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New in Symfony 4.4: Bootstrap Custom Switches
In Symfony 4.4, forms can style checkboxes with Bootstrap's custom switches.
New in Symfony 4.4: Lazy Firewalls
In Symfony 4.4, stateful firewalls only create the user object when the application actually uses it, allowing more responses to be cacheable and improving the application performance.
New in Symfony 4.4: PHPUnit Polyfills
Symfony 4.4 will provide several polyfills for PHPUnit so you can use the same tests with different versions of PHP and PHPUnit.
New in Symfony 4.4: Notification Emails
Symfony 4.4 will include a feature to create notification emails, which are standardized messages intended to send notifications to yourself.
New in Symfony 4.4: Encrypted Secrets Management
Symfony 4.4 will include a new feature to manage encrypted secrets, which is useful to store sensitive configuration values such as passwords, tokens, certificates, etc.
New in Symfony 4.4: Simpler Event Listeners
In Symfony 4.4, event listeners no longer require to define the event name in the service configuration and Doctrine entity listeners added support for __invoke() methods.
New in Symfony 4.4: Redis Cache Improvements
Symfony 4.4 will add support for Redis Sentinel and it will improve the Redis tag-aware cache to consume less memory and support up to 4 billion keys per tag.
New in Symfony 4.4: Horizontal Tables and Definition Lists in Console Commands
In Symfony 4.4, commands will add new ways of displaying tabular data: horizontal tables and definition lists.
New in Symfony 4.4: Improved Welcome Page
In Symfony 4.4, the Welcome Page displayed when you haven't configured any URL, has been revamped to show a better design and more useful resources.
New in Symfony 4.4: Password Migrations
In Symfony 4.4, user passwords can be rehashed automatically when a better hashing algorithm is available.