Symfony News

A week of symfony #429 (16-22 March 2015)

This week Symfony released two new maintenance versions: 2.3.26 and 2.6.5. Meanwhile, Symfony 2.7 added a new command to encode passwords, added support for amqp in VarDumper component and improved ACL. Lastly, two new developers were appointed as Symfony Core members: Abdellatif AitBoudad and Christian Flothmann.

Symfony2 development highlights

2.3 changelog:

• b8d42b3: [DependencyInjection] added tests for ResolveParameterPlaceHoldersPass
• 22f5a73: [Translation] fixed load empty translation
• ce2764d: [DependencyInjection] prioritize container parameters defined by users
• 529d99c: [Doctrine Bridge] fixed MongoODM entity loader and improved loading behavior of entities and documents by reusing entity loader
• 4abfabf: performed a static code analyssis of Symfony components to improve their code

2.6 changelog:

• 500df47: [Serializer] fixed object normalization exceptions
• 8bda37c: [DependencyInjection] resolved class parameters in service factories
• 663ae9f: [DependencyInjection] do not inline service factories
• e504ebe: [ExpressionLanguage] fixed issues when parsing postfix expressions (foo."#", foo."bar", foo.**, foo.123)
• 3d6933f: [HttpKernel] defiend the default params for http_build_query function in UriSigner::buildUrl
• cbd89f5, a8c4da1: [WebProfilerBundle] fixed javascript toolbar on IE8

2.7 changelog:

• a7bd0fc: [SecurityBundle] added a command to encode a password
• 5999964: [VarDumper] added catch-all-objects hook for casters
• 83b56f6: [FrameworkBundle] added serializer groups support
• 5fa063e: [VarDumper] added support for amqp
• 9dcae6b: [Security] fixed Base ACL exceptions on the RuntimeException
• a3dc823: [Security] improved MaskBuilder and PermissionMap

Newest issues and pull requests

• [RFC] Create an official ruleset of Symfony2 codestyle for PHP_CodeSniffer
• Require PHPUnit as a dev dependency
• [Session] decrease gc probability
• Circular reference exception thrown instead of FileLoaderException
• Yaml parser: if the first line starts with spaces, parsing fails
• [DX][Security] Check for server PHP_AUTH_USER
• [DX] Improve error message when security.yml is incomplete

They talked about us

• Symfony CMF News March 2015
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• Symfony2 components overview: Stopwatch
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• Symfony CDN Integration
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• What do eZ Publish CMS, Symfony PHP framework, and Sylius e-commerce have in common?
• Symfony2 – Injecting Environment or Context into Twig Extensions
• ¿Por qué decidimos abandonar nuestro framework y pasarnos a Symfony?
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• Mises à jour des frameworks Symfony2
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