Symfony Station Communiqué — 28 October 2022. A look at Symfony, PHP, and Cybersecurity News!
Tags: symfony, php, drupal, cybersecurity
Published: 2022-10-28 23:32:15

This communiqué [originally appeared on Symfony Station](https://www.symfonystation.com/Symfony-Station-Communique-28-October-2022), your source for cutting-edge Symfony and PHP news.

Welcome to this week's Symfony Station Communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities. We also cover the cybersecurity world in detail. 

We were at Drupal services provider Acquia's Engage event this week, so this edition is slightly smaller than normal. While there, I had a great conversation with Drupal and Acquia founder Dries Buytaert. Look for developments from this in the future.

For now, take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.

As always, thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing [our earlier communiqué](https://www.symfonystation.com/Symfony-Station-Communique-21-October-2022) in their [Week of Symfony](https://symfony.com/blog/a-week-of-symfony-825-17-23-october-2022).

**My opinions will be in bold.** 

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## Symfony

As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.

Highlight -> “This week, Symfony 6.2 development activity focused on merging lots of new features that will be polished during the next weeks until the Symfony 6.2 release at the end of November 2022. We introduced a PSR-4 directory routing loader, a new hash_property_path option for password form fields, a better AST-based extractor for translations and support for friendsofphp/well-known-implementations in HttpClient.“

[A Week of Symfony #825 (17-23 October 2022)](https://symfony.com/blog/a-week-of-symfony-825-17-23-october-2022)

Symfony announced:

[SyliusCon - the 1st ever conference dedicated to Sylius](https://symfony.com/blog/syliuscon-the-1st-ever-conference-dedicated-to-sylius)

[New in Symfony 6.2: Built-in Cache, Security, Template and Doctrine Attributes](https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-6-2-built-in-cache-security-template-and-doctrine-attributes)

SymfonyCasts continues their PHPUnit course :

[This week on SymfonyCasts](https://5hy9x.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/mr/TyyReaCp15CJT_n-5ibyb01KM8WgxtAeVQZxwomCBX5WcmTVmO1AYoTPlQDF1fRUWCaFEM-k5QON0HG03uxZWUJHdLvNl2k2wAlP5zWzjGPRuoECzGl-5gFP53zTKOk9QDn-FZOhTY8)

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## Featured Item

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While it’s not the most important item in the Symfony world, our preview of SymfonyCon is one of the more timely.

### [A SymfonyCon Disneyland Paris 2022 preview: 2 workshops and 9 compelling sessions to eagerly anticipate](https://www.symfonystation.com/SymfonyCon-Disneyland-Paris-2022-Preview)

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### This Week

Aicha Fatrah shows us how to:

[Handle asynchronous tasks in Symfony with Messenger](https://aicha-fatrah.medium.com/handle-asynchronous-tasks-in-symfony-with-messenger-bbaf6ed36dbf)

Spacelift has a:

[YAML Tutorial : A Complete Language Guide with Examples](https://spacelift.io/blog/yaml)

### eCommerce

Drupal Commerce announces:

[Commerce Core 2.32 released October 19, 2022](https://drupalcommerce.org/blog/114249/commerce-core-232-released-october-19-2022)

### CMSs

Specbee shares:

[Configuring the Drupal 9 Metatag Module - A Brief Guide](https://www.specbee.com/blogs/configuring-drupal-9-metatag-module)

Droptica has:

[Streamlined Layout Builder. Overview of the Bootstrap Layout Builder Module](https://www.droptica.com/blog/streamlined-layout-builder-overview-bootstrap-layout-builder-module/)

Saira Bano explains:

[Drupal 9 Webform: Sending an email using the Drupal webform module and creating webform from scratch](https://medium.com/@noonarisaira/drupal-9-webform-sending-an-email-using-the-drupal-webform-module-and-creating-webform-from-765f3e61c64d)

Hashbangcode shows us:

[Drupal 9: Using Drupal Content Moderation Workflows To Create Promoted Pages](https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/drupal-9-using-drupal-content-moderation-workflows-create-promoted-pages)

Agiledrop takes a:

[Behind the scenes look into the Mercury Editor with Justin Toupin of Aten Design](https://www.agiledrop.com/blog/behind-scenes-look-mercury-editor-justin-toupin-aten-design)

**They are many cogent points in regard to the Drupal content experience in this article.**

### Previous Weeks

Opensense Labs provides:

[A guide to Drupal’s New Project Browser](https://opensenselabs.com/blog/articles/guide-project-browser)

StrangeBuzz explores:

