This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version improved the AsAlias attribute by adding a new argument, introduced Clock support for UriSigner, and refined the return type of the ContainerInterface::get() method. In addition, we published the replay of the SymfonyLive Paris 2025 conference.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 26 pull requests were merged (16 in code and 10 in docs) and 16 issues were closed (9 in code and 7 in docs). Excluding merges, 17 authors made 17,934 additions and 7,547 deletions. See details for code and docs.

6.4 changelog:

• ddc2787: [Workflow] fix dispatch of entered event when the subject is already in this marking
• 330e167: [String] ignore the current locale before transliterating ASCII codes with iconv()

7.2 changelog:

• fd0d3c0: [Emoji] update the list of emojis to the latest version for Gitlab
• c95fe4a: [Lock] read (possible) error from Redis instance where evalSha() was called

7.3 changelog:

• f2357a0: [Workflow] deprecate Event::getWorkflow() method
• d5b5581: [DependencyInjection] add 'when' argument to #[AsAlias]
• 01c26aa: [TwigBridge] allow attachment name to be set for inline images
• 1d7c9ec: [Uid] add component-specific exception classes
• 904df78: [FrameworkBundle, HttpFoundation] add Clock support for UriSigner
• f30cc7b: [DependencyInjection] add better return type on ContainerInterface::get()
• eb71515: [HttpFoundation] add UriSigner::verify() that throws named exceptions

Newest issues and pull requests

• [Form] Add FormFlow component for multistep forms management
• [Security] default authenticatorName for programmatic login
• [RFC] Add a ValidationException
• Add PHP config support for routing
• [HttpClient] Improve memory consumption
• Don't enable tracing unless the profiler is instantiated

Symfony Jobs

These are some of the most recent Symfony job offers:

• Lead Symfony Developer at Vacatia
  Full-time - $150,000 – $180,000 / year
  Remote + part-time onsite (Portland, Oregon, United States)
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• Backend Symfony Developer at Polavis
  Contract / Freelance - €30 – €45 / hour
  Full remote
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• Backend Symfony Developer at Cobbleweb
  Full-time - €40,000 – €75,000 / year
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