Commands broken with symfony/console 7.4

[berbeflo]

Laravel Version

12.18.0

PHP Version

8.4.6

Database Driver & Version

No response

Description

In this commit symfony deprecated namespace Symfony\Component\Console\Application::add and replaced all calls with a call to the new method addCommand.

Illuminate\Console\Application extends Symfony\Component\Console\Application and overrides add. In add the command's method setLaravel is called if the command is an instance of Illuminate\Console\Command.

What now happens: addCommand is called, so the method setLaravel is never called. This leads to a null pointer exception in Illuminate\Console\Command::run.

My current workaround is to require version 7.3 of symfony/console. But I don't think, that's a long term solution.

Steps To Reproduce

composer update
php artisan route:list

[crynobone]

Symfony 7.4 hasn't been released yet and will only be stable in November 2025. Restrict your installation to use stable releases.