Release Notes

• Flow 9.0
  • Flow 9.0 also increases the minimal required PHP version to 8.2.
  • New Features
    • !!! FEATURE: Dispatcher psr overhaul
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    • !!! FEATURE: update to doctrine/dbal version 3
    • !!! FEATURE: ViewInterface returns PSR StreamInterface
    • !!! FEATURE: WIP Dispatcher and controller return ActionResponse (simpler controller pattern)
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    • FEATURE: Add CLDR-based date, time, and datetime formatting methods with “formatLength”
    • FEATURE: Add depth option to configuration:show
    • FEATURE: Introduce –help flag option for existing CLI commands
    • FEATURE: Introduce EEL tracer for handling Neos9 deprecations
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    • FEATURE: Support doctrine/dbal 2.x and 3.x
    • FEATURE: Allow PositionalArraySorter to keep null values
    • FEATURE: Introduce PHP 8.2 DNF type support
    • FEATURE: Consider PHP attributes in proxy method building
    • FEATURE: Add FlowInjectCache Attribute / Annotation for property injection
    • FEATURE: introduce UriHelper to work with query parameters
    • FEATURE: Add FlowRoute Attribute/Annotation
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    • FEATURE: InjectConfiguration for constructor arguments
    • FEATURE: Introduce PHP 8.2 DNF type support
    • FEATURE: Separate RouteConfiguration from Router
    • FEATURE: Consider PHP attributes in proxy method building
    • FEATURE: Add FlowInjectCache Attribute / Annotation for property injection
    • FEATURE: Add more information for object arguments in debugging
    • 9.0 FEATURE: Add unique flowQuery operation
    • FEATURE: Add getAccessorByPath to NeosUtilityArrays for type safe accessing of array values
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    • FEATURE: Exclude classes from constructor autowiring
    • FEATURE: Replace self with static in proxy classes
    • FEATURE: Support private constructors in proxy classes
    • FEATURE: Add support for readonly classes
    • Upgrading existing code
    • !!! FEATURE: Dispatcher psr overhaul
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    • !!! FEATURE: update to doctrine/dbal version 3
    • !!! FEATURE: ViewInterface returns PSR StreamInterface
    • !!! FEATURE: WIP Dispatcher and controller return ActionResponse (simpler controller pattern)
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• Flow 8.3
  • New Features
    • FEATURE: Add Type.debugType to Type EelHelper
    • FEATURE: Provide central PsrHttpFactory that implements all interfaces from PSR 17
    • FEATURE: Add cache lifetime to routing MatchResult and ResolveResult DTOs in addition to cache tags
    • FEATURE: Add new validators MediaType, FileExtension and FileSize
    • FEATURE: Introduce session:collectgarbage command and move the garbage collection from session to sessionManager
  • Upgrade Instructions
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
• Flow 8.2
  • New Features
    • FEATURE: Iterable multi cache backend
    • FEATURE: Produce static functions in CompilingEvaluator
    • FEATURE: Skip unhealthy cache backends in MultiBackend
  • Upgrade Instructions
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
• Flow 8.1
  • New Features
    • FEATURE: Add method askQuestion to console output that accepts a Question object
    • FEATURE: typed env variable replacements in Settings
    • FEATURE: Support object serialization without var annotation
  • Upgrade Instructions
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
• Flow 8.0
  • New Features
    • !!! FEATURE: Introduce flushByTags to taggable cache backends
    • !!! FEATURE: Implement Psr-18 HTTPClient
    • FEATURE: Type declaration support for property injection
    • FEATURE: Extend DenormalizingObjectConverter to support fromBoolean and fromInteger
    • FEATURE: Optimised Redis cache backend
    • FEATURE: Create ValueObjects from simple types by calling from$TYPE for objects and JsonArray properties
    • FEATURE: Implement flushByTags for the PDO cache backend
    • FEATURE: flushByTags for the file based cache backend
