Symfony 4.1 curated new features

New Components

• Messenger (sroze) #24411 improved by many other pull requests:

  • Allow to scope handlers per bus (ogizanagi, sroze) #27275
  • Uses custom method names for handlers (sroze) #27034
  • Add debug:messenger CLI command (ro0NL, sroze) #26803
  • Support configuring messages when dispatching (ogizanagi) #26945
  • Add a time limit receiver (sdelicata) #27130
  • Add a memory limit option for ConsumeMessagesCommand` (sdelicata) `#26975
  • Define multiple buses from the framework.messenger.buses` configuration (sroze) `#26864
  • Allow to configure the transport (sroze) #26941
  • Add AMQP adapter (sroze) #26632
  • Add a MessageHandlerInterface (multiple messages + auto-configuration) #26685 (sroze)
  • Add a middleware that validates messages (Nyholm) #26648
  • Add a middleware that wraps all handlers in one Doctrine transaction. (Nyholm) #26647
  • Clone messages to show in profiler (Nyholm) #26650

Console

• Add box-double table style (maidmaid) #26693
• Add box style table (maidmaid) #25301
• Modify console output and print multiple modifyable sections (pierredup) #24363
• Add option to automatically run suggested command if there is only 1 alternative (pierredup) #25732

DependencyInjection

• Validate env vars in config (ro0NL) #23888
• Add a simple CSV env var processor (dunglas) #25627
• Allow binary values in parameters (bburnichon) #25928
• Anonymous services in PHP DSL (unkind) #24632
• Add support for variadics in named arguments (PabloKowalczyk) #24937

Form

• Add choice_translation_locale option for Intl choice types (yceruto, fabpot) #26825
• Add a data_help method in Form (mpiot, Nyholm) #26332
• Ability to set rounding strategy for MoneyType (syastrebov) #26767

FrameworkBundle

• Add PSR-11 "ContainerBag" to access parameters as-a-service (nicolas-grekas, sroze) #25288
• Add ControllerTrait::getParameter() (chalasr) #25439
• Add support to 307/308 HTTP status codes in RedirectController (ZipoKing) #26213
• Deprecate bundle:controller:action and service:method notation (Tobion) #26085
• Allow fetching private services from test clients (nicolas-grekas) #26499
• Add command to delete an item from a cache pool (pierredup) #26223
• framework.php_errors.log now accept a log level (Simperfit) #26504
• Keep query in redirect (Simperfit) #26281
• Add the ability to search a route (Simperfit) #26121
• Add cache.app.simple psr simple cache (dmaicher) #25710
• Add email_validation_mode option (xabbuh) #25478
• Add atom editor to ide config (lexcast) #25415

HttpFoundation

• Add a migrating session handler (rossmotley) #26096
• Add HeaderUtils class (c960657) #24699
• Split FileException into specialized ones about upload handling (fmata) #26475
• RedisSessionHandler (dkarlovi) #24781

Process

• Introduce signaled process specific exception class (Soullivaneuh) #25775
• Make PhpExecutableFinder look for the PHP_BINARY env var (nicolas-grekas) #25629
• Create a "isTtySupported" static method (nesk) #25142

Routing

• Allow no-slash root on imported routes (nicolas-grekas) #26284
• Allow inline definition of requirements and defaults (nicolas-grekas) #26518
• Implement i18n routing (frankdejonge, nicolas-grekas) #26143
• Match 77.7x faster by compiling routes in one regexp (nicolas-grekas) #26059
• Parse PHP constants in YAML routing files (ostrolucky) #25293

Serializer

• Cache the normalizer to use when possible (dunglas, nicolas-grekas) #27049
• Allow to access to the context and various other infos in callbacks and max depth handler (dunglas) #27017
• Added a ConstraintViolationListNormalizer (lyrixx) #22150
• Ignore comments when decoding XML (q0rban) #26445
• Add a MaxDepth handler (dunglas) #26108
• add a constructor argument to return csv always as collection (Simperfit) #25218
• add a context key to return always as collection for XmlEncoder (Simperfit) #25369
• Fix security issue on CsvEncoder about CSV injection (welcoMattic) #24508
• default_constructor_arguments context option for denormalization (Nek-) #25493
• Serialize and deserialize from abstract classes (sroze) #24375
• Parse PHP constants in YAML mappings (ostrolucky) #25294

Twig

• Make csrf_token() usable without forms (xabbuh) #25197
• Add priority to twig extensions (Brunty) #24777
• Do not normalize array keys in twig globals (lstrojny) #26770
• Deprecate "false" in favor of "kernel.debug" as default value of "strict_variable" (yceruto) #25780

Security

• Allow using custom function inside allow_if expressions (dmaicher) #26660
• Deprecate AdvancedUserInterface (iltar) #23508
• Add configuration for Argon2i encryption (CoalaJoe) #26175
• Make security.providers optional (MatTheCat) #26787

Validator

• Html5 Email Validation (PurpleBooth) #24442
• Deprecated "checkDNS" option in Url constraint (ro0NL) #25516
• Deprecate use of Locale validation constraint without setting "canonicalize" option to true` (phansys) `#26075
• Support protocolless URLs validation (MyDigitalLife) #24308
• Add canonicalize option for Locale validator (phansys) #22353
• Add option to pass custom values to Expression validator (ostrolucky) #25504

VarDumper

• Add dd() helper == dump() + exit() (nicolas-grekas) #26970
• Introduce a new way to collect dumps through a server dumper (ogizanagi, nicolas-grekas) #23831
• Provide binary, allowing to start a server at any time (ogizanagi) #26654
• Add a GMP caster in order to cast GMP resources into string or integer (Simperfit) #25237

WebProfiler

• Live duration of AJAX request (ostrolucky) #26668
• Expose dotenv variables (ro0NL) #25166
• Make WDT follow ajax requests if header set (jeffreymb) #26655
• Display the missing translation panel by default (javiereguiluz) #26398
• Display orphaned events in profiler (kejwmen) #24392

Workflow

• Added a new 'all' method on the registry (alexpozzi, lyrixx) #26656
• Added a TransitionException (andrewtch, lyrixx) #26651
• Add a MetadataStore to fetch some metadata (lyrixx) #26092
• Add transition blockers (d-ph, lyrixx) #26076
• Remove constraints on transition/place name (lyrixx) #26079
• Add PlantUML dumper to workflow:dump command (Plopix) #24705
• Workflow name as graph label (shdev) #25148
• Introduce a Workflow interface (Simperfit) #24751

Miscellaneous

• [Lock] Add a TTL to refresh lock (jderusse) #26232
• [Monolog] Add a Monolog activation strategy for ignoring specific HTTP codes (simshaun, fabpot) #23707
• [LDAP] Allow adding and removing values to/from multi-valued attributes (jean-gui) #21856
• [BrowserKit] Add a way to switch to ajax for one request (Simperfit) #24778
• [HttpKernel] Add Kernel::getAnnotatedClassesToCompile() (nicolas-grekas) #27168
• [HttpKernel] LoggerDataCollector: splitting logs on different sub-requests (vtsykun) #23659
• [HttpKernel] Make session-related services extra-lazy (nicolas-grekas) #25836
• [Intl] Add polyfill for Locale::canonicalize() (nicolas-grekas) #26152
• [Translation] Added support for name on the unit node (Nyholm) #26149
• [PropertyInfo] Add hassers for accessors prefixes (sebdec) #23617
• Unwrap errors in FlattenException (derrabus) #26028
• More compact display of vendor code in exception pages (javiereguiluz) #26671
• Add clean option to assets install command (robinlehrmann) #24216

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