What's new in Symfony 7.x

With the recent release of Symfony 7.0, a new development cycle has begun for your favorite PHP framework. With PHP 8.2 as the minimum version, this is also an opportunity for the community to explore the new possibilities offered by the language. But what has happened in a year? In this talk, I offer you a retrospective on the improvements made to Symfony. New components, enhancements to existing components, as well as new practices and related deprecations, etc. Exciting sources of inspiration for your upcoming projects.

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1. What's new in Symfony 7.x @nicolasgrekas
2. is a set of low-level building blocks that you can assemble to develop powerful high-level features easily
3. symfony.com/releases
4. Backward Compatibility Promise • Upgrade every month for bug fixes • Upgrade every 6 months for features
5. Continuous Upgrade Path • Not unannounced BC breaks • Fix deprecations every 6 months • Upgrade every 2 years for new major
6. Community Work in Progress • 3k files changed, 33k (+), 14k (-) • 180 minors • 134 features
7. Minors
8. Symfony 7 • Add native types • Add generic types • Leverage new syntaxes
9. Thanks php-src #57461 Prefix all \sprintf() calls #57550 Replace `strtok` calls #57856 replace `uniqid()` with `random_bytes()`
10. PHPUnit 11 #58507 [WIP] run unit tests using PHPUnit 11 #58370 [WIP] run integration tests using PHPUnit 11 #58467 Support ClockMock and DnsMock with PHPUnit 10+
11. Performance #57948 Optimize dumped resources for tracking #58233 [Mime] Cache finfo objects #57926 [AssetMaper] Fix entropy of hash in public paths
12. Features
13. New components #44681 Add the HtmlSanitizer component #46715 Add the Clock component #48542 Add the RemoteEvent and Webhook #47112 Add a Scheduler component #48371 Add AssetMapper to manage JS deps without nodejs
14. Notifier/Mailer #54747 Add Primotexto bridge (Samael tomas) #57627 Add Sipgate bridge (Lukas Kaltenbach) #57683 Add JoliNotif bridge (ahmedghanem00) #57456 Add mailomat bridge (scuben) #57431 Add Sweego bridge (welcoMattic) #57903 Add Postal mailer (jonasclaes) #58252 Add Mailtrap bridge (kbond)
15. Dependency Injection #[AsDecorator] #[AsTaggedItem] #[AutowireCallable] #[AutowireDecorated] #[AutowireLocator] #[AutowireServiceClosure] #[AutowireMethodOf] #[AutowireInline]
16. Dependency Injection #57379 Add `#[WhenNot]` attribute (alexandre-daubois) #58004 Add `ContainerBuilder::registerChild()` (HypeMC) #57611 Introducing container non-empty parameters (yceruto)
17. $container->nonEmptyParameter( 'app.secret', 'Did you forget to configure the "app.secret" option?' );
18. Controllers #[CurrentUser] #[MapDateTime] #[MapEntity] #[MapQueryParameter] #[MapQueryString] #[MapRequestPayload] #[ValueResolver]
19. #[Route('/blog')] public function blog( #[MapQueryParameter] int $page = 1, )
20. #[Route('/product-review', methods: ['POST'])] public function post( #[MapRequestPayload] ProductReviewDto $productReview, )
21. String #58385 Add `AbstractString::kebab()` (alexandre-daubois) #57243 Add `TruncateMode` enum (Korbeil) #58228 Add Spanish inflector (dennistobar)
22. Uid #53060 Add UuidV1/6::toV6/7() (fancyweb) #58238 Mention RFC 9562 (fancyweb) => Migrate to lexicographically sortable UUIDs
23. Messenger #53508 Tell transports when messages are still being processed (HypeMC) #57507 Introduce `#[AsMessage]` attribute (pounard)
24. #[AsMessage(transport: ['first_sender', 'second_sender'])]
25. Console #53533 Add ability to schedule alarm signals (HypeMC)
26. #[AsCommand('app:alarm')] class AlarmCommand extends Command implements SignalableCommandInterface { protected function initialize(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): void { $this->getApplication()->setAlarmInterval(10); } public function getSubscribedSignals(): array { return [\SIGALRM]; } public function handleSignal(int $signal, false|int $previousExitCode = 0): int|false { $this->output->writeln('handleAlarm'); } }
27. Security #58095 Implement stateless headers/cookies-based CSRF protection (nicolas-grekas) #57525 Improve profiler’s authenticators tab (MatTheCat)
29. Developer Xperience #57949 SYMFONY_DISABLE_RESOURCE_TRACKING #57804 Enable `json_decode_detailed_errors` in debug mode #57101 Add lint:translations command (Kocal) #58199 Add `--resolve-env-vars` option to `lint:container` (ostrolucky) #58028 Render a `block` via the `#[Template]` attribute (smnandre) #56823 Introduce named serializers (HypeMC)
30. serializer: named_serializers: api1: name_converter: 'serializer.name_converter.camel_case_to_snake_case' default_context: enable_max_depth: true api2: default_context: enable_max_depth: false
31. No-ops Hosting #58161 SYMFONY_TRUSTED_PROXIES/HEADERS/HOSTS, SYMFONY_TRUST_X_SENDFILE_TYPE_HEADER env vars #56985 Derivate `kernel.secret` from the decryption secret #58165 Remove default value for `gc_probability` config option #54384 Compile templates in kernel.build_dir when possible (Okhoshi)
32. New components Under discussion: #51741 [ObjectMapper] (soyuka) #51718 [JsonEncoder] (mtarld) #53213 [FeatureFlags] (Neirda24/Jean-Beru) #53346 [Uri] (alexandre-daubois) #54013 [AccessToken] (pounard)
33. UX Live Components ux-icons class-variance-authority Idiomorph and turbo 8
34. Credits
35. Hundreds of contributors
36. Backers for 7.1 And … your logo?
37. symfony.com/slack Twitter LinkedIn Mutual aid Kindness CARE team
38. Thank you and see you soon!