This week, Symfony 5.3 made the last tweaks and fixes before its final release. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.0 version started working on removing legacy code and adding PHP types across the entire codebase. Lastly, Symfony announced a new SymfonyWorld Online Winter Edition conference (December 9-10) which will complement the imminent SymfonyWorld Online Summer Edition on June 17-18.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 71 pull requests were merged (55 in code and 16 in docs) and 24 issues were closed (18 in code and 6 in docs). Excluding merges, 27 authors made 1,064 additions and 833 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

7ccda8e: [Form] fix support for years outside of the 32b range on x86
12030e5: [HttpKernel] fix file_get_content() in HttpCache’s Store for PHP7.4+
54bee29: [Filesystem] fix readlink() for Windows
519d348: [DependencyInjection] keep container.service_subscriber tag on the decorated definition
9b89b2e: [Form] use !isset for checks cause this doesn’t falsely include 0

5.3 changelog:

24a1c28: [SecurityBundle] don’t register deprecated listeners with authenticator manager enabled
7e9dbec: [HttpKernel] throw when HttpKernel is created and the env is empty
519d348: [DependencyInjection] keep container.service_subscriber tag on the decorated definition

5.4 changelog:

cfb1016: [HttpKernel] fix compatibility with Symfony 6

6.0 changelog:

7954200: [Messenger] remove legacy code paths
1cdd48d: [Routing] remove deprecation layer
a6ed11e: [PropertyAccess] remove deprecated code
5f101e0: [Intl] remove deprecated code
0cb0ccf: [Inflector] remove the component
a2d1e80: remove Serializable implementations
d9f0467: [Mailer] remove deprecated code
4b8256d: leverage Stringable
9dc4ef3: [String] add types to all arguments
6cbca1e: [Yaml] add types to all arguments
f7eee41: [Workflow] add types to all arguments
dccdf0f: [VarDumper] add types to all arguments

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 4.25.2 version
with the following changes:

Fix PHP version used by symfony composer

Newest issues and pull requests

[Translation] Rename translation:update command
Add a route pattern (route path) to the UrlMatcher/RouterListener
Process::escapeArgument as a service class

They talked about us

Symfony / Doctrine — database encryption
Microsoft Teams notifications with Monolog and custom Handler
Symfony 5 KnpSnappyBundle & wkhtmltopdf Setup and Example
Sylius Behat scenarios in Chrome Headless inside Docker

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