Symfony 2.7.9 released

Symfony 2.7.9 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:

• security #17359 do not ship with a custom rng implementation (xabbuh, fabpot)
• bug #17314 Fix max width for multibyte keys in choice question (mheki)
• bug #17326 [Console] Display console application name even when no version set (polc)
• bug #17328 [Serializer] Allow to use proxies in object_to_populate (dunglas)
• bug #17347 Workaround https://bugs.php.net/63206 (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #17140 [Serializer] Remove normalizer cache in Serializer class (jvasseur)
• bug #17307 [FrameworkBundle] Fix paths with % in it (like urlencoded) (scaytrase)
• bug #17078 [Bridge] [Doctrine] [Validator] Added support IteratorAggregate for UniqueEntityValidator (Disparity)
• bug #17298 [FrameworkBundle] Use proper class to fetch $versionStrategy property (dosten)
• bug #17287 [HttpKernel] Forcing string comparison on query parameters sort in UriSigner (Tim van Densen)
• bug #17279 [FrameworkBundle] Add case in Kernel directory guess for PHPUnit (tgalopin)
• bug #17278 [FrameworkBundle] Add case in Kernel directory guess for PHPUnit (tgalopin)
• bug #17275 [PhpUnitBridge] Re-enable the garbage collector (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #17276 [Process] Fix potential race condition (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #17183 [FrameworkBundle] Set the kernel.name properly after a cache warmup (jakzal)
• bug #17159 [Yaml] recognize when a block scalar is left (xabbuh)
• bug #17195 bug #14246 [Filesystem] dumpFile() non atomic (Hidde Boomsma)
• feature #16747 [Form] Improved performance of ChoiceType and its subtypes (webmozart)
• bug #17177 [Process] Fix potential race condition leading to transient tests (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #17163 [Form] fix Catchable Fatal Error if choices is not an array (Gladhon, nicolas-grekas)
• bug #17119 [Form] improve deprecation message for "empty_value" and "choice_list" options. (hhamon)

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