What's New in early 2023

A lot has happened in the last year! 52 blog posts to keep you up to date with all the news, a bunch of pull requests, two new versions, a lot of features... Well, I'm sure you missed something. Let's have a look at what happened these last 12 months in the Symfony ecosystem.

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1. 12 months of
   innovations 🪄
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2. @nicolasgrekas
   • Joined in 2013 at v2.5
   • SensioLabs > Blackfire.io > Symfony Corp.
   • Admin board of the PHP Foundation
   • 3000+ PRs (10%)
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3. symfony.com/releases
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4. Symfony 6
   • PHP >= 8.1
   • Backward Compatibility promise
   • Upgrade every months for bug fixes
   • Upgrade 6 months for features
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5. 6.1, 6.2, 6.3-dev
   Symfony 7 is coming!
   Continuous Upgrade
   Path promise
   Fix deprecations
   every 6 months
   Upgrade every 2 years
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6. git diff --stat
   • 5 724 files changed
   • 570 318 insertions(+)
   • 35 622 deletions(-)
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7. 5 merges / day
   • 484 minors
   • 468 bug fixes
   • 309 features
   • 497 merges up
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8. Minors
   🧹
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9. Performance
   #48802 Cut compilation time
   #49291 Add NormalizerInterface::getSupportedTypes()
   #49676 Improve performance of GlobResource
   #48469 Use WeakReference in the container
   #47094 Use xxh128 instead of sha256 for http cache store key
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10. - return 'en'.hash('sha256', $content);
    + return 'en'.hash('xxh128', $content);
    ./{apps,src}/**/*Controller.php
    + $selfRef = \WeakReference::create($this);
    - $this->closure = fn () => $this->doSomething();
    + $this->closure = static fn () => $selfRef->get()->doSomething();
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11. Types
    #49383 Add missing return types to interfaces
    #49022 Add missing template notation on ServiceLocator
    #48750 Add generics to PasswordUpgraderInterface
    #47390 Remove @inheritdoc
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12. + /**
    + * @template T
    + *
    + * @param T $var
    + *
    + * @return T
    + */
    function dump(mixed $var, mixed ...$moreVars): mixed
    {
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13. PHPUnit 10
    #49663 Remove withConsecutive() calls from tests
    #49233 Use PHPUnit 9.6 to run Symfony's test suite
    #48668 Migrate to static data providers
    #49253 Use TestCase suffix for abstract test cases
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14. - public function provideUidEntityClasses()
    + public static function provideUidEntityClasses()
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15. New syntax
    #48793 Leverage arrow function syntax for closure
    #48670 Use ::class
    #48069 Use ??= more
    #47672 Leverage First-class callable syntax
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16. - $this->class = get_class($object);
    + $this->class = $object::class;
    - $values = array_filter($values, function ($val) { return null !== $val; });
    + $values = array_filter($values, fn ($val) => null !== $val);
    - if (null === $path) {
    - $path = '/';
    - }
    + $path ??= '/';
    - Loop::defer([Loop::class, 'stop']);
    + Loop::defer(Loop::stop(...));
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17. Improvements
    #46392 Add favicon to welcome 👋 and error pages ❌
    #48705 Stop considering empty env vars as populated
    #49625 Keep track of decorated ids
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18. $ bin/console debug:autowiring
    - Symfony\Contracts\HttpClient\HttpClientInterface (.debug.http_client)
    + Symfony\Contracts\HttpClient\HttpClientInterface (http_client)
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19. Continuous
    Integration
    #49001 Speed up Psalm tests (12 to 2 minutes)
    #47180 Add ossf/scorecardGitHub action
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20. Features
    🤩
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21. ⌚ 🤝 🕸 📅
    New components
    #46715 Add the Clock component
    #48542 Add the RemoteEventand Webhook
    #47112 Add a scheduler component
    #48371 Add ImportMaps to manage JS deps without nodejs
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22. ⚰️
    SensioFramework
    ExtraBundle
    #46880 Add #[Cache] to describe cache headers on controllers
    #46907 Add #[IsGranted] to check roles on controllers
    #46906 Add #[Template] to render arrays using templates
    #43854 Add #[MapEntity] together with EntityValueResolver
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23. #[Route('/user/{id}')]
    #[Template('user/show.html.twig')]
    #[IsGranted('ROLE_USER')]
    #[Cache(smaxage: 60)]
    public function show(User $user)
    {
    return [
    'user' => $user,
    ];
    }
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24. 🕹️
    Controllers
    #49358 Deprecate @route annotations in favor of attributes
    #49134 Add #[MapQueryParameter]to map query parameters
    #49138 Add #[MapRequestBody] and #[MapQueryString]
    #47709 Add StreamedJsonResponsefor efficient JSON streaming
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25. 🌽
    HttpKernel
    #48352 #[WithHttpStatus] for defining status codes for exceptions
    #48747 #[WithLogLevel] for defining log levels for exceptions
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    #[WithHttpStatus(429, ['Retry-After' => 10])]
    #[WithLogLevel(LogLevel::INFO)]
    class RateLimitedException extends \Exception
    {
    

