Flow bugfix releases: 5.3.24, 6.0.21, 6.1.15, 6.2.10, 6.3.7 & 7.0.4

[aberl (Alexander Berl)]

I tagged new bugfix releases for Flow yesterday. They fix a whole bunch of bugs:

• BUGFIX: Allow non-standard status codes in redirects
• BUGFIX: Allow Doctrine object manager to appear as different class names
• BUGFIX: Anonymize authorization header in rendered request headers
• BUGFIX: Outdated class name in @covers annotation
• BUGFIX: Ignore ProxyClass in code coverage of phpunit
• BUGFIX: WithAddedHeader does not overwrite existing header
• BUGFIX: Check for valid session identifier before accessing the cache
• BUGFIX: Fix ResourceTypeConverter for “data” import
• BUGFIX: Don’t validate transient properties during persistence
• BUGFIX: Prevent wrong code replacements in migration
• BUGFIX: Array.filter fails with empty callback

Most notably, a database connection is no longer established if the request has nothing to persist. This should slightly improve performance for requests that do not involve persisted entities and also for safe requests (GET) that did not change any entities.

• TASK: Avoid opening database connection if nothing to persist

On top, this release adds support for PHP8 to 7.0.4:

• TASK: Add basic support for PHP8

This makes our code base work on PHP 8. It does not yet add support for PHP 8 features.

You will likely still be able to use e.g. promoted properties, null-safe operators or match-expressions, but union types and attributes will come with the next minor version earliest. Check out https://github.com/neos/flow-development-collection/pull/2404 for a preview.

The released versions are:

• Flow - 5.3.24 ChangeLog
• Flow - 6.0.21 ChangeLog
• Flow - 6.1.15 ChangeLog
• Flow - 6.2.10 ChangeLog
• Flow - 6.3.7 ChangeLog
• Flow - 7.0.4 ChangeLog

Thanks to those who contributed!