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  • Symfony 6.4 LTS, and choosing not to move to 7

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    6.4 and 7.0 shipped in the same week, which is the release model working as designed and is still a decision. Taking the long-term-support release and stopping is…

  • A style variation nobody ever selected

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    Three style variations shipped with a theme, of which one was used, and the other two were maintained for two years. A style variation is a full alternative…

  • Dynamic class constant fetch, and the lookup it replaces

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    Fetching a class constant by a variable name required constant() with a string concatenation, which no tool could follow. The syntax is better than the string concatenation mainly…

  • A model cast as an object, and the money type it holds

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    Two integer columns and a currency string, reassembled by hand in every place that needed a total. A cast that reads several columns and writes several is the…

  • #[Override] on a method that no longer overrides

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    Renaming a parent method is a silent break in every child, and 8.3 finally gives a way to say a method is meant to override something. Adding it…

  • A typed class constant, and the child that narrowed it

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    Constants were the last untyped declaration in the language, and 8.3 fixes that with the covariance rule you would expect. The type is checked at compile time on…

  • Typed class constants, and the interface that had been lying

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    8.3 on 23 November, and a constant can finally declare a type. An interface constant documented as a string, implemented as an int in one class.

  • A transient that never expired because of one typo

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    A transient set with a mismatched key on read, so every request wrote a new row and none was ever read. A transient with an expiry is only…

  • An idempotency key on a POST, documented

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    A client that retried a timed-out payment request and created two, and no way for them to have avoided it. The conflict case is the part that has…

  • readonly and clone, still awkward in 8.3

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    8.3 relaxed one readonly restriction and not the one everybody wants, so a wither is still a constructor call. The __clone relaxation is narrower than it first reads:…