A Week of Symfony #611 (10-16 September 2018)

This week Symfony introduced Symfony Panther, a new browser testing and web scraping library for PHP. Meanwhile, the SymfonyCon Lisbon 2018 conference announced its full schedule: part 1, part 2 and part 3.

September 16, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

A Week of Symfony #610 (3-9 September 2018)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.2 version merged lots of new features in preparation for its "feature freeze" at the end of this month: a new intl formatter for the Translation component, SameSite cookie support, a new PDO-based lock store and the Messenger component was made final.

September 9, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

A week of Symfony #609 (27 August - 2 September 2018)

This week, Symfony 2.8.45, 3.4.15 and 4.1.4 maintenance versions were released. In addition, we improved performance of AbstractObjectNormalizer in the Serializer component and we improved RedisCluster performance in the Cache component. Finally, we added a new "auto" mode the for cookie_secure option and introduced a new VarExporter component.

September 2, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

A week of symfony #608 (20-26 August 2018)

This week, Symfony added support to autowire by type and parameter name. In addition, the schedule for the first day and second day of the SymfonyCon Lisbon 2018 conference was announced.

August 26, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

A week of symfony #607 (13-19 August 2018)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.2 version added a new DivisibleBy constraint and enabled logger autoconfiguration. Meanwhile, the SymfonyLive USA conference was rebranded as Symfony Loves PHP USA Conference and announced its full schedule.

August 19, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

A week of symfony #606 (6-12 August 2018)

This week Symfony fixed some circular reference issues and improved the performance of the lint:xliff command. In addition, the Symfony and Twig certifications announced a special offer to get you certified with a 40% discount.

August 12, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

A week of symfony #605 (30 July - 5 August 2018)

This week Symfony published 2.7.49, 2.8.44, 3.3.18, 3.4.14, 4.0.14 and 4.1.3 security releases to fix two security vulnerabilities related to HTTP headers.

August 5, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

A week of symfony #604 (23-29 July 2018)

This week Symfony 2.8.43, 3.4.13, 4.0.13, and 4.1.2 maintenance versions were released. 4.0.13 was the last version of the 4.0 branch which will keep receiving security fixes until January 2019.

July 29, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

A week of symfony #603 (16-22 July 2018)

This week, Finder component added support for arrays as arguments of some methods for better code readability and the Twig profiler panel was improved to show the real file path of templates. In addition, the schedule of SymfonyLive London 2018 and the Call for Papers for SymfonyLive Berlin 2018 were published and a new initiative was created to organize a group trip to SymfonyCon Lisbon 2018.

July 22, 2018 Javier Eguiluz

A week of symfony #602 (9-15 July 2018)

This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.2 version added a config option to enable the UTF8 mode in routes and improved the Cache component to allow using PDO databases. Meanwhile, form profiling was optimized to reduce its memory footprint and Symfony Contracts were created as a set of abstractions extracted out of the Symfony components.

July 15, 2018 Javier Eguiluz