Symfony 2.8.18 released

Symfony 2.8.18 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:

• bug #21841 [Console] Do not squash input changes made from console.command event (chalasr)
• bug #21671 [Serializer] Xml encoder throws exception for valid data (gr1ev0us)
• bug #21805 Provide less state in getRequestFormat (dawehner)
• bug #21832 [Routing] Ignore hidden directories when loading routes from annotations (jakzal)
• bug #21769 [Form] Improve rounding precision (foaly-nr1)
• bug #21825 [PhpUnitBridge] disable global test listener when not registered (xabbuh)
• bug #21267 [Form] Fix ChoiceType to ensure submitted data is not nested unnecessarily (issei-m)
• bug #21731 Fix emacs link (rubenrua)
• bug #21800 Fix issues reported by static analyze (romainneutron)
• bug #21798 Revert "bug #21791 [SecurityBundle] only pass relevant user provider (xabbuh)" (xabbuh)
• bug #21791 [SecurityBundle] only pass relevant user provider (xabbuh)
• bug #21787 [PhpUnitBridge] do not register the test listener twice (xabbuh)
• bug #21756 [Yaml] Stop replacing NULLs when merging (gadelat)
• bug #21689 [WebServerBundle] fixed html attribute escape (Seb33300)
• bug #21722 [ExpressionLanguage] Registering functions after calling evaluate(), compile() or parse() is not supported (maidmaid)
• bug #21679 [SecurityBundle] fix priority ordering of security voters (xabbuh)
• bug #21115 [Validator] do not guess getter method names (xabbuh)
• bug #21670 [DependencyInjection] Fix autowiring types when there are more than 2 services colliding (GuilhemN)
• bug #21665 [DependencyInjection] Fix autowiring collisions detection (nicolas-grekas, GuilhemN)
• bug #21661 Fix Composer constraints (fabpot)
• bug #21582 [HttpCache] purge both http and https from http cache (dbu)
• bug #21637 [FrameworkBundle] remove translation data collector when not usable (xabbuh)
• bug #21634 [VarDumper] Added missing persistent stream cast (lyrixx)
• bug #21436 [DependencyInjection] check for circular refs caused by method calls (xabbuh)
• bug #21400 [Serializer] fix upper camel case conversion (see #21399) (markusu49)
• bug #21599 [Console][Table] fixed render when using multiple rowspans. (aitboudad)
• bug #21613 [Process] Permit empty suffix on Windows (Bilge)
• bug #21057 [DI] Auto register extension configuration classes as a resource (ro0NL)
• bug #21592 [Validator] property constraints can be added in child classes (angelk, xabbuh)
• bug #21458 [Config] Early return for DirectoryResource (robfrawley)
• bug #21562 [DoctrineBridge] make sure that null can be the invalid value (xabbuh)
• bug #21584 [WebProfilerBundle] Readd Symfony version status in the toolbar (wouterj)
• bug #21557 [VarDumper] Improve dump of AMQP* Object (lyrixx)
• bug #21542 [VarDumper] Fixed dumping of terminated generator (lyrixx)

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