    • FEATURE: Add methods getSimpleCache PSR-16 and getCacheItemPool PSR-6 to the cacheManager
  • Upgrade Instructions
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
  • Potentially breaking changes
    • !!! FEATURE: Introduce flushByTags to taggable cache backends
    • !!! FEATURE: Implement Psr-18 HTTPClient
• Flow 7.3
  • New Features
    • FEATURE: Make backtrace code expandable with HTML5 <summary> element
    • FEATURE: Add case-insensitive filter operators for FlowQuery
    • FEATURE: CLI command to list all connected signals with their slots
  • Upgrade Instructions
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
• Flow 7.2
  • New Features
    • !!! FEATURE: Extensible configuration loaders
    • FEATURE: Preserve class and method doc blocks
    • FEATURE: Allow validation of dynamic argument types
    • FEATURE: CLI parse array type controller arguments
    • FEATURE: Update documentation for new configuration loader
    • FEATURE: Support PHP8 attributes
    • FEATURE: I18n.translate() now accept $source to contain dots instead of only a path to the translation file
  • Upgrade Instructions
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
  • Potentially breaking changes
    • !!! FEATURE: Extensible configuration loaders
    • !!! BUGFIX: Avoid broken proxy docblocks
• Flow 7.1
  • New Features
    • !!! FEATURE: Enable URL Rewriting by default
    • FEATURE: Allow flushing caches by compiled classes
    • FEATURE: Make rendering of request in exception log configurable
    • FEATURE: Cli ProgressBar is public accessible
    • FEATURE: Add fusion template support
    • FEATURE: Add rfc6750 bearer token
    • FEATURE: Introduce ability to add Fluid namespaces via configuration
    • FEATURE: Expose array_values() in Array eelHelper
  • Upgrade Instructions
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
  • Potentially breaking changes
    • !!! FEATURE: Enable URL Rewriting by default
    • TASK: Make ActionResponse::getContentType non-nullable
• Flow 7.0
  • New Features
    • PSR-15 compatible middleware chain
    • Extended Routing
    • DBAL connection factory
    • StaticResource Eel Helper
    • Human readable labels and descriptions for Roles & Privileges
    • Unidirectional OneToMany relations
    • Removed Fluid as dependency
  • Upgrade Instructions
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
  • Potentially breaking changes
    • Removed PHP classes
    • HTTP ComponentChain and ComponentContext
      • Example 1: Tweak the response
      • Example 2: Interrupt the chain
      • Example 3: Communicate between components
        • Behavioral changes
    • Relative position to non-existing key in PositionalArraySorter throws exception
    • Cookie SameSite attribute
    • Doctrine Migrations
    • ValueObjects are embedded by default
    • Type declarations in interfaces
    • Remove neos/fluid-adaptor as required package
    • Remove custom FluidAdaptor Exceptions on invalid ArgumentDefinition
    • Raise minimum PHP version to 7.3
    • Access Route Parameters when resolving routes
• Flow 6.2
  • Upgrade Instructions
    • Upgrading your Packages
      • Upgrading existing code
        • Inside core:migrate
  • What has changed
    • FEATURE: Configurable UsernamePassword fields and UsernamePasswordTokeninterface
    • FEATURE: Array Debugger tolerates iterables
    • FEATURE: Improve 304 response handling
    • FEATURE: Virtual Object Configuration
    • FEATURE: Add EEL Helper File.exists(filename)
    • FEATURE: Allow configuring static factory methods in Objects.yaml
    • FEATURE: Run garbage collection of configured caches
    • FEATURE: Resolve authentication token by simple name
    • FEATURE: Emit a signal when view is resolved
• Flow 5.3
  • Add methods csrfToken, isAuthenticated and hasAccess to Security EelHelper
  • Add format method to String EEL Helper
  • Make recursion limit for the debugger configurable via settings
  • Potentially breaking changes (unplanned extensibility)
  • Introduce ActionResponse in preparation for clean PSR-7
  • Deprecate PackageManagerInterface
  • Upgraded our internal testing suite to latest neos/behat version
• Flow 5.0
• Upgrade Instructions
  • Upgrading your Packages
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
