New in Symfony 2.7: PHPUnit Bridge
Symfony defines several bridges to abstract third-party libraries such as Doctrine, Monolog, Swiftmailer and Twig. In Symfony 2.7 we added a new bridge for PHPUnit.
April 28, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 2.7: VarDumper improvements
In Symfony 2.7 we made the VarDumper component dump() function easier to use and we also improved the dumping of complex variables such as PHP reflection classes.
April 27, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
A week of symfony #434 (20-26 April 2015)
This week, Symfony project introduced the Symfony Demo application as the official learning resource for Symfony newcomers. In addition, the Call for Papers for the SymfonyCon Paris 2015 conference was opened. Send your proposals before the 30th of June of 2015 to have a chance to speak at the biggest and most important event in the history of Symfony.
April 26, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 2.7: Form and Validator Updates
The Form and Validator components are one of the largest Symfony components. In Symfony 2.7 we improved them by adding new features and deprecating some existing features.
April 24, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 2.7: Dependency Injection Improvements
The DependencyInjection component allows you to standardize and centralize the way objects are constructed in your PHP applications. This component is used to create the service container, which is the biggest contributor to the extensibility of the Symfony framework. Symfony 2.7 improves this component with new features but it also removes some of its current features.
April 23, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 2.7: Choice form type refactorization
The Choice Form Type is one of the most advanced form types defined by Symfony. In Symfony 2.7 this form type has been completely refactored to support dynamic generation for labels, values, indexes and attributes.
April 22, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 2.7: Productivity improvements
Symfony 2.7 includes countless code tweaks and improvements. A lot of them are minor changes that will increase your day-to-day productivity. In this article we introduce seven of those small but nice features.
April 21, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
Introducing the Symfony Demo application
Today we're glad to officially introduce the Symfony Demo application, a fully-functional Symfony application developed as a learning resource.
April 20, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
A week of symfony #433 (13-19 April 2015)
This week, Symfony continued polishing the upcoming 2.7 version release with some bug fixes and minor tweaks. Meanwhile, we continued publishing articles about the great new features of Symfony 2.7: improved serializer, a new Twig profiler, minor security improvements and the new Asset component. Lastly, the SymfonyCon Paris 2015 conference announced its definitive venue and dates (3-5 December).
April 19, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 2.7: the new Asset component
Symfony 2.7 introduces a new component called Asset which manages URL generation and versioning of web assets such as CSS stylesheets, JavaScript files and image files.
April 17, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 2.7: Security Improvements
In addition to high impact changes and big features, the new Symfony versions always add tweaks and minor improvements across its codebase. In this article you'll learn about three small security-related changes that will improve your day-to-day productivity as developer.
April 16, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
SymfonyCon Paris is announced: December 3-5!
Save the date for SymfonyCon Paris 2015: December 3-5! Early bird tickets are on sale and limited to the first 100 attendees, register now to enjoy the early bird! Call for Papers is open until June 30th, send your talk proposals now!
April 15, 2015
Anne-Sophie Bachelard
New in Symfony 2.7: Twig Profiler
In Symfony project we believe that all the information relevant to developers should be one click away. That's why in Symfony 2.7 we've added a new panel with Twig information in the web debug toolbar.
April 14, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 2.7: Serializer Component Improvements
In Symfony 2.7, the Symfony Serializer component has been greatly improved with lots of new features. This article introduces the most important ones.
April 13, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
A month of Symfony Documentation #4 (March 2015)
With Symfony 2.7 feature freeze at the end of this month, lots of documentation about new features were merged. Besides this, the doc team focussed on fixing some issues and following the best practices.
April 13, 2015
Wouter de Jong
A week of symfony #432 (6-12 April 2015)
This week, during the Symfony Live Paris 2015 conference, a new transition Symfony 2.8 version was announced. Meanwhile, the first beta of Symfony 2.7 was released, including more than 100 new features and enhancements. Lastly, the most significant change in the Symfony 2.7 branch was the adoption of the PSR-4 standard instead of PSR-0.
April 12, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
Transition from Symfony 2.7 to 3.0... Symfony 2.8 on its way
A new Symfony 2.8 is going to scheduled after Symfony 2.7. And here is why we need it.
April 10, 2015
Fabien Potencier
New in Symfony 2.7: Translation Profiler
Symfony 2.7 includes a new toolbar translation panel and a new translation profiler to display detailed information about your application internationalization.
April 8, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 2.7: Default Date and Number Format Configuration
Symfony 2.7 adds two new Twig configuration options to define the default formatting of both numbers and dates without the need to write custom code.
April 7, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
A week of symfony #431 (30 March - 5 April 2015)
This week, Symfony published 2.3.27, 2.5.11 and 2.6.6 security releases. In addition, the Form component refactored choice lists to support dynamic label, value, index and attribute generation, the Translation component added a new translation profiler and the Console component introduced a new style guide to update the built-in commands appearance. Lastly, the master branch continued removing deprecated features that won't be available in Symfony 3.0.
April 5, 2015
Javier Eguiluz
CVE-2015-2308: Esi Code Injection
CVE-2015-2308 is about possible code injections via the ESI framework.
April 1, 2015
Fabien Potencier
CVE-2015-2309: Unsafe methods in the Request class
CVE-2015-2309 fixes some unsafe methods in the Request class.
April 1, 2015
Fabien Potencier