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New in Symfony 2.7: PHPUnit Bridge
Symfony defines several bridges to abstract third-party libraries such as Doctrine, Monolog, Swiftmailer and Twig. In Symfony 2.7 we added a new bridge for PHPUnit.
New in Symfony 2.7: VarDumper improvements
In Symfony 2.7 we made the VarDumper component dump() function easier to use and we also improved the dumping of complex variables such as PHP reflection classes.
New in Symfony 2.7: Form and Validator Updates
The Form and Validator components are one of the largest Symfony components. In Symfony 2.7 we improved them by adding new features and deprecating some existing features.
New in Symfony 2.7: Dependency Injection Improvements
The DependencyInjection component allows you to standardize and centralize the way objects are constructed in your PHP applications. This component is used to create the service container, which is the biggest contributor to the extensibility of the Symfony framework. Symfony 2.7 improves this component with new features but it also removes some of its current features.
New in Symfony 2.7: Choice form type refactorization
The Choice Form Type is one of the most advanced form types defined by Symfony. In Symfony 2.7 this form type has been completely refactored to support dynamic generation for labels, values, indexes and attributes.
New in Symfony 2.7: Productivity improvements
Symfony 2.7 includes countless code tweaks and improvements. A lot of them are minor changes that will increase your day-to-day productivity. In this article we introduce seven of those small but nice features.
New in Symfony 2.7: the new Asset component
Symfony 2.7 introduces a new component called Asset which manages URL generation and versioning of web assets such as CSS stylesheets, JavaScript files and image files.
New in Symfony 2.7: Security Improvements
In addition to high impact changes and big features, the new Symfony versions always add tweaks and minor improvements across its codebase. In this article you'll learn about three small security-related changes that will improve your day-to-day productivity as developer.
New in Symfony 2.7: Twig Profiler
In Symfony project we believe that all the information relevant to developers should be one click away. That's why in Symfony 2.7 we've added a new panel with Twig information in the web debug toolbar.
New in Symfony 2.7: Serializer Component Improvements
In Symfony 2.7, the Symfony Serializer component has been greatly improved with lots of new features. This article introduces the most important ones.