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Laravel

🆕 Laravel 10.18

Couple patch releases last week and a minor release yesterday brings us to Laravel 10.18. Here are the highlights:

Update ensure() to correctly work with interfaces and object inheritance in #47934
Allow DatabaseRefreshed event to include given database and seed options in #47923
Improve decimal shape validation in #47954
Add content() to Vite in #47968

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

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Symfony

🆕 5.4 changelog

1a2eb14: [Messenger] always return bool from messenger amqp connection nack
3579d24: [Mailer] update Brevo SMTP host
5204e80: [FrameworkBundle] change default doctrine DBAL provider to XML attribute
2c8e5fd: [FrameworkBundle] add missing default-doctrine-dbal-provider cache pool attribute to XSD
83e60df: [DoctrineBridge] silence ORM deprecation
6d45e0a: [Process] fix silencing wait when using a sigchild-enabled binary

🆕 6.3 changelog

785b66a: [Serializer] make deprecation message more actionable
6d11c7a: [FrameworkBundle] fix XSD for handle-all-throwables

🆕 6.4 changelog

7513b48: [FrameworkBundle] replace conditional statements by a simple Null Coalescing operator in KernelTestCase::createKernel
a8da87e: [OptionsResolver] improve invalid type message on nested option
922e98e: [SecurityBundle] deprecate the require_previous_session config option
15d7b1b: remove unneeded calls to setPublic(false)
d6d233b: [Workflow] use TRANSITION_TYPE_WORKFLOW for rendering workflow in profiler
bacbe8d: [Notifier] add GoIP bridge
6141656: [Notifier, Webhook] add Vonage support

🆕 7.0 changelog:

7784ee1: [SecurityBundle] remove the require_previous_session config option

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