() method to add compatibility with PHPUnit 11 and improved the authenticators information in the security profiler panel.

This week, development activity was slower than usual and focused on tweaks and fixes on all supported branches. Meanwhile, we announced the first talks and workshops for the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference.

This week, Symfony continued tweaking and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version, such as the new WordCount constraint. In addition, we announced the date and the first details of the SymfonyLive Berlin 2025 conference.

This week, Symfony development activity focused on removing the usages of the `uniqid()` function throughout the codebase, because there are better alternatives in modern PHP and because PHP might deprecate that function in the future. In addition, we published some information about the API Platform Conference (September 19-20, 2024).