This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.3 version deprecated the Role and SwitchUserRole classes. In addition, a new component to compose MIME messages and a new HttpClient component were introduced. Lastly, the SymfonyLive Brasil 2019 conference opened its Call for Papers and its registrations.
March 3, 2019
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony Flex 1.2 was released, simplifying the update of recipes, improving the handling of .env files and allowing to define conflicting recipes. Meanwhile, the final schedule for the SymfonyLive Paris 2019 conference was published.
February 24, 2019
#A week of symfony
This week, a coordinated community effort updated the Symfony translation files for lots of languages (we're still looking for contributors for some European and Asian languages). Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 4.3 version added a JSON validator and improved the form translation.
February 17, 2019
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 3.4.22 and 4.2.3 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, development activity mostly focused on fixing Form bugs and fixing compatibility with PhpUnit 8. Lastly, more details were announced for the SymfonyLive Tunis 2019 conference and the registration was opened.
February 10, 2019
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 4.1.11 was released, marking the end of regular releases for the 4.1 branch. In addition, the Symfony Security Bug Bounty started this week. Lastly, the first speakers of SymfonyLive Paris 2019 conference were announced.
February 3, 2019
#A week of symfony
This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.3 version added support for deprecating service aliases and introduced native PHP serialization for the Messenger transport. Meanwhile, the Symfony diversity initiative published the 2018 transparency report and other updates about the governance process and a call for donations. Finally, the SymfonyLive Warszawa 2019 conference opened its registration (Warsaw, Poland, June 13-14).
January 27, 2019
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony finally made the switch to the short array notation on its entire codebase. In addition, a security bug bounty program was announced for the Symfony project. Finally, the schedule of SymfonyLive Lille 2019 conference was unveiled.
January 20, 2019
#A week of symfony
This week, thanks to the low development activity, we enabled the usage of the PHP short array notation on Symfony code. In the coming weeks we'll update all our code at once to minimize merge conflicts. Meanwhile, the community proposed some Security-related improvements about Remember me config and IS_AUTHENTICATED_* attributes.
January 13, 2019
#A week of symfony
This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.3 version added a new isFormValid() shortcut for controllers, introduced a new theme option for dump() contents and simplified form theming with a new block_prefix form field option.
January 6, 2019
#A week of symfony
The last week of 2018 showed a low development activity. The upcoming Symfony 4.3 added a new option to force adding the trailing route parameters and there was a new proposal to add configurable argument value resolvers.
December 30, 2018
#A week of symfony