A Week of Symfony #904 (22-28 April 2024)

This week, Symfony continued tweaking and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version. Meanwhile, Symfony UX 2.17 version was published, with the first stable release of Symfony UX Icons. Lastly, we published more information about some of the talks that will be part of the SymfonyOnline June 2024 and SymfonyLive Berlin 2024 conferences.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 37 pull requests were merged (22 in code and 15 in docs) and 32 issues were closed (29 in code and 3 in docs). Excluding merges, 24 authors made 21,347 additions and 11,414 deletions. See details for code and docs.

5.4 changelog:

• a4dc5f7: [PropertyInfo] fix PHPStan properties type in trait
• a597cc0: [Yaml] call substr() with integer offsets
• b5e67f7: [Form] read form values using the chain data accessor
• 868eb11: [Validator] detect wrong e-mail validation modes

6.4 changelog:

• 7796b21: [Messenger] explicitly cast boolean SSL stream options
• 598a21d: [Serializer] add AbstractNormalizerContextBuilder::defaultConstructorArguments() method
• 50faef9: [Validator] detect wrong usages of minMessage/maxMessage in options

7.1 changelog:

• 3903840: [TypeInfo] support \Stringable objects in StringTypeResolver
• 0d7c20a: [Validator] add missing HasNamedArguments attribute
• 462ab95: [DoctrineBridge] idle connection listener for long running runtime
• c834064: [RemoteEvent] fix date parsing remote event payload converter

Newest issues and pull requests

• [Messenger] Load Balancing between Consumers
• Injecting all tagged services in a service by variadic constructor
• [Mailer] Handle null & empty to/cc/bcc/reply-to addresses

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 5.8.16 version with the following changes:

• ci: upgrade actions/upload-artifact to fix Node.js 16 deprecation warning (@tucksaun)
• ci: cleanup config for less maintenance (@tucksaun)
• Upgraded github.com/docker/docker to fix CVE-2024-32473 (@SerheyDolgushev)
• Add available versions for the book (@fabpot)

They talked about us

• Symfony Station Communiqué - 26 April 2024
• It is Best to Embrace Design Patterns if You Work with Symfony
• Parthenon, the Symfony SaaS Boilerplate, Is Now Open Source
• Introducing Symfony Messenger integrations with Drupal
• Running a Symfony application on AWS Lambda (Part 2)
• Symfony 7 CRUD Operations: A Step-by-Step
• Fast-Track to Become A Bad Symfony Developer

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