A Week of Symfony #798 (11-17 April 2022)

This week, the first beta of Symfony 6.1 was released in preparation for its final release in 6 weeks. Meanwhile, we published some blog posts about new Symfony 6.1 features, such as improved ExpressionLanguage syntax and the Locale Switcher. Lastly, the SymfonyWorld Online conference (June 16-17, 2022) announced its first speakers.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 52 pull requests were merged (45 in code and 7 in docs) and 43 issues were closed (41 in code and 2 in docs). Excluding merges, 29 authors made 623,463 additions and 501,430 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

2607b66: [DependencyInjection] add TaggedIteratorArgument unit tests 65d19bd: [HttpClient] fix sending content-length when streaming the body 6af4986: [Mailer] Return-Path has higher priority for envelope address than From address 6d0d2f5: [Cache] make LockRegistry use static properties instead of static variables 63de80b: [FrameworkBundle] fix env resolution in lock configuration 76f6d74: [HttpKernel] fix Symfony not working on SMB share 639b74d: [Form] use reference date in reverse transform a90648c: [Workflow] catch error when trying to get an uninitialized marking 961e4d0: [Finder] add support of no-capture regex modifier in MultiplePcreFilterIterator

5.4 changelog:

6d0d2f5: [Cache] make LockRegistry use static properties instead of static variables 23338d0: [Messenger] DoctrineTransportFactory works with notify and decorated PostgreSQL driver e7fcd9a: [Translation] allow usage of Provider domains if possible 1f15392: [HttpKernel] use the existing session id if available 3ed91c4: [Security] fix UserNotFoundException is not thrown 213381e: [SecurityBundle] use config's secret in remember-me signatures

6.1 changelog:

8b680f0: [Messenger] consume a PSR-14 dispatcher for dispatching events 98dc2ec: [FrameworkBundle] add support to set BinaryFileResponse::trustXSendfileTypeHeader over config 9cbc853: [Routing] add EnumRequirement to help generate route requirements from a \BackedEnum ce3564b: [FrameworkBundle] add semaphore configuration 6299015: [Validator] improve FileValidator sizes factorization edge case e1d46c9: [Messenger] leverage nullsafe operator in worker 7751cd3: [FrameworkBundle] add support for first-class callable route controller in MicroKernelTrait efc974d: [Cache, String] don't use is_iterable() in perf-critical code paths a541f15: [Routing] allow using services in the route condition ea96c13: [HtmlSanitizer] add HtmlSanitizerConfig::withMaxInputLength() 22a1efd: [TwigBundle] deprecate option "autoescape", use "autoescape_service[_method]" instead

Newest issues and pull requests

[Security] Add an easier way to get the current firewall name Access Session from the KernelBrowser Add support for Gmail sending through the API

Symfony CLI

Symfony CLI is a must-have tool when developing Symfony applications on your local machine. It includes the Symfony Local Server, the best way to run local Symfony applications. This week Symfony CLI released its new 5.4.6 and 5.4.7 versions with the following changes:

Update supported Platform.sh services Switch to local security checker v2 Add --disable-exit-code to check:security Remove usage of flex.symfony.com

SymfonyCasts Updates

SymfonyCasts is the official way to learn Symfony. Select a track for a guided path through 100+ video tutorial courses about Symfony, PHP and JavaScript.

These were some of the most relevant SymfonyCasts updates of the week:

(Video) Symfony 6 course, Chapter 18: Installing 3rd Party Code into our JS/CSS (Video) Symfony 6 course, Chapter 19: Stimulus: Sensible, Beautiful JavaScript (Video) Symfony 6 course, Chapter 20: Real-World Stimulus Example (Video) Symfony 6 course, Chapter 21: Turbo: Supercharge you App

They talked about us

Building Decentralized Web Apps with Solid and PHP Symfony 6.1, routing and PHP 8.1 Enums Symfony Station Communiqué - 15 April 2022 Symfony Unit Testing SymfonyLive Paris 2022 – En chair et en os

Call to Action

Follow Symfony on Twitter and retweet this article. Subscribe to the Symfony blog RSS and never miss a Symfony story again.

                Sponsor the Symfony project.

https://symfony.com/blog/a-week-of-symfony-798-11-17-april-2022?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

Created 3y | Apr 17, 2022, 9:20:08 AM


Login to add comment

Other posts in this group

A Week of Symfony #973 (August 18–24, 2025)

This week, Symfony development focused on improving the IsGranted attribute with a new option, updated the Route attribute to allow setting multiple environments, improved the DomCrawler component to

Aug 24, 2025, 9:40:28 AM | Symfony
A Week of Symfony #972 (August 11–17, 2025)

This week, development activity mostly focused on dealing with the deprecation of sleep/wakeup methods in PHP 8.5 and their replacement by serialize/unserialize methods. In addition, we published more

Aug 17, 2025, 8:30:06 AM | Symfony
Let’s build the Symfony AI ecosystem together

It’s been only in July that we published symfony/ai and kicked off our AI initiative, but the repository has been busy since day one. Over 500 stars, more than 200 pull requests & issues, trending

Aug 16, 2025, 9:30:03 AM | Symfony
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025:   Unconference Track at SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025

🎤 Take the stage at SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025, on your own terms!

The Unconference track is back and more dynamic than ever!

This unique, participant-driven format invites attendees to shape

Aug 12, 2025, 12:40:20 PM | Symfony
A Week of Symfony #971 (August 4–10, 2025)

This week, Symfony completed the migration to PHPUnit 12 in the 7.4 branch, which required many changes during the past weeks, such as replacing annotations with attributes. In addition, we updated th

Aug 10, 2025, 9:40:09 AM | Symfony
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025:  Join the Symfony Hackathon:  Collaborate, Contribute, Create

🧑‍💻HACKDAY IS COMING!

Get ready to code, collaborate, and contribute, Symfony Hackday is back!

Join us in Amsterdam on Saturday, November 29th, for a hands-on hackathon designed to bring the

Aug 6, 2025, 10:40:04 AM | Symfony
A Week of Symfony #970 (July 28 – August 3, 2025)

This week, Symfony released the maintenance versions 6.4.24, 7.2.9, and 7.3.2. Meanwhile, we began deprecating the XML configuration format in some components, enhanced the YAML configuration format t

Aug 3, 2025, 8:30:03 AM | Symfony