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The Symfony Unicorn: 1 Billion Downloads
A Symfony unicorn!!? It's real! On September 5th, the Symfony Components crossed a huge landmark: the 1 billionth download! This happened less than one year after the last milestone: 500 million...
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New in Symfony 3.4: User impersonation improvements
User impersonation is a popular Symfony security feature that allows you to browse the application as if you were another user, for instance when you are debugging or trying to understand a bug a user...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Better console exceptions
Contributed by Nicolas Grekas,Arnaud, and Yonel Ceruto in #24131 and #21414.Designing exception messages is hard because they are mostly used in stressful situations. Their contents must achieve a...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Groups support for the Valid constraint
Contributed by Christian Flothmann in #21111.The Valid constraint enables validation on objects that are embedded as properties on the object being validated. This allows you to validate an object and...
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A week of symfony #559 (11-17 September 2017)
This week, the upcoming Symfony 3.4 version continued working on improving its performance: most services were made private by default, a new tag was added for resetteable services and features like...
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New in Symfony 3.4: HTTP Immutable Responses
Contributed by Jaroslav Kuba in #22932.Some of the traditional HTTP Cache mechanisms are based on the browser sending HTTP requests to ask whether some specific resource changed since it was retrieved...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Deprecate configuration options
Contributed by Sanpi in #22382.Symfony project follows the semantic versioning strategy and abackward compatibility promise to ensure smooth upgrades of your projects. The main piece of this strategy...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Subscribing to events in the micro kernel
Contributed by Maxime Steinhausser in #23812.In Symfony 2.8, we introduced the MicroKernel trait to provide a different and simpler way to configure the Symfony full-stack framework. Symfony 4, to be...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Improved comparison constraints
Contributed by Maxime Steinhausser in #22576.The original purpose of comparison constraints was to validate properties against some predefined value (e.g. "the price must be greater than 0", "the age...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Advanced environment variables
Contributed by Nicolas Grekas in #23901.Symfony 4 will promote and leverage environment variables to configure some parts of the applications. In Symfony 3.4 we're working hard to make that fully...
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A week of symfony #560 (18-24 September 2017)
This week Symfony continued polishing and merging new features before the "feature freeze" deadline at the end of this month: now it's possible to create kernels that define compiler passes, routes and...
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Symfony 3.4 and 4.0 are about to enter into their "feature freeze"...
Symfony project follows a time-based development process where two new minor versions are released each year and a major version is released every two years.This year, Symfony 3.4 and Symfony 4.0 will...
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New in Symfony: PHP-based configuration for services and routes
Contributed by Nicolas Grekas in #23834 and #24180.Symfony supports several configuration formats out-of-the-box: XML, YAML, PHP and PHP annotations. The best thing is that we don't force you to use...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Better code coverage reports
Contributed by Grégoire Pineau in #23149.Code coverage is a measure describing the degree to which the source code of a program is tested by a particular test suite. Code with high code coverage has...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Deprecated bundle inheritance
Contributed by Fabien Potencier in #24160.One of the biggest changes of the upcoming Symfony 4 version is the removal of bundles to manage the application code. Bundles will still exist as third-party...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Default request context for assets
Contributed by Roland Franssen in #21027.Generating URLs in a command console is tricky because the console context doesn't know anything about HTTP requests, virtual hosts and domain names. This...
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New in Symfony 3.4: PHP-based configuration for services and routes
Contributed by Nicolas Grekas in #23834 and #24180.Symfony supports several configuration formats out-of-the-box: XML, YAML, PHP and PHP annotations. The best thing is that we don't force you to use...
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A week of symfony #561 (25 September - 1 October 2017)
This was the last week before Symfony 3.4 feature freeze period. That's why lots of pending new features were merged (including a new Argon2i password encoder, a better integration of the Lock...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Argon2i password hasher
Contributed by Zan Baldwin in #21604.Symfony recommends to use the Bcrypt password hasher to hash the passwords of your applications. Bcrypt was specifically designed for long-term password storage...
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New in Symfony 3.4: Bootstrap 4 form theme
Contributed by Hidde Wieringa in #21751.Bootstrap, the most popular front-end component library, has been working for years in its next major version: Boostrap 4. This new version switches from Less...
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