UPGRADE FROM 6.4 to 7.0

Symfony 6.4 and Symfony 7.0 are released simultaneously at the end of November 2023. According to the Symfony release process, both versions have the same features, but Symfony 7.0 doesn't include any deprecated features. To upgrade, make sure to resolve all deprecation notices. Read more about this in the Symfony documentation.

Symfony 7.0 introduced many native return and property types. Read the announcement blogpost on how to quickly make your code compatible.

Cache

Add parameter \Closure $isSameDatabase to DoctrineDbalAdapter::configureSchema()
Drop support for Postgres < 9.5 and SQL Server < 2008 in DoctrineDbalAdapter

Config

Require explicit argument when calling NodeBuilder::setParent()

Console

Remove Command::$defaultName and Command::$defaultDescription, use the AsCommand attribute instead

Before

use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;

class CreateUserCommand extends Command
{
    protected static $defaultName = 'app:create-user';
    protected static $defaultDescription = 'Creates users';

    // ...
}

After

use Symfony\Component\Console\Attribute\AsCommand;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;

#[AsCommand(name: 'app:create-user', description: 'Creates users')]
class CreateUserCommand extends Command
{
    // ...
}

Require explicit argument when calling *Command::setApplication(), *FormatterStyle::setForeground/setBackground(), Helper::setHelpSet(), Input*::setDefault() and Question::setAutocompleterCallback/setValidator()
Remove StringInput::REGEX_STRING, use StringInput::REGEX_UNQUOTED_STRING or StringInput::REGEX_QUOTED_STRING instead
Add method __toString() to InputInterface

DependencyInjection

Rename #[MapDecorated] to #[AutowireDecorated]
Remove ProxyHelper, use Symfony\Component\VarExporter\ProxyHelper instead
Remove ReferenceSetArgumentTrait
Remove support of @required annotation, use the Symfony\Contracts\Service\Attribute\Required attribute instead
Require explicit argument when calling ContainerAwareTrait::setContainer()
Remove PhpDumper options inline_factories_parameter and inline_class_loader_parameter, use options inline_factories and inline_class_loader with the direct boolean value instead
Parameter names of ParameterBag cannot be numerics

Remove ContainerAwareInterface and ContainerAwareTrait, use dependency injection instead

Before

class MailingListService implements ContainerAwareInterface
{
    use ContainerAwareTrait;

    public function sendMails()
    {
        $mailer = $this->container->get('mailer');

        // ...
    }
}

After

use Symfony\Component\Mailer\MailerInterface;

class MailingListService
{
    public function __construct(
        private MailerInterface $mailer,
    ) {
    }

    public function sendMails()
    {
        $mailer = $this->mailer;

        // ...
    }
}

To fetch services lazily, you can use a service subscriber.

Add parameter string $id = null and bool &$asGhostObject = null to LazyProxy\PhpDumper\DumperInterface::isProxyCandidate() and getProxyCode()
Add parameter string $source = null to FileLoader::registerClasses()

DoctrineBridge

Remove DoctrineDbalCacheAdapterSchemaSubscriber, use DoctrineDbalCacheAdapterSchemaListener instead
Remove MessengerTransportDoctrineSchemaSubscriber, use MessengerTransportDoctrineSchemaListener instead
Remove RememberMeTokenProviderDoctrineSchemaSubscriber, use RememberMeTokenProviderDoctrineSchemaListener instead
Remove DbalLogger, use a middleware instead
Remove DoctrineDataCollector::addLogger(), use a DebugDataHolder instead
Remove ContainerAwareLoader, use dependency injection in your fixtures instead
ContainerAwareEventManager::getListeners() must be called with an event name
DoctrineBridge now requires doctrine/event-manager:^2
Add parameter \Closure $isSameDatabase to DoctrineTokenProvider::configureSchema()

Remove support for Doctrine subscribers in ContainerAwareEventManager, use listeners instead

Before

use Doctrine\Bundle\DoctrineBundle\EventSubscriber\EventSubscriberInterface;
use Doctrine\ORM\Event\PostFlushEventArgs;
use Doctrine\ORM\Events;

class InvalidateCacheSubscriber implements EventSubscriberInterface
{
     public function getSubscribedEvents(): array
     {
         return [Events::postFlush];
     }

     public function postFlush(PostFlushEventArgs $args): void
     {
         // ...
     }
}

