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New in Symfony 2.6: Farewell to ICU component
Symfony 2.6 will deprecate the Icu component and it will only use the Intl component. All the internationalization data has been bundled in Intl to avoid the usual problems caused by the PHP intl extension.
New in Symfony 2.6: Security component improvements
Symfony Security component will introduce in Symfony 2.6 version a major refactoring of the security.context service, a new service to simplify password encoding, a new REMOTE_USER based firewall and a new authentication helper.
New in Symfony 2.6: Improvements for the Translation component
Symfony 2.6 will include some improvements for the Translation component: adding the target language when dumping XLIFF files, a new method to expose collected messages, a new message catalogue cache and the logging of missing translations.
New in Symfony 2.6: AJAX requests in the web debug toolbar
In Symfony 2.6, the web debug toolbar will include a new panel called AJAX to boost your productivity while debugging applications. This panel shows in real-time the number of AJAX requests performed in the page being displayed.
New in Symfony 2.6: Simpler Security Voters
Symfony 2.6 will allow to define much simpler security voters thanks to the new AbstractVoter class.
New in Symfony 2.6: Date support for Validator constraints
Comparing dates is one of the most frequently requested functionalities for the Symfony Validator component. That's why Symfony 2.6 will include date support for comparison and range constraints.
New in Symfony 2.6: New shortcut methods for controllers
Symfony 2.6 will add five new helpers to the base controller class: redirectToRoute(), addFlash(), isGranted(), denyAccessUnlessGranted() and isCsrfTokenValid().
New in Symfony 2.6: LockHandler
Symfony 2.6 will introduce a new LockHandler that provides a simple abstraction to lock anything by means of a file lock. It's most common use case is to avoid race conditions by locking commands, so the same command cannot be executed concurrently by different processes.
New in Symfony 2.6: Smarter assets:install command
Starting from Symfony 2.6, the behavior of the assets:install command will be smarter. Now, when your system doesn't support symbolic links or if there is any other problem, the command will silently fall back to make a hard copy of the assets and it will inform you about this.
Symfony 2.6 fast approaching its stabilization phase
We are a few days from the end of Symfony 2.6 development phase. Therefore, this is our last chance to finish all the pending pull requests in time for Symfony 2.6.