Symfony Station Communiqué - November A look at Symfony, Drupal, PHP, and programming news!

This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station.

Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy.

There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. This is why we publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend.

Or jump straight to your favorite section via our website.

• Symfony Universe
• PHP
• More Programming
• Defending Democracy
• Cybersecurity
• Fediverse

Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our communiqué in their Week of Symfony.

My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.

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Symfony

As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.

Highlight -> This week, Symfony 5.4.47, 6.4.15, and 7.1.8 maintenance versions were released. Additionally, the second release candidate of Symfony 7.2 was published, ahead of its final release scheduled for the end of November 2024. Lastly, we published two new security advisories to address some reported security issues in Symfony.

A Week of Symfony #934 (18-24 November 2024)

They also have:

Black Friday 2024 offers from the Symfony Ecosystem

A Newsletter

New in Symfony 7.2: Misc. Improvements (Part 1)

New in Symfony 7.2: Misc. Improvements (Part 2)

SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: See you next week!

Symfony 7.2 curated new features

Blackfire has:

Information is key: Building alert-triggered profiling with Blackfire

SymfonyCasts has:

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Featured Item

TechCrunch reports:

Ai2 releases new language models competitive with Meta’s Llama

Finally an open-source AI product. I will have to update my Ethical AI Stack article.

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This Week

Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explores:

Creating focused domain applications. A Symfony approach (Returning the result)

Thomas Dutrion shows us:

How to install Laravel or Symfony using only Composer

Etienne Lebarillier shares:

Another Way to Structure your Symfony Project

Great article.

ServerAvatar shows us:

How to host Symfony on Hostinger VPS - ServerAvatar

eCommerce

Sylius has:

Month of Sylius: October

Shopware shares:

General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR): What you need to do now

DarkReading reports:

Sneaky Skimmer Malware Targets Magento Sites Ahead of Black Friday

Yegor Shytikov lists:

Top 13 Magento 2 core performance issues

CMSs

TYPO3 has:

TYPO3 ACL — Report for Q3/2024

TYPO3 Association Introduces NGO, Public Sector, eCommerce, and Industry Memberships

TYPO3 Awards 2024 Highlight the Unique Strengths of the Open Source Community

Wolfgang Wagner promotes:

Business Roundtable: Digital mit TYPO3

Andy provides a:

Recap of TYPO3 Community Sprint Q4 2024

Joomla has:

Your first glimpse at Joomla! 5.3.0 Alpha1

Sergey Tolkachyov examines:

The anatomy of smart search in Joomla 5 Part 1: Introduction

Drupal has:

Join the party & help us launch Drupal CMS in style

ImageX Media has:

Unlocking Drupal Recipes: Instantly Boost Your Website's Features

Latest & Greatest Tips to Enhance Your Higher Ed Website’s Online Presence

Specbee says:

A new Drupal CMS is coming soon: Your top questions answered

Matt Glaman advises:

Restrict Composer dependency updates to only patch releases

Morpht announces:

Custom Meta Module joins Metatag: Unlocking advanced custom tag management

Computer Minds looks at:

Putting 1000 sites behind Cloudflare

Droptica shows us:

How to Migrate Drupal 7 to Drupal 11 with Modules? Guide

The Drop Times reports on:

Automating Single Directory Component Creation in Drupal with YAML Script

Markie is:

Introducing the New ChatGPT-Powered Drupal Answers Portal

Previous Weeks

JoliCode shows us how to:

Écrire des assertions PHPUnit plus simples grâce au VarDumper

BitBag explores:

Unlocking the power of content and product management in Sylius

Acseo shares:

Gérer la surcharge de fonctionnalités dans Sylius : Stratégies et bonnes pratiques

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PHP

This Week

Antonio Silva shows us:

Why Using POST for Updates Is Safer Than Hyperlinks

Dan Leach examines:

PHP, Value Objects and You

Markus Staab looks at:

Phpstan Mixed Types

Arief Rahman shows us:

Why PHP Is Often the Target of Exploits: Understanding the Loopholes and How to Anticipate Them

David Duymelinck explores:

The overlooked new php 8.4 features

MD Ariful Haque examines:

PHP Streams: Efficient Data Handling for Large Files

Mahfuzer Rahman asks:

What is PHP Fiber? Does PHP Fiber Really Give You Asynchronous Execution?

Roberto Butti looks at:

Why you should upgrade to PHP 8.4 (or at least a supported PHP version)

Asian Digital Hub explores

How to Use PHP Extensions to Supercharge Your App

Dependency Hell in PHP? Here’s the Secret to Avoiding It.

Previous Weeks

PHP Watch shares a:

PHP 8.4 Installation and Upgrade guide for Ubuntu and Debian

Spo0q examines:

PHP: Practical ways to escape from the hell of Dates

Sangeethmsajan has a peak at:

PHP Fibers

Daniel Martin show us how to:

Configure Emacs for Web Development (PHP)

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More Programming

Yellow Brick Code examines:

DDD, the Natural Evolution of the IT Industry

GitHub looks at:

Breaking down CPU speed: How utilization impacts performance

MIT Technology Review reports:

AI can now create a replica of your personality

Awesome. :(

The Next Web reports:

These will be the most in-demand skills for developers in 2025

MD. Feraj Mukatadir asks:

What is CloudLinux? An Overview of the Leading Operating System for Web Hosting

Interesting.

Smashing Magazine covers:

The Hype Around Signals

Harvard Business School determines:

The Value of Open Source Software

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Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)

Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.

Get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion via RSS or on the Fediverse at @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.

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Please visit Symfony Stations Support Ukraine pageto learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).

The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery

Cory Doctorow reports:

Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform

This is the kind of work we need to be doing.

The Guardian reports:

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

Awesome.

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

The Register reports:

The workplace has become a surveillance state

The Guardian reports:

When will Democrats finally realize that big tech is not an ally?

I've been beating this dead horse for years. Hence, an entire fucking section of Defending Democracy each week.

Cybersecurity/Privacy

DarkReading reports:

Closing the Cybersecurity Career Diversity Gap

The Register reports:

US senators propose law to require bare minimum security standards

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Fediverse

The Fediverse Report has:

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 94

Tyler Fisher

Introducing Sill

Quote: Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what’s happening.

Mashable reports:

Open-source TikTok alternative Loops coming to the Fediverse

Short videos aren't my thing, but it's from the Pixelfed team which is my favorite federated app.

Other Slightly Federated Social Media

The Fediverse Report has:

Last Week in the ATmosphere – The Links -2411.d

Michael Taggart has:

The Bluesky Questions, Part 1

The Bluesky Questions, Part 2

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