After

use Doctrine\Bundle\DoctrineBundle\Attribute\AsDoctrineListener;
use Doctrine\ORM\Event\PostFlushEventArgs;
use Doctrine\ORM\Events;

// Instead of PHP attributes, you can also tag this service with "doctrine.event_listener"
#[AsDoctrineListener(event: Events::postFlush)]
class InvalidateCacheSubscriber
{
     public function postFlush(PostFlushEventArgs $args): void
     {
         // ...
     }
}

DomCrawler

Add parameter bool $normalizeWhitespace = true to Crawler::innerText()
Add parameter string $default = null to Crawler::attr()

ExpressionLanguage

The in and not in operators now use strict comparison

Filesystem

Add parameter bool $lock = false to Filesystem::appendToFile()

Form

Throw when using DateTime or DateTimeImmutable model data with a different timezone than configured with the model_timezone option in DateType, DateTimeType, and TimeType
Make the "widget" option of date/time form types default to "single_text"
Require explicit argument when calling Button/Form::setParent(), ButtonBuilder/FormConfigBuilder::setDataMapper(), TransformationFailedException::setInvalidMessage()
PostSetDataEvent::setData() throws an exception, use PreSetDataEvent::setData() instead
PostSubmitEvent::setData() throws an exception, use PreSubmitDataEvent::setData() or SubmitDataEvent::setData() instead
Add $duplicatePreferredChoices parameter to ChoiceListFactoryInterface::createView()

FrameworkBundle

Renamed command translation:update to translation:extract
Remove the Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\ObjectNormalizer and Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\PropertyNormalizer autowiring aliases, type-hint against Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\NormalizerInterface or implement NormalizerAwareInterface instead
Remove the Http\Client\HttpClient service, use Psr\Http\Client\ClientInterface instead
Remove AbstractController::renderForm(), pass the FormInterface as parameter to render()

Before
```
$this->renderForm(..., ['form' => $form]);
```
After
```
$this->render(..., ['form' => $form]);
```
Remove the integration of the Doctrine annotations library, use native attributes instead
Remove EnableLoggerDebugModePass, use argument $debug of HttpKernel's Logger instead
Remove AddDebugLogProcessorPass::configureLogger(), use HttpKernel's DebugLoggerConfigurator instead
Add array $tokenAttributes = [] optional parameter to KernelBrowser::loginUser()

Change default of some config options:

option	default Symfony <7.0	default in Symfony 7.0+
`framework.http_method_override`	`true`	`false`
`framework.handle_all_throwables`	`false`	`true`
`framework.php_errors.log`	`'%kernel.debug%'`	`true`
`framework.session.cookie_secure`	`false`	`auto`
`framework.session.cookie_samesite`	`null`	`'lax'`
`framework.session.handler_id`	`'session.handler.native'`	`null` if `save_path` is not set, `'session.handler.native_file'` otherwise
`framework.uid.default_uuid_version`	`6`	`7`
`framework.uid.time_based_uuid_version`	`6`	`7`
`framework.validation.email_validation_mode`	`'loose'`	`'html5'`

Remove the framework.validation.enable_annotations config option, use framework.validation.enable_attributes instead
Remove the framework.serializer.enable_annotations config option, use framework.serializer.enable_attributes instead
Remove the routing.loader.annotation service, use the routing.loader.attribute service instead
Remove the routing.loader.annotation.directory service, use the routing.loader.attribute.directory service instead
Remove the routing.loader.annotation.file service, use the routing.loader.attribute.file service instead
Remove AnnotatedRouteControllerLoader, use AttributeRouteControllerLoader instead
Remove AddExpressionLanguageProvidersPass, use Symfony\Component\Routing\DependencyInjection\AddExpressionLanguageProvidersPass instead
Remove DataCollectorTranslatorPass, use Symfony\Component\Translation\DependencyInjection\DataCollectorTranslatorPass instead
Remove LoggingTranslatorPass, use Symfony\Component\Translation\DependencyInjection\LoggingTranslatorPass instead
Remove WorkflowGuardListenerPass, use Symfony\Component\Workflow\DependencyInjection\WorkflowGuardListenerPass instead

