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Remembering Ryan Weaver: Teacher, Core Team Member, Friend

New in Symfony 7.3 Static Error Pages

In Symfony 7.3, you can export your error pages as static HTML so the server serves them instantly without running the app.
May 6, 2025 #Living on the edge 👀 4 ❤️ 12 👍 22 🚀 9

New in Symfony 7.3 Simpler Server Event Streaming

In Symfony 7.3, streaming server-sent events is now simpler thanks to the new ServerEvent and EventStreamResponse classes.
May 5, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 26 👍 7 🚀 11 🎉 6

New in Symfony 7.3 Configurable Compound Rate Limiter

In Symfony 7.3, you can now configure compound rate limiters without writing custom code.
May 2, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 14 👍 6 🚀 5

New in Symfony 7.3 Extra Runtime Dot Env Files

Symfony 7.3 adds support for loading multiple runtime .env files, making environment configuration more flexible and dynamic.
May 1, 2025 #Living on the edge 👀 5 👍 8 🚀 5

New in Symfony 7.3 Arbitrary User Permission Checks

In Symfony 7.3, you can now check permissions for any user with the new isGrantedForUser() method.
April 30, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 38 👍 10 🚀 11 🎉 10

New in Symfony 7.3 Slug and Twig Constraints

Symfony 7.3 introduces two new constraints to validate slugs and Twig templates.
April 29, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 9 👍 11 🚀 4 🎉 2

New in Symfony 7.3 Twig Extension Attributes

Symfony 7.3 introduces PHP attributes for Twig extensions, making them simpler to write, easier to maintain, and lazy-loaded by default.
April 28, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 39 👍 12 🚀 15 🎉 8

New in Symfony 7.3 Global Translation Parameters

Symfony 7.3 introduces global translation parameters you can reuse across messages without passing them explicitly.
April 24, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 7 👍 16 🚀 5

New in Symfony 7.3 Assets Pre-Compression

Symfony 7.3 allows to pre-compress web assets like CSS and JavaScript files to save CPU by avoiding dynamic compression on each request.
April 23, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 14 👍 7 🚀 7 🎉 6

New in Symfony 7.3 Invokable Commands and Input Attributes

Symfony 7.3 introduces a simpler way of defining console commands and their arguments/options using PHP attributes.
April 22, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 53 👍 18 🚀 15 🎉 10