Symfony News: A Week of Symfony #653 (1-7 July 2019)

A Week of Symfony #653 (1-7 July 2019)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.4 version improved the Length validation constraint to allow rejecting empty strings, the HttpClient component added support for NTLM authentication and the Panther component was updated to allow using the new BrowserKit assertions. Meanwhile, the SymfonyCon 2019 conference announced the first part of its schedule.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 93 pull requests were merged (70 in code and 23 in docs) and 39 issues were closed (19 in code and 20 in docs). Excluding merges, 36 authors made 1,497 additions and 567 deletions. See details for code and docs.

3.4 changelog:

db05791: [DependencyInjection] fixed processing of regular parameter bags by MergeExtensionConfigurationPass
a383649: [FrameworkBundle] reset cache pools between requests
7f43681: [SecurityBundle] conditionally register services

4.2 changelog:

26048bc: [FrameworkBundle] unconditionally register the DateIntervalNormalizer
c33c396: [Lock] stores must implement putOffExpiration
8e07e77: [Messenger] don't pass objects as class name to ContainerBuilder::register

4.3 changelog:

b7a75e4: [Workflow] only decorate when an event dispatcher was passed
51f01bd: [FrameworkBundle] deprecated the framework.templating option
74bd8b6: [FrameworkBundle] fixing validation for messenger transports retry_strategy service key
09e762e: [Messenger] fixed authentication for redis transport
c799fc8: [Messenger] fixed broken key normalization

4.4 changelog:

7bd0a27: [Messenger] added support for auto trimming of redis streams
70318b4: [HttpFoundation] drop support for ApacheRequest
802dc1b: [Filesystem] deprecated calling isAbsolutePath with a null
7b9c026: [Mailer] overwrite envelope sender and recipients from config
ea0656a: [HttpKernel] improved the error message when not defining the controller as a service but using construct parameters
4e32643: [Validator] added a Length::$allowEmptyString option to reject empty strings
6abaa8c: [Validator] deprecated non-string constraint violation codes
df13b50: [HttpClient] added support for NTLM authentication
2452ef8: [PropertyInfo] added static cache to ContextFactory
9b4f801: [FrameworkBundle] allow to use the BrowserKit assertions with Panther and API Platform's test client
b7c9fcf: [HttpFoundation] accept must take the lead for Request::getPreferredFormat()
e3927b6: [Messenger] use ConnectionRegistry instead of RegistryInterface
0151279: [ErrorCatcher] pretty print JSON formatted errors
08aa16f: [ErrorCatcher] fixed some escaping in error renderers
a672bbc: [FrameworkBundle] allow creating chained cache pools by providing several adapters
b515107: [FrameworkBundle] use default_locale as default value for translator.fallbacks
42899cd: [FrameworkBundle] add autowiring alias for PSR-14