Symfony News

A week of symfony #461 (26 October - 1 November 2015)

This week, Symfony 2.3.34 and 2.7.6 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the Symfony Live San Francisco conference took place with great success. Lastly, the SymfonyCon Paris 2015 conference announced a new track to its schedule, giving you more reasons to attend the biggest event in Symfony's history.

Symfony2 development highlights

2.3 changelog:

• 0d14064: [Security] don't allow to install the split Security packages
• e6c89f1: use mb_detect_encoding with $strict = true
• 3490e98: [DoctrineBridge] fixed issue which prevented the profiler to explain a query
• 65bef75: added the new Composer exclude-from-classmap option
• 284dc75: [PropertyAccess] major performance improvement

2.8 changelog:

• e871db7: [Form] updated Doctrine type guessers to use FQCNs for guessed types
• 303f05b: rely on iconv and symfony/polyfill-*
• 4bffacc: [WebProfilerBundle] filter links in search results
• 14acadd: [Security] checkCredentials() force it to be an affirmative yes

Master changelog:

• 78512cc: removed polyfills for unsupported php versions
• 87d5589: [Serializer] removed deprecated method in JsonEncoder
• cd62d17: [Security] removed deprecated SrtingUtils class
• cd6351f: fixed Twig deprecation notices
• 5d4b5b4: [Templating] remove deprecated method in PhpEngine

Newest issues and pull requests

• Too many routes error
• Output of debug:container --parameter=[..] is truncated
• [Stopwatch] Different behaviour if grouped with other tests

Twig development highlights

Master changelog:

• 847d48e: deprecated Twig_ExtensionInterface::initRuntime() to allow splitting Twig extensions into two different phases: compilation and runtime. Ultimately this allow us to lazy-load Twig extensions
• 72485c2: deprecated the possibility to override an extension by registering another one with the same name
• e3a325f: deprecated Twig_ExtensionInterface::getGlobals()

They talked about us

• PHP 7 Compatibility through Symfony Polyfill, not transpiling
• Symfony CMF vs WordPress CMS
• Migrating to Symfony 3.0
• Symfony and Search: Lucene, Solr and Elasticsearch
• Translation goodness with symfony2
• See you at these upcoming PHP conferences
• Exportar a Excel con Symfony2
• PHP 7 est à la hauteur de ce que j'attendais