HttpFoundation

Calling ParameterBag::filter() on an invalid value throws an UnexpectedValueException instead of returning false. The exception is more specific for InputBag which throws a BadRequestException when invalid value is found. The flag FILTER_NULL_ON_FAILURE can be used to return null instead of throwing an exception.
The methods ParameterBag::getInt() and ParameterBag::getBool() no longer fallback to 0 or false when the value cannot be converted to the expected type. They throw a UnexpectedValueException instead.
Remove RequestMatcher, use ChainRequestMatcher instead
Remove ExpressionRequestMatcher, use RequestMatcher\ExpressionRequestMatcher instead
Rename Request::getContentType() to Request::getContentTypeFormat()
Throw an InvalidArgumentException when calling Request::create() with a malformed URI
Require explicit argument when calling JsonResponse::setCallback(), Response::setExpires/setLastModified/setEtag(), MockArraySessionStorage/NativeSessionStorage::setMetadataBag(), NativeSessionStorage::setSaveHandler()
Add parameter int $statusCode = null to Response::sendHeaders() and StreamedResponse::sendHeaders()

HttpClient

Remove implementing Http\Message\RequestFactory from HttplugClient

HttpKernel

Add parameter \ReflectionFunctionAbstract $reflector = null to ArgumentResolverInterface::getArguments() and ArgumentMetadataFactoryInterface::createArgumentMetadata()
Add argument $buildDir to WarmableInterface
Remove ArgumentValueResolverInterface, use ValueResolverInterface instead
Remove StreamedResponseListener
Remove AbstractSurrogate::$phpEscapeMap
Rename HttpKernelInterface::MASTER_REQUEST to HttpKernelInterface::MAIN_REQUEST
Remove terminate_on_cache_hit option from HttpCache, it will now always act as false
Require explicit argument when calling ConfigDataCollector::setKernel(), RouterListener::setCurrentRequest()
Remove FileLinkFormatter, use FileLinkFormatter from the ErrorHandler component instead
Remove UriSigner, use UriSigner from the HttpFoundation component instead
Remove Kernel::stripComments()
Add argument $filter to Profiler::find() and FileProfilerStorage::find()

Lock

Add parameter \Closure $isSameDatabase to DoctrineDbalStore::configureSchema()
Rename gcProbablity (notice the typo) option to gcProbability in the MongoDbStore

Mailer

Remove the OhMySmtp bridge in favor of the MailPace bridge

Messenger

Add parameter \Closure $isSameDatabase to DoctrineTransport::configureSchema()

Remove MessageHandlerInterface and MessageSubscriberInterface, use #[AsMessageHandler] instead

Before

use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Handler\MessageHandlerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Handler\MessageSubscriberInterface;

class SmsNotificationHandler implements MessageHandlerInterface
{
    public function __invoke(SmsNotification $message): void
    {
        // ...
    }
}

class UploadedImageHandler implements MessageSubscriberInterface
{
    public static function getHandledMessages(): iterable
    {
        yield ThumbnailUploadedImage::class => ['method' => 'handleThumbnail'];
        yield ProfilePictureUploadedImage::class => ['method' => 'handleProfilePicture'];
    }

    // ...
}

After

use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Attribute\AsMessageHandler;

#[AsMessageHandler]
class SmsNotificationHandler
{
    public function __invoke(SmsNotification $message): void
    {
        // ...
    }
}

class UploadedImageHandler
{
    #[AsMessageHandler]
    public function handleThumbnail(ThumbnailUploadedImage $message): void
    {
        // ...
    }

    #[AsMessageHandler]
    public function handleThumbnail(ProfilePictureUploadedImage $message): void
    {
        // ...
    }
}

