4.4 Roadmap

4.4 will be backwards compatible with other 4.x releases. It will introduce new features and deprecations as we continue to develop 5.x at the same time.

Minimum PHP Version

Because both PHP 7.2 and 7.3 will be end of life by the release of 4.4, the minimum supported PHP version will be raised to 7.4

Controller

• Build replacement for RequestHandlerComponent. Focus on view swapping behavior as request parsing and the various isXyz() methods have already been removed. (Possible reference: https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle/blob/3.x/Resources/doc/format_listener.rst)

Database / ORM

• Add separate read/write connections
• Add deprecation for loadModel()