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Symfony 7.0 and 6.4 have the same new features because both were released at the same time. Learn more about the Symfony release process.

New in Symfony 6.4 Workflow Profiler

Symfony 6.4 includes a new Profiler feature to introspect the workflow definitions and render them as a visual chart.
December 5, 2023 #Living on the edge ❤️ 4 🚀 1

New in Symfony 6.4 DX Improvements (part 2)

Symfony 6.4 adds many features to improve DX (developer experience): duplicate the preferred choices form option, add server params when clicking links, define default crawler attributes, set a max number of retries in HTTP client, add a defined env var processor.
December 4, 2023 #Living on the edge ❤️ 1

New in Symfony 6.4 AssetMapper Improvements

AssetMapper 6.4 comes with a huge number of new features: local vendor downloads, CSS support, smarter preloading and more.
November 28, 2023 #Living on the edge

New in Symfony 6.4 DX Improvements (part 1)

Symfony 6.4 provides support for ISO 3166-1 numeric codes, improves the Type constraint, provides better precision when formatting time messages, improves performance of Finder filter utilities and adds new methods to the AbstractController.
November 27, 2023 #Living on the edge ❤️ 1

New in Symfony 6.4 Security Improvements

Symfony 6.4 adds security badge resolution to the profiler, safer security logs and the option to define multiple patterns separately in the security firewalls.
November 21, 2023 #Living on the edge

New in Symfony 6.4 Mailer, Translation, Notifier, Webhook and RemoteEvent Integrations

Symfony 6.4 adds 12 new third-party service integrations to Mailer, Translation, Notifier, Webhook and RemoteEvent components.
November 17, 2023 #Living on the edge

New in Symfony 6.4 AutowireLocator and AutowireIterator Attributes

Symfony 6.4 introduces a new AutowireLocator attribute so you can define service locators using PHP attributes instead of configuration files.
November 16, 2023 #Living on the edge

New in Symfony 6.4 Serializer Improvements

Symfony 6.4 adds new features to the Serializer such as class-based group attributes, Translatable objects normalization and detailed JSON decoding errors.
November 14, 2023 #Living on the edge ❤️ 1

New in Symfony 6.4 More Built-in Message Handlers

Symfony 6.4 adds new Messenger handlers so you can run processes, commands and ping URLs.
November 10, 2023 #Living on the edge ❤️ 1

New in Symfony 6.4 Locale Improvements

Symfony 6.4 introduces some improvements related to locale, such as setting the locale when rendering email contents and accessing the list of enabled locales from templates.
November 8, 2023 #Living on the edge ❤️ 1