Bun in your Laravel project, and Symfony 7.0 is full of types [W38]

This future Symfony 7.0 it's going to affect other projects like Laravel. Finally, it looks like we're going to have a 100% typed framework!

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Laravel

🆕 Laravel 10.23

A patch release yesterday and a few new features today brings us to Laravel 10.23. Here are the highlights:

• Deduplicate exceptions in #48288

• New Artisan make:view command in #48330

• Make ComponentAttributeBag JSON serializable in #48338

• Add newResponse to PendingRequest in #48344

• Passthru --test option from make:model in #48335

• Add before/after database truncation methods to DatabaseTruncation in #48345

• Render mailable inline images in #48292

You may review the full branch diff on GitHub for a complete list of changes.

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Both Laravel Sail and Laravel Forge now includes support for Bun, a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime. Once you update Sail, you can start Bun as follows:

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Symfony

🆕 5.4 changelog:

• 0da9599: [ErrorHandler] handle PHP 8.3 highlight_file function output changes

• b0cc72d: [String] update wcswidth data with Unicode 15.1

• e065f2e: [FrameworkBundle] no serializer mapping cache in debug mode without enable_annotations

• 7c4f174: [Cache] fix using multiple Redis Sentinel hosts when the first one is not resolvable

🆕 6.4 changelog:

• 8d2b79e: [FrameworkBundle] remove obsolete feature detection

• 4857210: [WebProfilerBundle] replace last "old" icon + delete ICONS_LICENCE.txt

• 06b7166: [Security] fix deprecation message

• 30a35e4: [Validator] add is_valid function to Expression constraint

• 253370a: [WebProfilerBundle] fix Form profiler toggles

• 972c442: [Serializer] allow Context to target classes

• 7c833ee: [HttpClient] enable using EventSourceHttpClient::connect() for both GET and POST

• fc2777f: [FrameworkBundle, Test] add token attributes in KernelBrowser::loginUser()

• a90eca6: [Scheduler] fix stateful scheduler

🆕 7.0 changelog:

• cc2a148: [TwigBridge] remove duck typing from AppVariable::getFlashes()

• 0839d5a: [TwigBridge, TwigBundle] drop support for Twig 2

📚 Symfony 7.0 Type Declarations

Symfony has been gradually adding PHP type declarations to its code over multiple versions. Symfony 7.0 aims to complete this initiative by adding return types to all methods, void return types where applicable, and types to all class properties.

Articles & Misc

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