This week, Symfony development activity was frantic with tens of fixes and new features merged. The upcoming Symfony 5.2 version added support for shared locks, integration of Cache and Messenger components to allow computing cached values in a worker and the introduction of PHP 8 compatible attributes for routes and required attributes.
September 13, 2020
#A week of symfony
This week, the Symfony 5 book was published for free in all available languages. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 5.2 version updated security to allow configuring the order of firewall listeners and added new Doctrine types for ULID and UUID values.
September 6, 2020
#A week of symfony
This week Symfony merged a ton of bug fixes, including changes for the upcoming PHP 8 version and polyfills for the PHPUnit 9.1 assertions. A new Semaphore component was introduced, as well as support for translatable objects.
August 30, 2020
#A week of symfony
This week, more than 100 pull requests were merged across the board to fix bugs and merge new features. The upcoming Symfony 5.2 version added support for pseudo-localization, Mailer and Notifier components added compatibility with new third-party services and a new build/ directory was added to separate it from the cache directory. In addition, the Symfony 5 book added new languages.
August 23, 2020
#A week of symfony
This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.2 version reworked the signal integration in the Console component, continued improving the new Security system with new events and a NullToken voter and introduced autoconfiguration for DataCollectors.
August 16, 2020
#A week of symfony
This week, the HttpClient component added a special EventSourceHttpClient to consume Server-Sent Events. Meanwhile, the Notifier component added new bridges for Zulip and Google Chat. Lastly, the official Symfony Store started shipping all over the world.
August 9, 2020
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony postponed SymfonyCon Disneyland Paris conference until next year and announced SymfonyWorld 2020, a new world-wide online conference. In addition, the first translations of the Symfony 5 book were published for free on Symfony website.
August 2, 2020
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 3.4.43, 4.4.11, 5.0.11 and 5.1.3 maintenance versions were released. Symfony 5.0.11 is the last version for the Symfony 5.0 branch, so you should upgrade to Symfony 5.1. In addition, the Symfony 5 book published a new translation in Japanese: 基礎から最速で学ぶ Symfony 5 入門.
July 26, 2020
#A week of symfony
This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.2 version added polyfills for the new PHPUnit 9.1 assertions, added a new method to get the contents of uploaded files and improved the list of MIME types by switching its source.
July 19, 2020
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony added future compatibility with Doctrine DBAL 3 in Cache component and PHP 8 stack traces in Cache and Config components. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 5.2 version added support for non-ASCII chars in email addresses and a feature to allow overriding the default non-debug template.
July 12, 2020
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