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26. 🛡️
    Security
    #46428 Add token-based authentication
    #41274 Add Security::login()to login programmatically
    #41406 Add Security::logout()to logout programmatically
    #49306 Add logout configuration for Clear-Site-Dataheader
    @nicolasgrekas
    Clear-Site-Data: "cookies"
    

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27. 🧙‍♂️
    Dependency
    Injection 1/2
    #47680 Remove parameters starting with a dot when compiling
    #47719 Add ContainerBuilder::deprecateParameter()
    #49411 Add support for #[AsAlias] during auto-discovery
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28. @nicolasgrekas
    #[AsAlias('my-alias', public: true)]
    #[AsAlias(MyInterface::class)]
    class MyService implements MyInterface
    {
    

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29. 🧙‍♀️
    Dependency
    Injection 2/2
    #46752 Generate lazy proxies out of the box
    #48484 Deprecate proxy-manager bridge
    #49685 Add support for #[Autowire(lazy: true)]
    #49628 Autowire services as closures with #[AutowireCallable]
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30. @nicolasgrekas
    public function __construct(
    #[AutowireCallable(UriTemplate::class, 'expand')]
    UriExpanderInterface $expander,
    )
    new class($uriTemplate->expand(...)) implements UriExpanderInterface {
    public function __construct(
    private \Closure $closure,
    ) {
    }
    public function expand(string $url, array $vars): string
    {
    return $this->closure->__invoke($url, $vars);
    }
    }
    $uriTemplate->expand(...)
    

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31. 🫶
    Developer
    eXperience
    #47352 Remove profilesautomatically after two days
    #48059 Auto-create Doctrine migrations for sessions and locks
    #46895 Add NotificationAssertionsTrait
    #48707 Fail if #[Target] attribute does not exist during compilation
    #48938 Allow setting private services with the test container
    #48432 Add support of named arguments to dd() and dump()
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32. @nicolasgrekas
    static::getContainer()
    ->set('http_client', new MockHttpClient(...));
    dump(hello: 'World');
    

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33. 🎁
    Various Goodies
    #47525 Add UuidV7 and UuidV8
    #49529 Add support for better signal handling in commands
    #49302 Add UriTemplateHttpClientto use RFC-6570
    #49300 Add #[NoSuspiciousCharacters]to spot spoofing attempt
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34. 🔔️
    Notifier
    #47373 Add Chatwork bridge
    #46395 Add Contact Everyone bridge
    #46724 Add SMSFactor bridge
    #49454 Add Pushover bridge
    #49461 Add MailerSend bridge
    #48855 Add PagerDuty bridge
    #48101 Add Mastodon bridge
    #48466 Add Line bridge
    #48389 Add Bandwidth bridge
    #48394 Add Plivo bridge
    #48397 Add RingCentral bridge
    #48398 Add Termii bridge
    #48399 Add iSendPro bridge
    #48084 Add Twitter bridge
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35. Help Wanted
    See issues with
    "Help Wanted" label
    Contribute to the
    documentation!
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36. 360+ contributors
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37. Backers for 6.2
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38. Backers for 6.3
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39. symfony.com/
    sponsor
    • Become a backer
    • Deploy on Platform.sh
    • Attend Symfony conferences
    • Get certified
    • Sign up for SymfonyInsight
    • Buy the Symfony book
    • Subscribe to SymfonyCasts
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40. symfony.com/slack
    Mutual aid
    Kindness
    CARE team
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41. Merci ! 🫶
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