Living on the edge

New in Symfony 3.2: Web Debug Toolbar and Profiler Improvements

The web debug toolbar and the profiler were improved in Symfony 3.2 to make them compatible with new technologies (CSP and window.fetch) and to make you more productive improving the way information is displayed.

New in Symfony 3.2: Runtime Environment Variables

In Symfony 3.2 we added full support for environment variables that are resolved during the application runtime.

New in Symfony 3.2: Filesystem improvements

In Symfony 3.2 we improved the Filesystem component to add two new functions: readlink(), to normalize the behavior of PHP on different operating systems, and hardlink() to create single or multiple hard links to files.

New in Symfony 3.2: YAML deprecations

Symfony 3.2 will introduce some minor YAML deprecations in order to make the Yaml component fully compliant with the YAML specification: white spaces are required after mapping keys and duplicated keys are no longer allowed.

New in Symfony 3.2: Improved private services

Symfony 3.2 has improved the behavior of private services to always work as you expect and prevent them from being accessible via the service container.

New in Symfony 3.2: Unicode routing support

In Symfony 3.2, the routing component has been improved to add support for UTF-8 characters and PCRE Unicode properties as part of the route paths and requirements.

New in Symfony 3.2: Added support for XPath expressions

Symfony 3.2 improved XPath integration by adding support to evaluate XPath expressions. This means that you can perform advanced preprocessing of the information obtained via XPath to simplify the code of your tests.

New in Symfony 3.2: Workflow component

In Symfony 3.2 we added a new Workflow component to help you define "workflows", which are elements that describe a sequence of operations that can be executed repeatedly to provide some service (e.g. buying a product in an e-commerce application), process some information (e.g. publishing some content in a CMS application), etc.

New in Symfony 3.2: HttpFoundation improvements

Symfony 3.2 added support for "same-site" cookie attribute, fixed some inconsistencies in cache-related HTTP headers and added a new method called isMethodIdempotent().

New in Symfony 3.2: User value resolver for controllers

In Symfony 3.2, we've added a new user resolver that allows to get the current user in any controller via type-hinting and we deprecated the Controller::getUser() shortcut, which will be removed in Symfony 4.0.