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New in Symfony 7.1: Expanding UniqueEntity Constraint to Any PHP Class

Symfony 7.1 expands the UniqueEntity constraint, allowing you to check for uniqueness across all PHP classes, not just Doctrine entities.
May 14, 2024 #Living on the edge ❤️ 10 👍 6 🎉 3

New in Symfony 7.1: Improved Access Token Authenticator

Symfony 7.1 enhances its Access Token Authenticator by adding RSA signature support and introducing a new CAS 2.0 token handler.
May 13, 2024 #Living on the edge ❤️ 2 👍 2 🎉 3

New in Symfony 7.1: WebProfiler Improvements

In Symfony 7.1 the profiler includes a redesigned main menu, better performance and a feature to filter table contents in real-time.
May 10, 2024 #Living on the edge ❤️ 5 👍 2 🚀 8 🎉 1

New in Symfony 7.1: MapUploadedFile Attribute

Symfony 7.1 introduces a new MapUploadedFile attribute to inject uploaded files into controller arguments.
May 9, 2024 #Living on the edge ❤️ 17 👍 3 🚀 2

New in Symfony 7.1: MacAddress and Charset Constraints

Symfony 7.1 adds two new constraints to validate MAC addresses and the charset in which contents are encoded
May 8, 2024 #Living on the edge 👍 6

New in Symfony 7.1: IsCsrfTokenValid Attribute

Symfony 7.1 includes a new IsCsrfTokenValid attribute to simplify the logic needed to check if CSRF tokens are valid.
May 7, 2024 #Living on the edge ❤️ 16 🚀 3 🎉 1

New in Symfony 7.1: TypeInfo Component

Symfony 7.1 adds a new TypeInfo component that extracts PHP type information from multiple elements (class properties and methods, return types of functions and methods, etc.) using several sources of information (PHP reflection, PHPDoc parser, etc.)
May 6, 2024 #Living on the edge 👀 2 ❤️ 5 👍 9 🚀 3 😄 2 🎉 12

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 ❤️ 3 🚀 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

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