3.7.0

Release Notes for 3.7.0

Feature release (minor)

3.7.0

• Total issues resolved: 3
• Total pull requests resolved: 35
• Total contributors: 13

New Features

• 12565: Allow configuring foreign key names thanks to @greg0ire
• 12563: Make default string length configurable in SchemaTool thanks to @garak and @beberlei
• 12561: Add OffsetPaginator and align CursorPaginator on an immutable page API thanks to @seb-jean
• 12541: Allow NULL literal in SELECT and CASE expressions thanks to @HypeMC
• 12525: [RFC] Expose EntityRepository::expr() thanks to @VincentLanglet
• 12432: Allow defining explicit identifier position thanks to @HypeMC
• 12364: Add cursor-based pagination thanks to @seb-jean
• 12210: [GH-12209] Using native lazy objects for partial objects thanks to @beberlei

Improvements

• 12560: Check useDbalEditorApi once in getSchemaFromMedata() thanks to @greg0ire
• 12536: Validate ManyToOne associations used as sole identifiers thanks to @JamBalaya56562
• 12535: Reject IDENTITY() on inverse-side associations thanks to @JamBalaya56562
• 12528: Avoid adding then dropping FK constraints thanks to @greg0ire
• 12500: Bail out early while running unneeded command thanks to @greg0ire
• 12479: [CursorPaginator] Harden against security concerns thanks to @seb-jean and @beberlei
• 12404: [CursorPaginator] Various tweaks and improvements thanks to @seb-jean
• 12349: Remove unnecessary check thanks to @greg0ire
• 12341: Implement compatibility with collections 3 thanks to @greg0ire
• 12340: Add missing return type declaration thanks to @greg0ire
• 12249: Add dispatchPreFlushEvent() method and avoid calling getConnection() twice thanks to @carferdas

Deprecations

• 12591: Introduce PaginatorInterface::HINT_ENABLE_DISTINCT and use OffsetPaginator in tests thanks to @seb-jean
• 12564: Deprecate JoinColumns thanks to @greg0ire
• 12548: Make LockMode::NONE a no-op thanks to @ruudk
• 12543: Deprecate TypedExpression in favor of ExpressionWithReturnType thanks to @GromNaN
• 12454: Allow usage of SortDirection with attribute and PHP drivers thanks to @greg0ire
• 12449: Allow SortDirection usage inside OrderBy and QueryBuilder thanks to @greg0ire
• 12362: Leverage event manager interfaces thanks to @greg0ire

Static Analysis

• 12397: Mark callable parameters with @param-immediately-invoked-callable thanks to @janedbal

Bugfixes

• 12550: Prepare making the DBAL editor API opt-in thanks to @greg0ire

• 12485: [CursorPaginator] Fix cursor building when ordering by ManyToOne association thanks to @seb-jean

• 12448: Address order enum deprecation thanks to @greg0ire

• 12489: UnitOfWork should run UPDATES in a specific order to avoid ShareLock deadlocks thanks to @d-ph

• 12460: SchemaValidator should report inverseBy targeting a different entity thanks to @nikophil

Test Suite

• 12554: Use the DBAL editor API in our test suite thanks to @greg0ire
• 12471: Use SortDirection in tests thanks to @greg0ire
• 12464: Fix newly-introduced deprecated calls thanks to @greg0ire