A Week of Symfony #877 (16-22 October 2023)


This week, Symfony released the first beta of Symfony 6.4 and the first beta of Symfony 7.0 so you can test them in your own apps before their final releases. In addition, the Symfony 6.3.6 maintenance version was released. Meanwhile, the development activity was frantic in order to merge and tweak all the pending new features of Symfony 6.4 and 7.0.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 132 pull requests were merged (113 in code and 19 in docs) and 65 issues were closed (45 in code and 19 in docs). See details for code and docs.

5.4 changelog:

  • d28330f: [Messenger] fix DoctrineOpenTransactionLoggerMiddleware
  • bccdccc: [Serializer] fix collecting only first missing constructor argument
  • 754e482: [Notifier] handle Sendinblue error responses without a message key
  • a0df509: [HttpFoundation] do not swallow trailing = in cookie value
  • 3d4a4e1: [Form] fix merging params & files when "multiple" is enabled
  • 8c02677: [Cache] remove temporary cache item file on rename() failure
  • 5eb5ac6: [DoctrineBridge] fix tests with Doctrine DBAL 3.8
  • c4558e7: [HttpKernel] resolve EBADP error on flock with LOCK_SH with NFS
  • dc331c6: [Validator] update Portuguese translation
  • e58de24: [Validator] update Finnish translation
  • 3f7ed60: [Validator] update Uzbek translation
  • 800e613: [Validator] update Romanian translation
  • feecf2e: [Validator] update Arabic translation
  • 0aa03ae: [Validator] update Basque translation
  • 4b99b98: [Validator] update Danish translation

6.3 changelog:

  • 7b48483: [Messenger] fix requiring symfony/deprecation-contracts
  • fbd3a63: [Messenger] fix graceful exit with ids
  • e2336db: [Validator] handle null case

6.4 changelog:

  • 50662d0: [Scheduler] added PreRunEvent and PostRunEvent events
  • bc38faa: [Mime] update mime types
  • f13a4b1: [HttpFoundation] support Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS)
  • 48133f8: [HttpFoundation] cache trusted values
  • d30597d: [ErrorHandler] improve fileLinkFormat handling
  • 8ca6931: [AssetMapper] add a package specifier to importmap in case import name != package+path
  • 7cf6f77: [AssetMapper] put importmap in polyfill so it can be hosted locally easily
  • 934aea0: [Process] fix bug where $this->callback is never null, resulting in bad argument
  • abe5555: [ErrorHandler] fix file link format call in trace view
  • ba59377: [Scheduler] add FailureEvent
  • aa5ba21: [FrameworkBundle] introduce $buildDir argument to WarmableInterface::warmup to warm read-only artefacts in build_dir
  • 364cdce: [ErrorHandler] fix expected missing return types
  • ec43483: [Tests] use JsonMockResponse where applicable
  • f4b774f: [Notifier] handle error responses without a message key in Brevo
  • c6930e3: [Mime] throw InvalidArgumentException on invalid form field type inside array
  • b9122bc: [AssetMapper] link needs as="style"
  • 9233ea8: [AssetMapper] disable profiler when the 'dev server' respond
  • 814bcac, 67ecd29, 7402279: enable profiling commands
  • 1469612, c817241, 2f247cf: [FrameworkBundle, Routing, Serializer] deprecate annotations
  • 923ecdb: [HttpFoundation, Runtime] add $flush parameter to Response::send()
  • 347d26e: [FrameworkBundle] remove the .data_collector.command service if its class does not exist
  • 5c4757e: [HttpKernel] add missing class alias to satisfy autoloading
  • dc23c8e: [WebProfilerBundle] favor Twig's include() function over the include tag
  • 1a72bd5: [Translation] add argument $buildDir to DataCollectorTranslator::warmUp()
  • eee7e8f: [DoctrineBridge] change argument $lastUsed of DoctrineTokenProvider::updateToken() to accept DateTimeInterface
  • e942c1c: [Messenger] add AddFifoStamp middleware to Sqs
  • 5301b00: [HtmlSanitizer] add support for sanitizing unlimited length of HTML document
  • f5178e0: [FrameworkBundle, Routing, Translation, Workflow] move some compiler passes from FrameworkBundle to components
  • 071a971: [AssetMapper] warn of missing or incompat dependencies
  • 3f2d9d7: [AssetMapper] split ImportmapManager into two
  • 97bbd4e: [AssetMapper] using ?specifier=* does not match unstable packages on jsdelivr
  • 0284e95: [FrameworkBundle, Workflow] add WorflowGuardListenerPass only if it exists
  • 18df11d: [AssetMapper] optimize memory usage by loading only compilable assets
  • 124706b: [Workflow] add a TraceableWorkflow
  • 4292cc0: [FrameworkBundle] fix requiring moved translation compiler passes
  • e57ad37: [Intl] add support for emoji 15.1
  • 91a3a4f: [Workflow] list place and transition listeners in profiler
  • a19c534: [Notifier] implement overrides in Novu
  • 0e201d1: [FrameworkBundle, Validator] allow implementing validation groups provider outside DTOs
  • b6418aa: [HttpKernel] add parameters kernel.runtime_mode and kernel.runtime_mode.*, all set from env var APP_RUNTIME_MODE
  • 3b02e73: [AssetMapper] fixing bug of bad parsing of imports when an import then export are adjacent
  • d261eeb: [AssetMapper] allowing for files to be written to some non-local location
  • 790f6f5: [AssetMapper] normalizing path in test to fix / comparison in Windows

7.0 changelog:

  • e520db5: [HttpKernel] remove deprecation layer for Profiler
  • 950cd70: [FrameworkBundle, Routing] remove remaining deprecations

Newest issues and pull requests

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 5.6.0
version with the following changes:

  • Warn users to use sudo to mv command in bash-installer (@crydotsnake)
  • Update service versions (@fabpot)
  • Remove guessProjectRoot() (@fabpot)
  • Prevent potential panic when proxy fails connecting to local server (@tucksaun)
  • Fix generated cloud commands (@fabpot)
  • Fix cloud tunnels (@fabpot)
  • Fix cloud CLI executor (@fabpot)
  • Fix a few bugs to the way we run cloud CLIs (@fabpot)
  • Always use the latest version of the binary (@fabpot)
  • Allow version 4 of the Platform.sh CLI to be installed (@fabpot)
  • Add support in templates (@fabpot)
  • Add support for discovering apps in Upsun projects (@fabpot)
  • Add reading in .git/config to get the project ID (@fabpot)
  • Add more Upsun support in error/help messages (@fabpot)
  • Add missing alias (@fabpot)
  • Add Upsun support (@fabpot)
  • Add --upsun option to symfony new (@fabpot)

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