A Week of Symfony #927 (30 September - 6 October 2024)

This week, Symfony 7.2 entered into its stabilization period before its final release at the end of November 2024. Some of the new features merged this week include: support for Mailtrap webhook, a new utility method in the String component, support for a new logical operator in the ExpressionLanguage component, and a new way to sort the extracted translatable contents.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 33 pull requests were merged (24 in code and 9 in docs) and 29 issues were closed (13 in code and 16 in docs). Excluding merges, 18 authors made additions and deletions. See details for code and docs.

5.4 changelog:

• e6e545c: [WebProfilerBundle] do not base services on PHPUnit mocks
• 18ad416: [Security] fix serialized object representation in tests
• 908a91f: [HttpKernel] correctly merge max-age/s-maxage and Expires headers
• 2d324e5: [FrameworkBundle] fix displayed stack trace when session is used on stateless routes

6.4 changelog:

• 2de4387: [Serializer] collect denormalization errors for variadic params
• f5a5104: [Serializer] fix ObjectNormalizer gives warnings on normalizing with public static property

7.2 changelog:

• 10ac244: [Contracts] closure to arrow functions
• 87ac37b: [Mailer, Webhook] Mailtrap webhook support
• 434e901: [String] add the AbstractString::kebab() method
• 40d0089: [FrameworkBundle] never hash the empty decryption key to compute kernel.secret
• d02ab3f: [ExpressionLanguage] add support for logical xor operator
• 0869295: [Notifier] allow jolicode/jolinotif 3
• baa08d6: [Notifier] add support for label parameter in GatewayAPI
• 22213fc: [Translation] allow sort when extracting translation files
• 590f629: [Console] use assertSame for input tests

Newest issues and pull requests

• [TwigBridge] Improve error rendering when running tests
• Add option to prevent pre-filling translations
• [Config] Add StringNode
• [TwigBridge] Update main.css email stylesheet to latest foundation-emails release

They talked about us

• Consuming HTTP Streams in PHP with Symfony HTTP Client and Ollama API
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• Symfony Event Dispatcher Component: How It Works
• Backup and Restore Command for Symfony Migrations
• How to Create a Custom Symfony Bundle in Symfony
• Administrer une entité custom dans un back-office Sylius
• Désactiver des routes Symfony en production

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