This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version added features such as allowing to extend the #[When] attribute, adding conditional types to conditional configuration builders, introduced a new messenger:count command that lists the pending messages per transport and improved the #IsGranted attribute to allow using expressions.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 58 pull requests were merged (36 in code and 22 in docs) and 54 issues were closed (39 in code and 15 in docs). Excluding merges, 30 authors made 489,869 additions and 76,130 deletions. See details for code and docs.

4.4 changelog:

6c0f7da: [HttpFoundation] fix invalid ID not regenerated with native PHP file sessions
25c2131: [HttpClient] fix memory leak when using StreamWrapper
7129a32: [HttpClient] fix shared connections not being freed on PHP < 8
754f754: [Mailer] fix error message in case of an STMP error
23c6b9d: [Translation] fix translator overlapse
0420d3c: [TwigBridge] suggest to install the Twig bundle when the required component is already installed
fcd9c2d: [DowCrawler] fix locale-sensitivity of whitespace normalization
c944281: [Validator] add additional hint when egulias/email-validator needs to be installed
a08fd86: [Form] ignore missing keys when mapping DateTime objects to uninitialized arrays

5.4 changelog:

db7c211: [Console] fix ConsoleEvents::SIGNAL subscriber dispatch
a4e68c2: [Filesystem] remove needless mb_* calls
12ea6e2: [Serializer] fix throwing right exception in ArrayDenormalizer with invalid type

6.1 changelog:

077bd82: [Translation] fix reading intl-icu domains with LocoProvider

6.2 changelog:

02b8534: [Console] fewer syscalls when fetching $LINES/$COLUMNS
055c0dc: [Config] add conditional types to conditional builders
ac1d2a4: [Messenger] add new messenger:count command that returns a list of transports with their „to be processed“ message count
445f0f1: [Security] remove using multiple attributes with #[IsGranted]
e7fbf28: [Security] allow using expressions with the #[IsGranted] attribute
1dedb22: improve some PHPdocs based on existing Symfony stubs in PHPstan and Psalm
667e635: [DependencyInjection] show error when a null value is provided in the exclude list
d7eb344: [Mailer] use better error code when auth fails
aea5200: [Mailer] add a way to inject Stamps when sending an email via Messenger
e1435f6: [DependencyInjection] allow extending #[When] attribute
1a4a5d5: [Messenger] add TransportNamesStamp to change the transport while dispatching a message

Newest issues and pull requests

[Serializer] Allow configuring default options in JSON encoding
[Serializer] Make Interfaces denormalizeable without discriminator

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