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New in Symfony 3.2: CSV and YAML encoders for Serializer
In Symfony 3.2, the serializer added a CSV encoder, ideal to export/import data to Excel, and a YAML encoder.
New in Symfony 3.2: Console Improvements (Part 3)
In Symfony 3.2, console commands can be defined as private (to hide them in the console listings) and they can combine several text styles in their output.
New in Symfony 3.2: Web Debug Toolbar and Profiler Improvements
The web debug toolbar and the profiler were improved in Symfony 3.2 to make them compatible with new technologies (CSP and window.fetch) and to make you more productive improving the way information is displayed.
New in Symfony 3.2: Runtime Environment Variables
In Symfony 3.2 we added full support for environment variables that are resolved during the application runtime.
New in Symfony 3.2: Filesystem improvements
In Symfony 3.2 we improved the Filesystem component to add two new functions: readlink(), to normalize the behavior of PHP on different operating systems, and hardlink() to create single or multiple hard links to files.
New in Symfony 3.2: YAML deprecations
Symfony 3.2 will introduce some minor YAML deprecations in order to make the Yaml component fully compliant with the YAML specification: white spaces are required after mapping keys and duplicated keys are no longer allowed.
New in Symfony 3.2: Improved private services
Symfony 3.2 has improved the behavior of private services to always work as you expect and prevent them from being accessible via the service container.
New in Symfony 3.2: Unicode routing support
In Symfony 3.2, the routing component has been improved to add support for UTF-8 characters and PCRE Unicode properties as part of the route paths and requirements.
New in Symfony 3.2: Added support for XPath expressions
Symfony 3.2 improved XPath integration by adding support to evaluate XPath expressions. This means that you can perform advanced preprocessing of the information obtained via XPath to simplify the code of your tests.
New in Symfony 3.2: Workflow component
In Symfony 3.2 we added a new Workflow component to help you define "workflows", which are elements that describe a sequence of operations that can be executed repeatedly to provide some service (e.g. buying a product in an e-commerce application), process some information (e.g. publishing some content in a CMS application), etc.