Remove StopWorkerOnSigtermSignalListener in favor of using the SignalableCommandInterface
Remove StopWorkerOnSignalsListener in favor of using the SignalableCommandInterface
Rename Symfony\Component\Messenger\Transport\InMemoryTransport and Symfony\Component\Messenger\Transport\InMemoryTransportFactory to Symfony\Component\Messenger\Transport\InMemory\InMemoryTransport and Symfony\Component\Messenger\Transport\InMemory\InMemoryTransportFactory respectively
Remove HandlerFailedException::getNestedExceptions(), HandlerFailedException::getNestedExceptionsOfClass() and DelayedMessageHandlingException::getExceptions() which are replaced by a new getWrappedExceptions() method

Mime

Remove Email::attachPart() method, use Email::addPart() instead
Require explicit argument when calling Message::setBody()

MonologBridge

Drop support for monolog < 3.0
Remove class Logger, use HttpKernel's DebugLoggerConfigurator instead

PropertyAccess

Add method isNullSafe() to PropertyPathInterface
Require explicit argument when calling PropertyAccessorBuilder::setCacheItemPool()

ProxyManagerBridge

Remove the bridge, use VarExporter's lazy objects instead

Routing

Add parameter array $routeParameters to UrlMatcher::handleRouteRequirements()
Remove Doctrine annotations support in favor of native attributes. Use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route as native attribute now
Remove AnnotationClassLoader, use AttributeClassLoader instead
Remove AnnotationDirectoryLoader, use AttributeDirectoryLoader instead
Remove AnnotationFileLoader, use AttributeFileLoader instead

Security

Add parameter string $badgeFqcn = null to Passport::addBadge()
Add parameter int $lifetime = null to LoginLinkHandlerInterface::createLoginLink()
Require explicit argument when calling TokenStorage::setToken()
Change argument $lastUsed of TokenProviderInterface::updateToken() to accept DateTimeInterface
Throw when calling the constructor of DefaultLoginRateLimiter with an empty secret

SecurityBundle

Enabling SecurityBundle and not configuring it is not allowed, either remove the bundle or configure at least one firewall
Remove the require_previous_session config option from authenticators

Serializer

Add method getSupportedTypes() to DenormalizerInterface and NormalizerInterface
Remove denormalization support for AbstractUid in UidNormalizer, use one of AbstractUid child class instead
Denormalizing to an abstract class in UidNormalizer now throws an \Error

Remove ContextAwareDenormalizerInterface and ContextAwareNormalizerInterface, use DenormalizerInterface and NormalizerInterface instead

Before

use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\ContextAwareNormalizerInterface;

class TopicNormalizer implements ContextAwareNormalizerInterface
{
    public function normalize($topic, string $format = null, array $context = [])
    {
    }
}

After

use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\NormalizerInterface;

class TopicNormalizer implements NormalizerInterface
{
    public function normalize($topic, string $format = null, array $context = [])
    {
    }
}

Remove CacheableSupportsMethodInterface, use NormalizerInterface and DenormalizerInterface instead

Before

use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\NormalizerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\CacheableSupportsMethodInterface;

class TopicNormalizer implements NormalizerInterface, CacheableSupportsMethodInterface
{
    public function supportsNormalization($data, string $format = null, array $context = []): bool
    {
        return $data instanceof Topic;
    }

    public function hasCacheableSupportsMethod(): bool
    {
        return true;
    }

    // ...
}

After

use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\NormalizerInterface;

class TopicNormalizer implements NormalizerInterface
{
    public function supportsNormalization($data, string $format = null, array $context = []): bool
    {
        return $data instanceof Topic;
    }

    public function getSupportedTypes(?string $format): array
    {
        return [
            Topic::class => true,
        ];
    }

    // ...
}

Require explicit argument when calling AttributeMetadata::setSerializedName() and ClassMetadata::setClassDiscriminatorMapping()
Add parameter array $context = [] to NormalizerInterface::supportsNormalization() and DenormalizerInterface::supportsDenormalization()
Remove Doctrine annotations support in favor of native attributes
Remove the annotation reader parameter from the constructor of AnnotationLoader

The following Normalizer classes have become final, use decoration instead of inheritance:

ConstraintViolationListNormalizer
CustomNormalizer
DataUriNormalizer
DateIntervalNormalizer
DateTimeNormalizer
DateTimeZoneNormalizer
GetSetMethodNormalizer
JsonSerializableNormalizer
ObjectNormalizer
PropertyNormalizer

