December 19–25, 2016 A Week of Symfony #521

This week Symfony fixed some obsolete PHPUnit getMock() usage and introduced new method shortcuts for ArrayNodeDefinition. In addition, the upcoming Symfony 3.3 version proposed the creation of a new WebServerBundle and the deprecation of the Templating component.

Symfony development highlights

2.7 changelog:

• f1675c2: [WebProfilerBundle] display multiple HTTP headers in WDT
• 3008fa3: fixed obsolete PHPUnit getMock() usage
• 2f24e69: [Form] fixed group sequence based validation
• 0bb7eaf: [Console] fixed question formatting using SymfonyStyle::ask
• 7fa18ba: [TwigBridge] fixed Twig 2.x compatibility
• a4ac1a7: [Console] improved code coverage of Command class

2.8 changelog:

• f1d8575: [FrameworkBundle] made TemplateController working without the Templating component

3.2 changelog:

• 2344c22: [FrameworkBundle] fixed PHP form templates on translatable attributes
• 0a4a92b: [Validator] phpize default option values
• 978a13b: [Serializer] fixed MaxDepth annotation exceptions
• 3e874dc: [TwigBundle] do not try to register incomplete definitions
• 2ef2264: [TwigBundle] do not remove the Twig ExceptionController service

Master changelog:

• d221a4e: [Config] provide shorthand methods for ArrayNodeDefinition
• ed5b1d8: [DependencyInjection] deprecate dumping an uncompiled container
• 2de9dd1: added missing upgrade path for Request::isMethodSafe() deprecation
• 5c5c911: [TwigBridge] late deprecation for TwigRendererEngine::setEnvironment()

Newest issues and pull requests

• Reduce the perceived complexity of the security component
• [DX] Smarter web server commands
• Provide request context in a consistent manner
• [Console] Global format option for commands
• Should we use fully qualified function calls?
• [RFC] Simple form mapping via data objects
• http_cache directory feature

Twig development highlights

Master changelog:

• 9dd38e2: deprecate the "disable_c_ext" attribute on Twig_Node_Expression_GetAttr
• c336282: deprecate function/test/filter/tag overriding
• 2fd05fd: add a simple Twig_RuntimeLoaderInterface implementation

They talked about us

• Symfony: the Myth of the Bloated Framework
• Lesser known Symfony eCommerce projects: WellCommerce and ONGR
• Rendering Semester & Year in Symfony Form
• Symfony3 Blog Demo Remix (Part 2): Updating to MySQL
• SymfonyDay Italy videos (Scaling Symfony and Symfony Forms)
• Utiliser des bundles Symfony dans Drupal 7
• Symfony — комбинируем GridFS файлы с ORM сущностями