• What has changed
  • !!!TASK: Change default charset and collation to utf8mb4
  • !!! TASK: Remove deprecated cache parts in Flow
  • !!!TASK: Safe trusted proxies default value
  • TASK: Update to Doctrine DBAL 2.7 and ORM 2.6
  • FEATURE: AOP for final methods
  • FEATURE: Add Forwarded Header support
  • !!! TASK: Remove deprecated ``ValidationResultsViewHelper``
  • !!! TASK: Remove deprecated MediaType handling methods in Request
  • !!! TASK: Remove deprecated unversioned ``XliffParser``
  • TASK: Remove deprecated ``RawViewHelper``
  • !!! TASK: Remove ``getTemplateVariableContainer`` method
  • !!!TASK: Only scan Private/Translations for available locales
  • FEATURE: Add PSR-6 and PSR-16 support to cache framework
  • !!! FEATURE: PSR-3 Logging
  • !!! TASK: Cleanup in package management
  • FEATURE: Allow specifying a list of available Locales via settings
  • TASK: Update standalone Fluid to recent version
• Flow 4.3
• Upgrade Instructions
  • What has changed
  • !!! FEATURE: More extensible Routing
    • Routing Parameters
    • Extended URI matching
  • !!! FEATURE: Allow bypassing Flow class loader for performance
  • TASK: Split Flow Log to separate package
  • FEATURE: Add cookie support on curl request
  • FEATURE: PHP 7.2 compatibility
• Flow 4.2
  • Allow for dynamic label overrides
  • Add PSR-7 compatibility to HTTP stack
  • Add Date.formatCldr helper
  • Introduce ObjectAccess::instantiate
  • Add Eel String helper pregMatchAll
  • Allow Nullable action params to be annotated
  • Add range method to Eel Array-helper
  • Allow setting the package type when kickstarting a package
  • ViewHelper compilation for increased speed
• Flow 4.1
• Upgrade Instructions
  • What has changed
    • Allow more flexible Doctrine Entity Manager configuration
    • Check for webserver group membership in file permission script
    • New wordCount Eel string helper
    • Kickstarter command to create XLIFF translation files
    • Unknown properties for ObjectConverter are now skipped
    • Build environment overhaul
  • Upgrading your Packages
    • Upgrading existing code
• Flow 4.0
• Upgrade Instructions
  • What has changed
    • Namespace change
    • Fluid standalone
    • Make Cache FileBackends independent of external locks
    • Reuse join aliases on same property paths in QueryBuilder
    • Runtime evaluation of env and constants in Configuration
    • Scalar to object converter
    • Parse media types from file content
    • Extend AuthenticationManagerInterface with getter for providers
    • Array.flip() Eel helper
    • Support allowable tags in stripTags Eel String helper
    • Add String.pregSplit Eel helper
    • Internal TypeConverters
    • Allow property mapping of DateTimeImmutables
    • Support for protected static compiled methods
    • Dependency Injection and AOP for final classes
    • ViewConfiguration use only the settings of highest weighted request filter
    • Rename [TYPO3][Flow][Security][Authentication]
    • Remove deprecated ResourcePublisher and pointer
    • Remove deprecated support for relative uri paths
    • Remove deprecated support of temporary path setting
    • Remove deprecated EarlyLogger
    • Remove deprecated PropertyMappingConfigurationBuilder
    • Remove deprecated getClassTag and constants
    • Remove relations to party in Account and Security\\Context
    • Remove deprecated properties and methods in Argument
    • Remove deprecated class ResourcePublisher
    • Rename object and resource
    • Remove internal properties request and response from RequestHandler
    • Remove “fallback” password hashing strategy
    • Remove deprecated setting injection
    • Remove deprecated TypeHandling::hex2bin method
    • Remove deprecated StringHelper::match method
    • Remove deprecated Http\\Message class
    • Remove deprecated TranslationHelper::translateById
    • Remove deprecated redirectToReferringRequest
    • Remove deprecated Route::getMatchingUri
    • Remove output related methods from AbstractMigration
    • Remove deprecated methods from TemplateView
  • Upgrading your Packages
    • Upgrading existing code
      • Inside core:migrate
  • Upgrading the database schema
  • Famous last words