A week of symfony #552 (24-30 July 2017)
This week, Symfony development activity focused again on improving performance. First, the VarDumper component reduced the triggering of the garbage collector and lowered the memory consumption. Second, the DependencyInjection component now generates leaner service containers and it proposed to generate multiple files per container. Lastly, a new command to debug form types was proposed.
July 30, 2017
Javier Eguiluz
A week of symfony #551 (17-23 July 2017)
This week, Symfony 2.7.32, 2.8.25, 3.2.12 and 3.3.5 security releases were published. Meanwhile, we continued optimizing the performance of the service container. Lastly, the Symfony Core Team added two new members.
July 23, 2017
Javier Eguiluz
CVE-2017-11365: Empty passwords validation issue
CVE-2017-11365 fixes a regression which allows empty passwords to be always valid for any user.
July 17, 2017
Fabien Potencier
A week of symfony #550 (10-16 July 2017)
This week, the upcoming Symfony 3.4 version added support for lazy-loaded console commands to improve performance. Meanwhile, Symfony 3.3 also improved performance by optimizing the profiler data generated by VarDumper. Lastly, we added support for the new types defined by Doctrine DBAL.
July 16, 2017
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 3.4: Lazy commands
In Symfony 3.4, console commands can be lazy-loaded, so the application doesn't have to instantiate all of them when running any command.
July 13, 2017
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 3.4: Stopwatch improvements
In Symfony 3.4, the Stopwatch component allows to reset all its time measures and removes the sub-millisecond restriction to allow time measures with arbitrary precision.
July 12, 2017
Javier Eguiluz
A week of symfony #549 (3-9 July 2017)
This week, Symfony published the 2.7.31, 2.8.24, 3.2.11 and 3.3.4 maintenance versions. Meanwhile, we fixed some edge cases in the Dotenv component, reduced the size of the profiler files and improved the error message shown when the debug toolbar cannot be displayed.
July 9, 2017
Javier Eguiluz
New in Symfony 3.4: Validator information in the Symfony profiler
In Symfony 3.4, the web debug toolbar and the profiler will include a new panel to collect information about validator calls.
July 7, 2017
Javier Eguiluz