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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.
October 1, 2014 #Living on the edge
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.
September 30, 2014 #Living on the edge
Symfony 2.6 will allow to define much simpler security voters thanks to the new AbstractVoter class.
September 29, 2014 #Living on the edge
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.
September 26, 2014 #Living on the edge
Symfony 2.6 will add five new helpers to the base controller class: redirectToRoute(), addFlash(), isGranted(), denyAccessUnlessGranted() and isCsrfTokenValid().
September 25, 2014 #Living on the edge
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.
September 24, 2014 #Living on the edge
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.
September 23, 2014 #Living on the edge
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.
September 22, 2014 #Living on the edge
Symfony 2.6 will include a new security:check command, which looks for known security vulnerabilities in your project's dependencies.
August 26, 2014 #Living on the edge
Symfony 2.6 adds support for embedding notes in XLIFF files. This will allow to include contextual information to improve translations.
July 17, 2014 #Living on the edge