Symfony News: A Week of Symfony #657 (29 July

A Week of Symfony #657 (29 July - 4 August 2019)

This week, Symfony development activity focused on adding support for the upcoming PHP 7.4 and 8.0 versions. In addition, lots of tests were updated to add support for PHPUnit 8.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 113 pull requests were merged (79 in code and 34 in docs) and 55 issues were closed (43 in code and 12 in docs). Excluding merges, 43 authors made 6,925 additions and 7,697 deletions. See details for code and docs.

3.4 changelog:

de490b4: [HttpKernel] do not stopwatch sections when profiler is disabled
6763172: [DependencyInjection] fixed dumping Doctrine-like service graphs
5c67a67: [Config] don't add object-value of static properties in the signature of container metadata-cache
3f43186: [Console] fixed a warning on PHP 7.4
b706372: [Cache] fixed warnings on PHP 7.4
1143b02: [HttpFoundation] fixed getMaxFilesize
f1cb4b5: [Yaml] fixed comments in multi line value
bcfc7a4: [Form] updated type of form $name arguments
5fa9ed4: made tests support phpunit 8
1ad2682: [PhpUnitBridge] fixed assertInternalType deprecation
82aace3: [PhpUnit Bridge] added polyfill for TestCase::createMock()
6d49913: replaced calls to setExpectedException by Pollyfill in all tests
8173daf: [PhpUnitBridge] removed @expectedException annotation
6604a3e: [PhpUnitBridge] removed deprecated methods assertArraySubset
9188261: [Yaml] fixed a PHP 8 uncaught TypeError in abs() method

4.3 changelog:

85827f3: [FrameworkBundle] recompiled container when translations directory changes
7942082: [DependencyInjection] fixed bindings and tagged_locator
9ac3552: [HttpClient] Preserve the case of headers when sending them
0ebf7ee: Ensure signatures for setUp|tearDown|setUpAfterClass|tearDownAfterClass methods in tests are compatible with phpunit 8.2
8e3161b: [Mailer] changed the order of authenticators
e248345: [Mailer] fixed error not being thrown properly
0470ac3: [Mailer] fixed wrong error message when connection closes unexpectedly
7479543: [Yaml] added flag to dump NULL as ~
35bf2fa: [FrameworkBundle] added config for translator cache_dir
1ce83da: [Mime] added AbstractPart::asDebugString()
37265de: [Mailer] added a name to the transports

4.4 changelog:

bd45789: [Form] derive default timezone from reference_date option when possible
92ceb80: [Security] use right arguments count in Ldap security factories
f4ceb91: [Security] revise UserPasswordEncoderInterface::needsRehash()
537114d: [ErrorHandler] relaxed transition to the new Debug class
85058f5: [DependencyInjection] allowed dumping the container in one file instead of many files
861f792: [ErrorRenderer] added DebugCommand for easy debugging and testing
bb74384: [DoctrineBridge] deprecated RegistryInterface
253d6f5: [PhpUnitBridge] polyfill the method createPartialMock
eefcb33: [Mailer] added debug info to TransportExceptionInterface
b3cf2d4: [PhpUnitBridge] added polyfill for methods assertNan, assertFinite and assertInfinite
d01ec68: [PhpUnitBridge] added polyfill for assertStringContainsString*()
5d5e04b: [PhpUnitBridge] added more assert*() polyfills
f1801a4: [Mailer] added debug info on HTTP transport exceptions