This week, the biggest new feature added to the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version was an access token authenticator. This security authenticator is able to fetch a token in the request header and retrieve the associated user identifier. It supports custom tokens and self-contained tokens such as JWT, Paseto, and SAML.
August 14, 2022
#A week of symfony
This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version added features such as allowing to extend the #[When] attribute, adding conditional types to conditional configuration builders, introduced a new messenger:count command that lists the pending messages per transport and improved the #IsGranted attribute to allow using expressions.
August 7, 2022
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 4.4.44, 5.4.11, 6.0.11 and 6.1.3 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version introduced a new Clock component to decouple applications from the system clock and a new transliterator to translate emojis into many locales. Lastly, there's a new proposal to discuss about switching from YAML to PHP by default in Symfony configuration.
July 31, 2022
#A week of symfony
This week was the most intense in Symfony development activity in months. We completed and merged tens of new features and improvements for the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version, including: a Doctrine entity argument resolver, options to sort files in case insensitive mode and by extension and size, console autocompletion for zsh shells, security logout improvements and new options, etc.
July 24, 2022
#A week of symfony
This week, we focused on finishing several new features for the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version: Console added support for multiple choice questions; we applied the SensitiveParameter PHP attribute to all the parameters that can contain sensitive values such as security tokens and passwords; and we enabled the use of lazy-loading ghost object proxies in Dependency Injection. Finally, we moved #[IsGranted()], #[Template()] and #[Cache()] attributes into Symfony components so we can get rid of the SensioFrameworkExtra bundle.
July 17, 2022
#A week of symfony
This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version added a new feature to login users programmatically. In addition, it deprecated the recently added renderForm() method because it improved the render() method to deal with form variables.
July 10, 2022
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 4.4.43, 5.4.10, 6.0.10 and 6.1.2 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version added a Enum env var processor to transform environment variables into BackedEnums and improved the Serializer to provide context information from attribute for promoted properties.
July 3, 2022
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony officially introduced ux.symfony.com website alongside four new UX components (including a way to render React components and Ajax-powered autocomplete fields). In addition, it improved lazy services to allow using ghost objects and improved the usage of Enums in YAML config files.
June 26, 2022
#A week of symfony
This week, the SymfonyWorld Online 2022 Summer Edition conference took place with great success. During the conference, we unveiled ux.symfony.com the new website to discover and learn about Symfony UX. Lastly, we announced the first speakers of SymfonyCon Disneyland Paris 2022 (November 17-18, 2022).
June 19, 2022
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 6.1.1 maintenance version was released to fix all the issues reported since the recent Symfony 6.1 stable release. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version added a new feature to get the current firewall configuration in a simpler way. Finally, the SymfonyWorld Online 2022 Summer conference will take place next week.
June 12, 2022
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