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A Week of Symfony #753 (31 May - 6 June 2021)

This week, Symfony 5.3.0 version was released, followed by a 5.3.1 patch release to fix the first reported issues. Meanwhile, Symfony 4.4.25 and 5.2.10 maintenance versions were published. Finally, Symfony announced a 30% off summer sale on all certifications and most Symfony Store items for the next two weeks.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 54 pull requests were merged (40 in code and 14 in docs) and 61 issues were closed (52 in code and 9 in docs). Excluding merges, 31 authors made 20,914 additions and 8,235 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

• b439213: [HttpFoundation] add ReturnTypeWillChange to SessionHandlers
• f143c8f: [Form] document null support in NumberToLocalizedStringTransformer
• d7524e6: [Console] escape synopsis output
• 3524cf2: [Serializer] do not allow to denormalize string with spaces only to valid a DateTime object
• 6eead34: [Security] fix opcache preload with alias classes

5.2 changelog:

• 1ec9a83: [SecurityBundle] link UserProviderListener to correct firewall dispatcher
• 26a6468: [FrameworkBundle] fix KernelBrowser::loginUser with a stateless firewall
• c2f4492: [DependencyInjection] update loader’s directory when calling ContainerConfigurator::withPath
• 6eead34: [Security] fix opcache preload with alias classes

5.3 changelog:

• a7049f7: [Translation] remove PoEditor Provider
• 852cc29: [FrameworkBundle] remove redundant cache service
• 16c382a: [FrameworkBundle] fix creating ContainerBuilder at warmup/CLI time
• e008263: [FrameworkBundle] fix ConfigBuilderCacheWarmer
• 4500326: [HttpKernel] fix ArgumentMetadataFactory messes up controller arguments with attributes
• e6510a0: [Security] readd deprecated methods to the interfaces
• f8e021a: [Serializer, Validator] fix not null return from getCollectionValueTypes
• 198448e: relax requirement on symfony/runtime
• 5c2604a: [Validator] remove service if its class doesn't exist
• a02ac15: [Console] fix negated options not accessible

5.4 changelog:

• e2d1cb1: [HttpKernel] fix sessionListener when factory is injected without session
• 2fe4442: [Yaml] leverage array_is_list()

6.0 changelog:

• 17800d1: [HttpFoundation] remove unused code for emulating SameSite cookie
• fc37d3c: [Validator] rfc37d3cad5b37a8fb8a1a94d08380f1867a61f78emove deprecated code
• 51199a4: [Lock, Semaphore] add union types
• 1a01afb: [Messenger] add union types
• 7ce410e: [Validator] add union types
• bf7201e: [WebLink] add missing types

Newest issues and pull requests

• RateLimiterFactory is not extendable by others
• [Cache] Add dynamodb cache adapter
• [Form] Add 'error_html' option
• [Meta] Introduce an abstraction for PHP I/O function calls
• [Meta] PHP 8.1 Support

They talked about us

• Real World Benchmark PHP Routing
• How to Refactor Custom Doctrine Annotations to Attributes
• Les bonnes raisons de mettre à jour vers Symfony 5.3!
• Librarie Open Source : YokaiEnumBundle
• Symfony Messenger: объединение сообщений в пакеты

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