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A Week of Symfony #683 (27 January - 2 February 2020)

This week, Symfony published the 4.3.11, 4.4.4 and 5.0.4 maintenance versions. The 4.3 branch published its last version, so you should consider updating to 4.4. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 5.1 version improved CssSelector performance, added LRU and max-lifetime features to ArrayCache and introduced tag/metadata support in the Mailer component.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 59 pull requests were merged (43 in code and 16 in docs) and 59 issues were closed (54 in code and 5 in docs). Excluding merges, 40 authors made 10,929 additions and 3,702 deletions. See details for code and docs.

3.4 changelog:

• b90664b: [Security] improved error message when no supported user provider is found
• e50db1f: [HttpKernel] fixed stale-if-error behavior
• aeea451: [Validator] fixed access to uninitialized property when getting value

4.3 changelog:

• 86ccf32, c966016: [Cache, Lock] don't allow mysqli to be used as it doesn't work
• 14c3555: [Messenger] check for all serialization exceptions during message decoding
• 46e8da3: [PhpUnitBridge] properly handle phpunit arguments for configuration file
• aeea451: [Validator] fixed access to uninitialized property when getting value
• e39d66e: [HttpClient] Fix regex for bearer auth

4.4 changelog:

• 8773ccf: [DependencyInjection] CheckTypeDeclarationsPass now checks if value is type of parameter type
• 592a31a: [SecurityBundle] fixed ldap_bind service arguments
• c573787: [Messenger] fixed bug when using single route with XML config
• 6b0103e: [Mailer] fixed STARTTLS support for Postmark and Mandrill
• 29badef: [Mailer] added tests for http transports
• 9803f3e: [Intl] provide more locale translations
• 55df55e: [Translator] default value for 'sort' option in translation:update should be 'asc'

5.0 changelog:

• c956d62: [ErrorHandler] added debug argument to decide whether debug page is shown or not

Master changelog:

• af295b5: improved displaying anonymous classes
• 5182135: [Console] set Command::setHidden() final for adding default param in Symfony 6.0
• b22a584: [Cache] added LRU + max-lifetime capabilities to ArrayCache
• 1cfadb4: [CssSelector] added cache on top of CssSelectorConverter
• 3945a5c: [Messenger] moved Transports to separate packages
• f0fbdee: [Mailer] read default timeout from ini configurations
• f0748f8: [Mailer] added ability to disable the TLS peer verification via DSN
• 8769c7a: [Messenger] added TLS option to Redis transport's DSN
• 5b38f70: [Console] added constants for main exit codes
• 7ecb5aa: [PHPUnitBridge] improved deprecations display
• 8b337fc: [Dotenv] added Dotenv::bootEnv() to check for .env.local.php before calling Dotenv::loadEnv()
• 75fc3fa: [String] made AbstractString::width() follow POSIX.1-2001
• fbc3dc8: [Mailer] made default factories public
• a916c61: [Notifier] fixed infinite loop on round robin transport
• ee9aacd: [DependencyInjection, Routing] added wither to configure the path of PHP-DSL configurators
• a2b6085: [HttpFoundation] added withers to Cookie class
• 81abb4e: [Mailer] added tag/metadata support
• 94efc95: [FrameworkBundle] return non-zero exit code on failure in TranslationDebug
• 1bb485b: [Validator] added alpha3 option to country constraint
• 09bdaf5: [Mailer] randomize the first transport used by the RoundRobin transport
• a1e4222: [PropertyInfo] added accessor and mutator extractor interface and implementation on reflection

Symfony Local Server

Symfony Local Server, the best way to run Symfony applications on your local machine, released its new 4.12.5, 4.12.6, 4.12.7 and 4.12.8 versions with the following changes:

• Refactor the PHP web server to have a more consistent experience across all SAPIs
• Display project status in projects and project:info commands output
• Force domains to be treated lowercase
• Fix running symfony new on Windows when Composer is already installed
• Fix php, php-config, and phpize paths used by pecl
• Add support for phpize
• Fix support for phpdbg and php-config
• Only use locally downloaded composer.phar as a permanent fallback
• Load php.ini, extra env vars, and PHP settings from .symfony.cloud.yaml in the same between the PHP server and symfony php
• Reload PHP versions when PHP is not found anymore in the cached stored version
• Fix various panics

Newest issues and pull requests

• Allow to set process priority
• [Mailer] SMTP transport creates too many NOOP commands
• [Finder] fully or partly integrate symplify/smart-file-system
• [Mailer] Support OAuth2 for gmail properly
• [Messenger][RFC] Kafka transport
• [DependencyInjection] ContainerConfigurator vs ContainerBuilder

They talked about us

• Docker Desktop 2.2, WSL 2, Drupal 8, and Symfony Performance

Upcoming Symfony Events

• Treffen der Symfony User Group Hamburg: Hamburg, Germany (February 4)
• Symfony User Group Osnabrück: Osnabrück, Germany (March 12)

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