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A Week of Symfony #759 (12-18 July 2021)

This week, Symfony development activity focused on adding more types to private properties of all components in the upcoming 6.0 version. Meanwhile, Symfony 5.4 introduced a change to better differentiate between system and app cache directories.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 92 pull requests were merged (68 in code and 24 in docs) and 35 issues were closed (20 in code and 15 in docs). See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

• 7253299: [DoctrineBridge] fix setting default mapping type to attribute/annotation on php 8/7 respectively
• 19fdcba: fix ctype_digit deprecation
• 5e80445: [Translation] add a Special Case for Translating Choices in en_US_POSIX
• e5c96c4: [Cache] support decorated Dbal drivers in PdoAdapter
• b1fbd1b: [VarDumper] support for intersection types
• 6c8114a: [HttpFoundation] fix return types of SessionHandler::gc()
• c9e4c33: [DependencyInjection] support for intersection types
• 6b2b7b9: [PhpUnitBridge] fix Composer resolution on Windows
• 6cd50ad: [HttpFoundation] fix FileBag under PHP 8.1
• fa40523, fa40523, a0496bd, 02c30ea: minor code improvements

5.2 changelog:

• d432821: [Messenger] clarify RedisStore::evaluate()
• da1a33e: [FrameworkBundle] make AbstractDataCollector extend DataCollector to reduce boilerplate
• 6c26499: [Messenger] make Redis auth option works

5.3 changelog:

• 04bee3e: [TwigBridge] skip Bootstrap 4 tests that do not apply to the Bootstrap 5 form theme
• 643e29a: [Security] fix save hashed tokenValue in RememberMe cookie

5.4 changelog:

• 1c6a2f0: [FrameworkBundle] distinguish system and app cache dirs
• b5d4b33: [Notifier] include additional errors to Slack notifier error message
• 5d92b21: [Notifier] throw error if maximum block limit is reached for Slack message options
• 5ebb1fe: [ExpressionLanguage] store compiler and evaluator as closures

6.0 changelog:

• b28f7e7: [Contracts] add return types and bump to v3
• 77d0f85: [Uid] Add types to private properties
• 6d4444c: [WebLink] Add types to private properties
• 5ab8ea3: [String] Add types to private properties
• 379b009: [Yaml] Add types to private properties
• d6b4e1c: [ProxyManagerBridge] Add types to private properties
• 71b90db: [ExpressionLanguage] Add types to private properties
• 097d595: [RateLimiter] Add types to private properties
• 7ec41bb: [Templating] Add types to private properties
• c2aeec2: [Security] Add types to private properties
• 357791c: [Validator] Add types to private properties
• 01fbab7: [Yaml] remove compat code for MB function overloading
• 10542af: [FrameworkBundle] remove deprecated options in translation:update command
• f76f4ed: [Security] remove CSRF deprecations

Newest issues and pull requests

• [Security] Use default password hasher by default
• [Form] deprecate translation_parameters options given TranslatableMessage
• [Mailer] Simplify getting SentMessage information after send
• [Security] Decouple CSRF component from security-core
• [WebProfilerBundle] Ability to view all logs together

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