A Week of Symfony #762 (2-8 August 2021)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version added new integrations to the Notifier component, marked the Request::get() method as internal and introduced a smooth upgrade path for security factories. In addition, the free community-provided Symfony support was moved to GitHub Discussions.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 50 pull requests were merged (40 in code and 10 in docs) and 41 issues were closed (36 in code and 5 in docs). Excluding merges, 31 authors made 1,805 additions and 259 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

• f2f96a0: [HttpKernel] always close open stopwatch section after handling kernel.request events
• ed0a307: [Routing] add test for non-callable arrays as controllers
• 86fd2cc: [Translation] report mismatches between trans-unit id and source text via status script
• 4f2987d: [Cache] do not add namespace argument to NullAdapter in CachePoolPass

5.3 changelog:

• 094233f: [HttpKernel] remove preloading legacy event dispatcher
• e617a9b: [Security] remove time-sensitivity from LoginLinkHandlerTest
• 3928a45: [Messenger] separate unit tests from integration tests
• 36ebebb: [HttpFoundation] don't pass null to strpos()
• a206e77: [DependencyInjection] fix ServiceLocator indexing when service is decorated
• 2b0c65f: [Console] don't pass null to preg_replace()

5.4 changelog:

• 07a93b1: [Serializer] better value for constant Serializer::EMPTY_ARRAYS_AS_OBJECT
• 52ce2af: [Notifier] add TurboSms bridge
• 7c1820d: [Notifier] add FakeChat Logger transport
• 7d370f1: [Notifier] add SentMessageEvent and FailedMessageEvent
• 2d42a8a: [HttpFoundation] mark Request::get() internal
• 2f8ac04: [FrameworkBundle] remove unused conditions in Translation commands
• c9f821a: [DependencyInjection] remove unused code in DecoratorServicePass
• f041e03: [Console] add return type to OutputFormatterInterface::format()
• fcd3a0c: [HttpFoundation] add SessionFactoryInterface
• bb68baf: [HttpFoundation] add litespeed_finish_request to Response
• 810599d: [Security] deprecate PassportInterface
• 65e1463: [Mime] fix invalid DKIM signature
• 8e984fa: [SecurityBundle] create a smooth upgrade path for security factories

6.0 changelog:

• 8258238: [Form] add types to private properties

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 4.25.5 version with the following changes:

• Fix Mercure env vars

Newest issues and pull requests

• [Messenger] Add RabbitMQ streams support
• [Messenger] Remove ability to delete message in retry command
• [Form] ResizeFormListener performance issues

They talked about us

• From requests to typed objects
• A way to centrally handle Doctrine/Symfony access control
• Create a Notifier Transport in Symfony
• How to delete… not to delete yourself?
• Capítulo 5. Lo que aprendí de DDD. Eventos de dominio
• Symfony — Créer des fixtures avec AliceBundle

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