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Symfony 2.8.5 released

Symfony 2.8.5 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:

• bug #18180 [Form] fixed BC break with pre selection of choices with ChoiceType and its children (HeahDude)
• bug #18645 [Console] Fix wrong exceptions being thrown (JhonnyL)
• bug #18562 [WebProfilerBunde] Give an absolute url in case the request occured from another domain (romainneutron)
• bug #18600 [DI] Fix AutowirePass fatal error with classes that have non-existing parents (hason, nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18603 [PropertyAccess] ->getValue() should be read-only (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18593 [VarDumper] Fix dumping type hints for non-existing parent classes (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18596 [DI] Fix internal caching in AutowirePass (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18581 [Console] [TableHelper] make it work with SymfonyStyle. (aitboudad)
• bug #18280 [Routing] add query param if value is different from default (Tobion)
• bug #18540 Replace iconv_*() uses by mb_*(), add mbstring polyfill when required (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18496 [Console] use ANSI escape sequences in ProgressBar overwrite method (alekitto)
• bug #18490 [LDAP] Free the search result after a search to free memory (hiddewie)
• bug #18491 [DependencyInjection] anonymous services are always private (xabbuh)
• bug #18515 [Filesystem] Better error handling in remove() (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18360 [PropertyInfo] Extract nullable and collection key type for Doctrine associations (teohhanhui)
• bug #18449 [PropertyAccess] Fix regression (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18429 [Console] Correct time formatting. (camporter)
• bug #18457 [WebProfilerBundle] Fixed error from unset twig variable (simonsargeant)
• bug #18467 [DependencyInjection] Resolve aliases before removing abstract services + add tests (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18469 Force profiler toolbar svg display (pyrech)
• bug #18460 [DomCrawler] Fix select option with empty value (Matt Wells)
• bug #18425 [Security] Fixed SwitchUserListener when exiting an impersonation with AnonymousToken (lyrixx)
• bug #18317 [Form] fix "prototype" not required when parent form is not required (HeahDude)
• bug #18439 [Logging] Add support for Firefox (43+) in ChromePhpHandler (arjenm)
• bug #18385 Detect CLI color support for Windows 10 build 10586 (mlocati)
• bug #18426 [EventDispatcher] Try first if the event is Stopped (lyrixx)
• bug #18407 Fixed the "hover" state of the profiler sidebar menu (javiereguiluz)
• bug #18394 [FrameworkBundle] Return the invokable service if its name is the class name (dunglas)
• bug #18347 Fixed the styles of the Symfony icon in the web debug toolbar (javiereguiluz)
• bug #18265 Optimize ReplaceAliasByActualDefinitionPass (ajb-in)
• bug #18349 [Process] Fix stream_select priority when writing to stdin (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18358 [Form] NumberToLocalizedStringTransformer should return floats when possible (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #17926 [DependencyInjection] Enable alias for service_container (hason)
• bug #18352 [Debug] Fix case sensitivity checks (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18336 [Debug] Fix handling of php7 throwables (nicolas-grekas)
• bug #18354 [FrameworkBundle][TwigBridge] fix high deps tests (xabbuh)
• bug #18312 [ClassLoader] Fix storing not-found classes in APC cache (nicolas-grekas)

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