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New in Symfony 5.0: String Component
Symfony 5.0 introduces a new String component which deals with bytes, UTF-8 code points and grapheme clusters in a unified way, provides an object-oriented API for strings, and includes a slugger.
December 19, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Misc. improvements (Part 3)
Symfony 4.4 improves the password hashing and migration features, provides faster container compilation, simplifies the redirection config in YAML and makes exceptions easier to understand when running tests.
December 18, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Misc. improvements (Part 2)
In Symfony 4.4, routing config can exclude patterns, checking HTML contents is easier in tests, expressions support scientific numeric format, isGranted() deprecated checking multiple permissions and Twig linter included new options.
December 17, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Misc. improvements (Part 1)
Symfony 4.4 adds many useful improvements, such as better PropertyAccess error messages, support for more only-of-type CSS selectors, a more flexible Range constraint, the option to sort extracted translation messages, an option to consider empty strings invalid and gitattributes files to exclude tests.
December 16, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: WebProfiler Improvements
In Symfony 4.4, we've improved the Profiler to display the details of the Mailer and HttpClient components, we've improved the Ajax requests panel and we've decreased the disk space needed to store each profile.
December 11, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Form Improvements
In Symfony 4.4, forms allow to disable validation per submit button, support alpha-3 codes for countries, improved the way preferred choices are displayed and simplified functional tests a bit.
December 10, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: ErrorHandler Component
In Symfony 4.4, the new ErrorHandler component replaces the Debug component to remove the Twig dependency and make Symfony exceptions compliant with modern standards.
December 9, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Console Improvements
In Symfony 4.4, commands should start returning their exit status, the trimming of QuestionHelper answers is configurable and the NO_COLOR env var is supported.
December 6, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Preloading Symfony Applications in PHP 7.4
Symfony 4.4 generates a preloading file for your application so you can get a big performance boost when using PHP 7.4.
December 5, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edgeNew in Symfony 4.4: Dependency Injection Improvements (Part 2)
In Symfony 4.4, the YAML syntax of method calls has been simplified, you have better control of errors when decorating services and you can also define different priorities for tagged services.
November 28, 2019 · Published in #Living on the edge