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php-8-1
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Upgrading to Symfony 6: the deprecations bill comes due
We went 4.4 LTS to 5.4 to 6.0 in six weeks. Clearing 214 deprecation messages on 5.4 was the actual work; the version bump took an afternoon. Notes on the security rewrite and two removals we missed.
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Enums replaced forty class constants
PHP 8.1 shipped on 25 November. A status class holding 41 constants, a static validator and a switch with a throwing default became one backed enum, and Doctrine still needed thirty lines of custom type to store it.