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Remembering Ryan Weaver: Teacher, Core Team Member, Friend

New in Symfony 7.4 Decoupled Controller Helpers

Symfony 7.4 introduces a new way to use controller helpers without extending the base controller, making framework-agnostic controllers easier to write and test.
November 5, 2025 #Living on the edge 👀 9 ❤️ 1 👍 5 🚀 4 🎉 3

New in Symfony 7.4 Improved Invokable Commands

Symfony 7.4 enhances invokable commands with enum support, DTO-based inputs, interactive prompts, and full testing compatibility.
November 4, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 22 👍 11 🚀 10 🎉 10

New in Symfony 7.4 Multi-Step Forms

Symfony 7.4 introduces form flows, a new way to build and manage multi-step forms using the same familiar concepts as regular Symfony forms.
November 3, 2025 #Living on the edge 👀 4 ❤️ 51 👍 23 🚀 26 🎉 25

New in Symfony 7.4 Better Currency Filtering

Symfony 7.4 makes currency handling smarter by filtering out obsolete currencies and adding new options to validate and display only relevant ones.
October 30, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 8 👍 8 🚀 2 🎉 2

New in Symfony 7.4 Share Directory

Symfony 7.4 introduces a new directory to store data shared across servers, like application caches.
October 29, 2025 #Living on the edge 👀 4 ❤️ 14 👍 6 🚀 8 🎉 6

New in Symfony 7.4 Better Exceptions in Terminal

Symfony 7.4 displays clean, readable exception traces in the terminal instead of verbose HTML dumps.
October 28, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 38 👍 11 🚀 14 🎉 11

New in Symfony 7.4 Weighted Workflow Transitions

Symfony 7.4 introduces weighted workflow transitions, allowing places to track multiple instances and model processes that require quantities, like approvals or components.
October 27, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 10 👍 8 🚀 4 🎉 4

New in Symfony 7.4 Video Constraint

Symfony 7.4 introduces a new constraint to validate video files with options to control dimensions, codecs, and formats.
October 24, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 11 👍 2 🚀 3 🎉 2

New in Symfony 7.4 Caching HTTP Client

Symfony 7.4 introduces RFC 9111-compliant client-side HTTP caching powered by the Cache component.
October 22, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 16 👍 7 🚀 5 🎉 5

New in Symfony 7.4 Uid Improvements

Symfony 7.4 improves UUIDs by generating UUID v7 by default, adding microsecond precision, and making them easier to use in tests.
October 21, 2025 #Living on the edge 👍 6 🚀 9 🎉 2