Symfony News: A week of symfony #435 (27 April

A week of symfony #435 (27 April - 3 May 2015)

This week, symfony.com website enabled HTTPS support and the Symfony project started migrating URLs to https wherever is possible (documentation, component repositories, etc.) Meanwhile Symfony 2.7 continued polishing its new features and fixing bugs before its publication at the end of the month.

Symfony2 development highlights

2.3 changelog:

3bfbf45: [DependencyInjection] removed extra strtolower calls
01b2d8e: [Validator] fixed Choice when an empty array is used in the "choices" option
7f24883: show a better error when the port is in use
79e005b: [SecurityBundle] check authenticated user by tokenClass instead of username
6038b75: [HttpFoundation] allow curly braces in trusted host patterns
bf8a1ce, 5402035: link to https://symfony.com where possible
5dd52c3: [FrameworkBundle] added missing log in server:run command

2.6 changelog:

7c53373: [DependencyInjection] resolved circular reference
4d2f044: [TwigBundle] fixed deprecated use of FlattenException
876b180: [WebProfiler] fixed html syntax for input types
13ae7fa: [Debug] added BaseException compatibility for PHP7
7632d27: [Finder] only use GLOB_BRACE when available
d5cc056: do not override PHP constants, only use when available

2.7 changelog:

a1f7fb3: [Serializer] supported hassers and setters for groups annotation
f85ba5d: [FrameworkBundle] skip translation cache warm up when cache is not used
454ef8c: [Serializer] fixed a bug when using groups together with a name converter
6970469: [FrameworkBundle] updated output for translation:debug command
501df8d: [Filesystem] deprecated chmod support in dumpFile()
3a404f8: [Yaml] matched signature of Yaml::parse() with Parser->parse()
af54bda: [VarDumper] fixed a bug that prevented to open tree recursively on OSX
f5f3bba: [WebProfilerBundle] determine the state of the Symfony version statically instead of making network connections