Symfony 2.8.7 released

Symfony 2.8.7 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:

• bug #18908 [DependencyInjection] force enabling the external XML entity loaders (xabbuh)
• bug #18893 [DependencyInjection] Skip deep reference check for 'service_container' (RobertMe)
• bug #18812 Catch Throwable (fprochazka)
• bug #18821 [Form] Removed UTC specification with timestamp (francisbesset)
• bug #18861 Fix for #18843 (inso)
• bug #18889 [Console] SymfonyStyle: Fix alignment/prefixing of multi-line comments (chalasr)
• bug #18907 [Routing] Fix the annotation loader taking a class constant as a beginning of a class name (jakzal, nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18879 [Console] SymfonyStyle: Align multi-line/very-long-line blocks (chalasr)
• bug #18864 [Console][DX] Fixed ambiguous error message when using a duplicate option shortcut (peterrehm)
• bug #18883 Fix js comment in profiler (linnaea)
• bug #18844 [Yaml] fix exception contexts (xabbuh)
• bug #18840 [Yaml] properly handle unindented collections (xabbuh)
• bug #18765 Catch Throwable (fprochazka)
• bug #18813 Catch Throwable (fprochazka)
• bug #18839 People - person singularization (Keeo)
• bug #18828 [Yaml] chomp newlines only at the end of YAML documents (xabbuh)
• bug #18814 Fixed server status command when port has been omitted (peterrehm)
• bug #18799 Use levenshtein level for better Bundle matching (j0k3r)
• bug #18413 [WebProfilerBundle] Fix CORS ajax security issues (romainneutron)
• bug #18774 [console][table] adjust width of colspanned cell. (aitboudad)
• bug #18507 [BUG] Delete class 'control-group' in bootstrap 3 (Philippe Degeeter)
• bug #18747 [Form] Modified iterator_to_array's 2nd parameter to false in ViolationMapper (issei-m)
• bug #18635 [Console] Prevent fatal error when calling Command::getHelper without helperSet (chalasr)
• bug #18686 [console][table] adjust width of colspanned cell. (aitboudad)
• bug #18761 [Form] Modified iterator_to_array's 2nd parameter to false in ViolationMapper (issei-m)
• bug #18737 [Debug] Fix fatal error handlers on PHP 7 (nicolas-grekas)

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