A Week of Symfony #928 (7-13 October 2024)


This week, development activity focused on Symfony 7.2, as tweaks and features continue to be merged ahead of its release at the end of November 2024. Additionally, we published the first post in the new in Symfony 7.2 series. Lastly, we shared more details about some of the talks from the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 49 pull requests were merged (40 in code and 9 in docs) and 38 issues were closed (27 in code and 11 in docs). Excluding merges, 28 authors made 4,337 additions and 782 deletions. See details for code and docs.

5.4 changelog:

  • cc3fb70: [MonologBridge] fix PHP deprecation with preg_match()
  • 9d3e371: [HttpFoundation] session names must not be empty in tests

7.1 changelog:

  • b6a9fe3: [Validator] fix error message for OutOfRangeNetmask validation in CidrValidator

7.2 changelog:

  • 8b2ffdd: [Webhook] add Mailchimp webhook
  • e2fa11b: [Mailer] support region in sendgrid bridge
  • 6864dbe: [FrameworkBundle] fine tune AboutCommand
  • f18789f: [Console, Messenger] asynchronously notify transports which messages are still being processed
  • f57a6de: [Security] implement stateless headers/cookies-based CSRF protection
  • c16abbf: [DependencyInjection] sort PassConfig:TYPE_* by order of execution
  • 25cd4e5: [Config] allow using defaultNull() on BooleanNodeDefinition
  • 196e429: [Lock] add NullStore
  • 5763273: [DoctrineBridge, Form] introducing new LazyChoiceLoader class and choice_lazy option for ChoiceType
  • 6e9c993: [Validator] pass context to expressions used in When constraints
  • d83167d: [WebProfilerBundle] render the toolbar stylesheet
  • 23c9d8c: [Form] use form.post_set_data in ResizeFormListener

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 5.10.3,
and 5.10.4
versions with the following changes:

  • Remove custom timeout for docker builtin (@tucksaun)
  • Fix bash side-effects from bash completions (@tucksaun)
  • Use correct URL for not latest release (@kevin-studer)
  • Remove unused code (@fabpot)
  • Only listen on 127.0.0.1 not all interfaces (@check24-danielpaschsannapiu)
  • Make Docker connection use Docker Desktop socket if available (@tucksaun)
  • Always log Docker connection error if --debug flag is set (@tucksaun)
  • Allow installer to install specific version (@kevin-studer)
  • Improve Docker Compose project name determination (@tucksaun)
  • Allow to define the IP on which server:start should listen to (@tucksaun)

SymfonyCasts Updates

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