Migrating to Symfony 4 & Flex

A quick walkthrough of the major steps to take when migrating your existing Symfony 2/3 application to Symfony 4 using the Flex directory structure.

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1. Denis Brumann
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de Migrating to Symfony 4 1 from Symfony 2 & 3
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4. Denis Brumann
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 4 Denis Brumann Software Developer Berlin, Germany
5. Denis Brumann
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 5 https://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/community/releases.html
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 6 https://symfony.com/roadmap Symfony Version End of Support End Of Security Fixes 2.8 (LTS) November 2018 November 2019 3.4 (LTS) November 2020 November 2021 4.0 July 2018 January 2019
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 7 Flex is not your only option
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 8 composer update symfony/symfony
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 10 https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-3-3-persisted-deprecation-logs
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 11 Step 1: Add symfony/flex as a dependency from Symfony 3.4
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 12 Step 2: Remove the symfony/symfony package
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 13 Step 3: Make sure symfony/symfony is not kept
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 14 optionally: stay with Symfony 3.4 first
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 15 Step 4: Manually require your Symfony dependencies
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 17 Symfony 3 Symfony 4
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 20 Step 6a: Move src/AppBundle/* to src/* Step 6b: Move namespace AppBundle\ to App\ Step 6c: Update autoload-section in composer.json
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 22 composer require acme/my-bundle
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 23 { "require": { "acme/my-bundle": "dev-master" }, "repositories": [ { "type": "vcs", "url": "git@bitbucket.org:acme/my-bundle.git" } ] }
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 26 Step 9: Create bin/console
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 denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de 27 https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup/flex.html#upgrade-to-flex https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup/upgrade_major.html