[Validating your data fixtures with the Alice Symfony bundle](https://www.strangebuzz.com/en/blog/validating-your-data-fixtures-with-the-alice-symfony-bundle)

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## PHP

### This Week

Drupal services provider Acquia announces:

[Acquia Offers Long-Term Support for PHP 7.4](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221020005363/en/Acquia-Offers-Long-Term-Support-for-PHP-7.4)

Kamasu Paul looks at:

[PVM- The unpopular PHP Version Manager.](https://medium.com/@kamasupaul/pvm-the-unpopular-php-version-manager-44bb69df56eb)

Sticher shares:

[PHP 8.2 in 8 code blocks](https://stitcher.io/blog/php-82-in-8-code-blocks)

[Readonly classes in PHP 8.2](https://stitcher.io/blog/readonly-classes-in-php-82)

Dino Cajic continues his tutorial series:

[PHP — P83: MySQL DB Connection](https://blog.devgenius.io/php-p83-mysql-db-connection-8a34c4056863)

[PHP — P80: Final Upload Checks](https://dinocajic.medium.com/php-p80-final-upload-checks-8b24427fd928)

[PHP — P79: File Size Checks](https://blog.devgenius.io/php-p79-file-size-checks-e419bc6483bf)

Hasan Sheikh explains:

[Factory design pattern with a real-life example (PHP)](https://proghasan.medium.com/factory-design-pattern-with-real-life-example-php-e473f62870cc)

Farhan Tanvir is back with the:

[7 Most Starred PHP Libraries You Should Know](https://medium.com/geekculture/7-most-starred-php-libraries-you-should-know-78c2f9d2a9d8)

### Previous Weeks

Synolia reviews:

[[Forum PHP 2022] Conférence : Sortir du cadre](https://www.synolia.com/synolab/back-office/forum-php-2022-conference-sortir-du-cadre/)

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## Other

[Please visit our Support Ukraine page](https://www.symfonystation.com/Support-Ukraine) to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).

### The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery

The Conversation Canada reports:

[Citizens' social media can provide an antidote to propaganda and disinformation](https://theconversation.com/citizens-social-media-can-provide-an-antidote-to-propaganda-and-disinformation-192491)

CBS reports:

[New cybersecurity guide aimed at protecting nation's critical infrastructure released by CISA](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cybersecurity-guide-protect-infrastructure/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a)

VentureBeat reports:

[Ukraine cybersecurity head says cyberwar affects us all](https://venturebeat.com/security/ukraine-cybersecurity-head-speaks-at-blackberry-summit-says-cyberwar-affects-us-all/)

### The Evil Empire Strikes Back

NBC News reports:

[FBI warns Iranian hackers are active ahead of elections](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbi-warns-iranian-hackers-active-ahead-us-midterms-rcna53383)

Forbes reports:

[TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens](https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/10/20/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-american-user-data/?curator=MediaREDEF)

### Cybersecurity/Privacy

VentureBeat reports on:

[The rise of the enterprise browser and what’s next for secure browsing](https://venturebeat.com/security/the-rise-of-the-enterprise-browser-and-whats-next-for-secure-browsing/)

TechRepublic reports:

[2022 cyber threat report details growing trends](https://www.techrepublic.com/article/sonicwall-cyber-threat-report-trends/)

### More

Pantheon explains:

[How the 2010s Blew Up the Monolithic Website into Decoupled](https://pantheon.io/blog/how-2010s-blew-monolithic-website-decoupled-architectures)

While Nobert Northard says:

[Well Architected Monoliths are Okay](https://robertnorthard.com/devops-days-well-architected-monoliths-are-okay/)

**We agree.**

Infoworld says:

[Postgres is eating relational](https://www.infoworld.com/article/3677629/postgres-is-eating-relational.html)

Mickaël Andrieu shows us:

[How to use the SQL LEAD and LAG Functions with SQL](https://medium.com/learning-sql/how-to-use-the-sql-lead-and-lag-functions-with-sql-c2f609bd1ff2)

Smashing Mag explores:

[Futuristic CSS](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/10/futuristic-css/)

TechCrunch reports:

[Docker launches a first preview of its WebAssembly tooling](https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/24/docker-launches-a-first-preview-of-its-webassembly-support/)

Vercel is:

[Introducing Turbopack: Rust-based successor to Webpack](https://vercel.com/blog/turbopack)

The Guardian reports:

[The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/22/the-us-supreme-court-case-that-could-bring-the-tech-giants-to-their-knees)

**If only.**

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## Author

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### Reuben Walker

Founder
Symfony Station