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Introducing the new Twig Playground

This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing bugs in maintenance versions and adding new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.3 release. Meanwhile, we published blog posts about the new Twig features and a new case study about Symfony.

Twig 3.15 introduces dynamic dot operator support, named arguments in macros, argument unpacking, and universal arrow function usage.

Relaunching our Symfony case studies! Discover how Upply tackled tough tech decisions like sticking with PHP for scalability and performance with Florent Laval

Twig 3.15 adds inline comments, the enum() function, the xor operator, improved operator precedence, JSON escaping, the guard tag, and enhanced deprecation handling.

This week, Symfony 7.2.1 was released as the first maintenance version of the 7.2 branch. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version introduced a new JsonEncoder component that is 10 times faster than the Serializer component and also supports streaming payloads.

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This week, Symfony celebrated the SymfonyCon 2024 Vienna conference with great success. This annual event brought together the global Symfony community to exchange ideas, learn new things, and collaborate on contributions to the Symfony project. In addition, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version introduced support for pre-compressing web assets and a new userIsGranted() security method to test user authorization without relying on the session.

This week, the stable Symfony 7.2.0 version was released, featuring tens of new additions. Additionally, we announced the Black Friday Symfony promotions. Furthermore, the maintenance releases for Symfony 5.4.48, 6.4.16, and 7.1.9 are now available. Finally, next week, the global Symfony community will gather in Vienna for the SymfonyCon 2024 conference.

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