According to Symfony Release Process, every two years Symfony releases the
last version of a branch (X.4
) and the first version of the next branch
(Y.0
) at the same time.
According to Symfony Release Process, every two years Symfony releases the
last version of a branch (X.4
) and the first version of the next branch
(Y.0
) at the same time.
The SymfonyWorld Online 2021 Winter Edition conference will take place next
December, just a few days after the release of Symfony 6.0.
This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version optimized PHP preloading, improved the Web Debug Toolbar to show roles of the logged-in user, added support for resetting container services between two AMQP messages to avoid memory leaks and
This week, Symfony 4.4.30 and 5.3.7 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, Symfony continued fixing minor issues related to the upcoming PHP 8.1 version. Finally, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version added a feature to allow autoconfigurable attributes on methods, properties and parameters.
Symfony 5.3.7 has just been released. Here is a list of the most
important changes:
Symfony 4.4.30 has just been released. Here is a list of the most
important changes:
This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing various bugs across its entire codebase and implementing some minor new features for the upcoming Symfony 5.4 version.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 49 pull requests were merged (49 in code and 0 in docs) and 24 issues were closed (32 in code and 2 in docs). Excluding merges, 23 authors made 1,970 additions and 656 deletions. See details for code and docs.
This week, Symfony announced the end of the Swiftmailer project in favor of the Symfony Mailer project. Meanwhile, the bundles doc section introduced a redesign that will be used in the future in the entire Symfony docs section.
The Symfony Mailer component was released for the first time in Symfony 4.3, released in May 2019. Since then,
we have worked on improving it by adding more third-party providers and adding some missing features that were already available
in Swiftmailer, like DKIM support and email signing.
As of Symfony 5.3, all Swiftmailer great features and more are available in Symfony Mailer.
This week, the upcoming Symfony 5.4 deprecated some helper methods in AbstractController which weren't strictly related to HTTP.