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New in Symfony 8.2 Messenger Inbox

Symfony 8.2 adds a Messenger inbox to skip messages that have already been processed, even if the worker crashes before acknowledging them.
October 26, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 1 👍 2 🚀 2 🎉 1

New in Symfony 8.2 More MongoDB Integrations

Symfony 8.2 adds MongoDB cache adapters and a MongoDB transport for Messenger.
October 23, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 3 👍 4 🚀 2 🎉 2

New in Symfony 8.2 HTTP Trailers

Symfony 8.2 exposes the HTTP trailers sent by servers after the response body, both in the HttpClient component and in its Guzzle handler.
October 22, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 1 👍 3 🚀 2 🎉 1

New in Symfony 8.2 Signed Transports and Secret Rotation

Symfony 8.2 adds a sign option to Messenger transports to sign all their messages and lets you rotate the secrets used to sign data.
October 21, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 2 👍 3 🚀 3 🎉 1

New in Symfony 8.2 JsonSchema Component

Symfony 8.2 introduces the JsonSchema component to generate JSON Schema and OpenAPI schemas from your PHP classes and from function parameters, for API documentation and for AI agent tools.
October 20, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 3 👍 1 🚀 4 🎉 1

New in Symfony 8.2 Safer HTML in Translations

Symfony 8.2 adds a new service and Twig filter to safely translate messages that contain HTML elements.
October 19, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 8 👍 3 🚀 5 🎉 3

New in Symfony 8.2 Locking Controllers

Symfony 8.2 adds a #[Lock] attribute that rejects or delays concurrent requests to a controller.
October 16, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 4 👍 3 🚀 5 🎉 1

New in Symfony 8.2 Encrypted Doctrine Columns

Symfony 8.2 lets you encrypt Doctrine entity properties with a single #[Encrypted] attribute.
October 15, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 10 👍 5 🚀 5 🎉 3

New in Symfony 8.2 Attribute-Based Workflows

Symfony 8.2 lets you define workflows and state machines with PHP attributes on a regular class.
October 14, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 5 👍 3 🚀 4 🎉 1

New in Symfony 8.2 Safer and More Flexible Logout

Symfony 8.2 adds a Twig helper to log out with a POST form, lets APIs skip the redirect after logout and supports OpenID Connect Back-Channel Logout.
October 13, 2026 #Living on the edge ❤️ 3 👍 3 🚀 2 🎉 1