Before

use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\ObjectNormalizer;

class TopicNormalizer extends ObjectNormalizer
{
    // ...

    public function normalize($topic, string $format = null, array $context = []): array
    {
        $data = parent::normalize($topic, $format, $context);

        // ...
    }
}

After

use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Attribute\Autowire;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\DenormalizerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\NormalizerInterface;

class TopicNormalizer implements NormalizerInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        #[Autowire(service: 'serializer.normalizer.object')] private NormalizerInterface&DenormalizerInterface $objectNormalizer,
    ) {
    }

    public function normalize($topic, string $format = null, array $context = []): array
    {
        $data = $this->objectNormalizer->normalize($topic, $format, $context);

        // ...
    }

    // ...
}

Remove AnnotationLoader, use AttributeLoader instead

Templating

Remove the component; use Twig instead

Translation

Remove PhpStringTokenParser
Remove PhpExtractor in favor of PhpAstExtractor

TwigBundle

Remove the Twig_Environment autowiring alias, use Twig\Environment instead
Remove option twig.autoescape; create a class that implements your escaping strategy (check FileExtensionEscapingStrategy::guess() for inspiration) and reference it using the twig.autoescape_service option instead
Drop support for Twig 2

Validator

Add methods getConstraint(), getCause() and __toString() to ConstraintViolationInterface
Add method __toString() to ConstraintViolationListInterface
Add method disableTranslation() to ConstraintViolationBuilderInterface
Remove static property $errorNames from all constraints, use const ERROR_NAMES instead
Remove static property $versions from the Ip constraint, use the VERSIONS constant instead
Remove VALIDATION_MODE_LOOSE from Email constraint, use VALIDATION_MODE_HTML5 instead
Remove constraint ExpressionLanguageSyntax, use ExpressionSyntax instead. The new constraint is ignored when the value is null or blank, consistently with the other constraints in this component
Remove Doctrine annotations support in favor of native attributes
Remove ValidatorBuilder::setDoctrineAnnotationReader()
Remove ValidatorBuilder::addDefaultDoctrineAnnotationReader()
Remove ValidatorBuilder::enableAnnotationMapping(), use ValidatorBuilder::enableAttributeMapping() instead
Remove ValidatorBuilder::disableAnnotationMapping(), use ValidatorBuilder::disableAttributeMapping() instead
Remove AnnotationLoader, use AttributeLoader instead

VarDumper

Add parameter string $label = null to VarDumper::dump()
Require explicit argument when calling VarDumper::setHandler()

VarExporter

Remove support for per-property lazy-initializers

Workflow

Require explicit argument when calling Definition::setInitialPlaces()
GuardEvent::getContext() method has been removed. Method was not supposed to be called within guard event listeners as it always returned an empty array anyway.

Yaml

Remove the !php/const: tag, use !php/const instead (without the colon)

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UPGRADE-7.0.md

UPGRADE-7.0.md

UPGRADE FROM 6.4 to 7.0

Table of Contents

Cache

Config

Console

DependencyInjection

DoctrineBridge

DomCrawler

ExpressionLanguage

Filesystem

Form

FrameworkBundle

HttpFoundation

HttpClient

HttpKernel

Lock

Mailer

Messenger

Mime

MonologBridge

PropertyAccess

ProxyManagerBridge

Routing

Security

SecurityBundle

Serializer

Templating

Translation

TwigBundle

Validator

VarDumper

VarExporter

Workflow

Yaml

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UPGRADE FROM 6.4 to 7.0

Table of Contents

Cache

Config

Console

DependencyInjection

DoctrineBridge

DomCrawler

ExpressionLanguage

Filesystem

Form

FrameworkBundle

HttpFoundation

HttpClient

HttpKernel

Lock

Mailer

Messenger

Mime

MonologBridge

PropertyAccess

ProxyManagerBridge

Routing

Security

SecurityBundle

Serializer

Templating

Translation

TwigBundle

Validator

VarDumper

VarExporter

Workflow

Yaml