Weekly roundup of Symfony development activity for March 9–15, 2026. Key highlights for the upcoming Symfony 8.1 include: deprecation of the erase_credentials security feature, a new #[MapRequestHeader] attribute in HttpKernel, a DeepCloner for copy-on-write-friendly deep cloning in VarExporter, and custom function support in the JsonPath component. The week saw 52 pull requests merged and 41 issues closed. Also covered: new SymfonyCasts videos on Doctrine inheritance, community blog posts on Symfony Messenger, passkeys, and the Scheduler component, plus upcoming events and job listings.
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