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A Week of Symfony #724 (9-15 November 2020)

This week, the first release candidate version of Symfony 5.2 was released. In addition, the SymfonyWorld 2020 online conference published its entire agenda.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 32 pull requests were merged (21 in code and 11 in docs) and 24 issues were closed (24 in code and 0 in docs). See details for code and docs.

3.4 changelog:

• 6724ca7: [DoctrineBridge] indexBy could reference to association columns

4.4 changelog:

• 46410f8: [Ldap] fix pagination
• 0ae674a: [DependencyInjection] optimize circular collection by removing flattening
• 17a2231: [Filesystem] fixed cleaning up tmp files when dumpFile() fails
• 4bb1229: [MimeType] added missing alias for service @mime_type
• faead95: [DependencyInjection] fixed circular detection with multiple paths
• 038497c: [Cache] added tests on CacheDataCollector
• 3834d76: [DependencyInjection] autoconfigure behavior describing tags on decorators
• c72f853: [Validator] prevent hash collisions caused by reused object hashes

5.1 changelog:

• 01a865f: [FrameworkBundle, Notifier] fixed Firebase transport factory DI tag type

5.x changelog:

• c721e02: [Messenger] fixed JSON deserialization of ErrorDetailsStamp and normalization of FlattenException::$statusText
• 7e3855d: [Intl] deprecated polyfills in favor of symfony/polyfill-intl-icu
• 1d945b9: [Messenger, SQS] made sure one can enable debug logs
• 16fb94b: [BrowserKit] added jsonRequest function to the browser-kit client

Symfony CLI

Symfony CLI is a must-have tool when developing Symfony applications on your local machine. It includes the Symfony Local Server, the best way to run local Symfony applications. This week Symfony CLI released its new 4.20.2 and 4.20.3 versions with the following changes:

• Improve performance of the project:create command
• Respect the --no-interaction flag for self:update command
• Add missing URL environment variable for Elasticsearch relationships
• Fix wrong SCHEME environment variable for Elasticsearch service in Docker integration
• Fix the debug toolbar is missing Local Web Server information on Symfony 5.2 and more
• Fix env:settings table should not wrap
• Add CA support for SLES, OpenSUSE, Firefox/Chromium nightly/developer
• Add better sudo prompt for server:ca:install
• Speed-up server:ca:install
• Fix server:start consumes Symfony's debug toolbar start markup
• Fix var:set might hang waiting for activity completion
• Fix project:create might hang forever

Newest issues and pull requests

• [Serializer] Add a way to provide a context in mapping
• Allow specifying the location of auto-generated preload file

They talked about us

• Creating Symfony services using the factory pattern
• Nullable Embeddable with Symfony and Doctrine ORM
• Add service layer to Doctrine ORM
• The singleton pattern in Symfony PHP Framework
• Symfony 5.2 & PHP 8 sous Docker en 5 minutes
• SymfonyWorld 2020: zapowiedź

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