A Week of Symfony #707 (13-19 July 2020)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.2 version added polyfills for the new PHPUnit 9.1 assertions, added a new method to get the contents of uploaded files and improved the list of MIME types by switching its source.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 30 pull requests were merged (19 in code and 11 in docs) and 25 issues were closed (14 in code and 11 in docs). Excluding merges, 20 authors made 1,221 additions and 210 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

• a3bd36c: [DependencyInjection, Config] used several placeholder unique prefixes for dynamic placeholder values
• b34abaf: [Mime] keep Sender full address when used by non-SMTP transports
• f617380: [Mime] fixed compat with HTTP requests
• fd13f5f: [Mailer] fixed reply-to functionality in the SendgridApiTransport
• 8308861: [Mailer] fixed mandrill raw http request setting from email/name
• 63d886f: [WebProfilerBundle] modified URL generation to always use absolute URLs

Master changelog:

• 5a61446: [Mime] switching source of mime types from Apache to MIME-db
• a4550da: [HttpFoundation] added File::getContent()
• 488e2c9: [PhpUnitBridge] polyfill new phpunit 9.1 assertions
• 367aa1d: [HttpKernel] hide "_password" in request data collector raw content

Symfony CLI

Symfony CLI is a must-have tool when developing Symfony applications on your local machine. It includes the Symfony Local Server, the best way to run local Symfony applications. This week Symfony CLI released its new 4.17.2 version with the following changes:

• Add Github actions support to security:check

Newest issues and pull requests

• [RFC] [Form] Improve handling of domain objects in forms
• [Security] Allow to authenticate User on another firewall
• [Mailer] Allow to set Transport from MessageEvent
• [Mailer] Add advanced logger
• Allow to set hint when using EntityType and query_builder
• [Security] Pass Passport to LoginFailureEvent

They talked about us

• 10 Cool Features You Get after switching from YAML to PHP Configs
• Deploying a Symfony 4/5 Application on AWS Fargate (part 1)
• How to login a user in unit test within Symfony in an example
• Deploying a Symfony 4/5 Application on AWS Fargate (part 2)
• Symfony Request tutorial
• Symfony. Configurando un Front-end reactivo con SvelteJS
• Symfony. 5 trucos del componente Validator
• La Comisión Europea publica su primera aplicación Symfony
• Управление секретами в Symfony

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