A Week of Symfony #947 (17-23 February 2025)
This week, development activity focused on new security features. The upcoming Symfony 7.3 version added support for security voters to explain their vote, improved the IsGranted attribute to allow using PHP callables, and made some changes to enhance the DX of recent security additions.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 32 pull requests were merged (22 in code and 10 in docs) and 16 issues were closed (12 in code and 4 in docs). Excluding merges, 20 authors made 3,158 additions and 1,765 deletions. See details for code and docs.
f48cf1b: [Semaphore] allow redis cluster/sentinel dsn
757fcbb: [Mime] use address for body at PathHeader
b88f9b5: [Validator] synchronize IBAN formats
d6e0af4: [DependencyInjection] defer check for circular references instead of skipping them
365aca3: [Stopwatch] fix StopWatchEvent never throws InvalidArgumentException
33f70b7: [TypeInfo] fix create union with nullable type
385efaf: [DependencyInjection] fix phpdoc for $configurator in Autoconfigure attribute
2962567: [Security] add ability for voters to explain their vote
f48e068: [Messenger] add TransportMessageIdStamp logic for AMQP
3ef4f4e: [Notifier] return the record CID as additional info in Bluesky bridge
ab6c611: [Security] allow using a callable with #[IsGranted]
77b8358: [TypeInfo] add type alias support
560a484: [Framework] deprecate the framework.validation.cache config option
dfd8e53: [Validator] add support for closures in When constraint
68944f5: [JsonEncoder] replace normalizers by value transformers
0fc079f: [Messenger] add options to specify SQS queue attributes and tags
aa53b94: [PropertyInfo] replace NameScope by TypeInfo’s TypeContext
0c7c251: [Security] improve DX of recent additions
Newest issues and pull requests
[Cache] Enable namespace-based invalidation by prefixing keys with backend-native namespace separators
[Form] Define the labels of the BirthdayType
[TypeInfo] Add ArrayShapeType class
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 5.11.0,
version with the following changes:
Improve cleaning up stale temp directories if workers fail to shutdown (@tucksaun)
Extract WSL check fron symfony-cli/console package (@tucksaun)
Make command names case insensitive (@tucksaun)
Fix Docker client version (@fabpot)
Bump proxy and dependencies (@fabpot)
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SymfonyCasts Updates
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This week, SymfonyCasts published the following updates:
(Video) Symfony 7 – Mailer and Webhook with Mailtrap: Production Sending with Mailtrap
They talked about us
Symfony Station Communiqué – 21 February 2025
Symfony Certification
Automatically Generate Bruno API Collections from Your Symfony Routes
Introducing the Symfony Dependency Injection Container in Legacy Code
Building REST APIs With API Platform and MongoDB
Load Stimulus Controllers in Symfony EasyAdmin
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