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Remembering Ryan Weaver: Teacher, Core Team Member, Friend

New in Symfony 7.3 Namespaced Caches

Symfony 7.3 introduces namespace-based cache invalidation, allowing you to group and invalidate related cache items efficiently.
May 15, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 10 👍 6 🚀 2 🎉 2

New in Symfony 7.3 Security Improvements

Symfony 7.3 introduces security improvements including safer session password handling, OAuth2 token introspection, OIDC discovery, fine-grained error exposure, and callable-based access checks.
May 14, 2025 #Living on the edge 👀 3 ❤️ 3 👍 7 🚀 6 🎉 3

New in Symfony 7.3 ObjectMapper Component

Symfony 7.3 introduces the ObjectMapper component to eliminate repetitive mapping code between objects.
May 13, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 33 👍 9 🚀 15 🎉 4

New in Symfony 7.3 Explaining Security Voter Decisions

In Symfony 7.3, security voters can now explain their decisions, making it easier to debug authorization issues.
May 12, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 30 👍 12 🚀 6 🎉 4

New in Symfony 7.3 Mailer Security Improvements

Symfony 7.3 adds global email signing and encryption, plus stricter TLS for SMTP.
May 9, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 5 👍 5 🚀 2

New in Symfony 7.3 JsonPath Component

Symfony 7.3 adds the new JsonPath component, which lets you query and extract data from JSON using powerful, RFC-compliant expressions.
May 8, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 28 👍 11 🚀 9 🎉 5

New in Symfony 7.3 New and Improved Console Helpers

In Symfony 7.3, the Console component added a new Markdown table style and a Tree helper for rendering tree-like data.
May 7, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 28 👍 10 🚀 4 🎉 4

New in Symfony 7.3 Static Error Pages

In Symfony 7.3, you can export your error pages as static HTML so the server serves them instantly without running the app.
May 6, 2025 #Living on the edge 👀 4 ❤️ 12 👍 21 🚀 9

New in Symfony 7.3 Simpler Server Event Streaming

In Symfony 7.3, streaming server-sent events is now simpler thanks to the new ServerEvent and EventStreamResponse classes.
May 5, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 25 👍 7 🚀 11 🎉 6

New in Symfony 7.3 Configurable Compound Rate Limiter

In Symfony 7.3, you can now configure compound rate limiters without writing custom code.
May 2, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 14 👍 6 🚀 5