core

• Performance improvement
• Swagger: Allow non-numeric IDs (such as UUIDs) in URLs
• Fix a bug when a composite identifier is missing
• ApiPlatform\Core\Bridge\Doctrine\Orm\Filter\OrderFilter::extractProperties now always return an array
• Fix recursive relations in the parser for NelmioApiDocBundle

See https://dunglas.fr/2017/06/api-platform-2-1-feature-walkthrough-create-blazing-fast-hypermedia-apis-generate-js-apps/

• Add a builtin HTTP cache invalidation system able to store all requests in Varnish (or any other proxy supporting cache tags) and purge it instantly when needed
• Add an authorization system configurable directly from the resource class
• Add support for subresources (like /posts/1/comments or /posts/1/comments/2
• Revamp the automatic documentation UI (upgraded to the React-based version of Swagger UI, added a custom stylesheet)
• Add a new filter to select explicitly which properties to serialize
• Add a new filter to choose which serialization group to apply
• Add a new filter to test if a property value exists or not
• Add support for OAuth 2 in the UI
• Add support for embedded fields
• Add support for customizable API resources folder's name
• Filters's ids now defaults to the Symfony's service name
• Add configuration option to define custom metadata loader paths
• Make Swagger UI compatible with a strict CSP environment
• Add nulls comparison to OrderFilter
• Add a flag to disable all request listeners
• Add a default order option in the configuration
• Allow to disable all operations using the XML configuration format and deprecate the previous format
• Allow upper cased property names
• Improve the overall performance by optimizing RequestAttributesExtractor
• Improve the performance of the filters subsystem by using a PSR-11 service locator and deprecate the FilterCollection class
• Add compatibility with Symfony Flex and Symfony 4
• Allow the Symfony Dependency Injection component to autoconfigure data providers and query extensions

• Add support for Symfony 3.3
• Disable the partial eager loading by default
• Fix support for ignored attributes in normalizers
• Specify the LEFT JOIN clause for filter associations
• Move the metadata from validator factory to the validator.xml file
• Throw an exception when the number of items per page is 0
• Improve the Continuous Integration process

• Leverage serialization groups to eager load data
• Fix the Swagger Normalizer to correctly support nested serialization groups
• Use strict types
• Get rid of the dependency to the Templating component
• Explicitly add missing dependency to PropertyAccess component
• Allow the operation name to be null in ResourceMetadata
• Fix an undefined index error occurring in some cases when using sub types
• Make the bundle working even when soft dependencies aren't installed
• Fix serialization of multiple inheritance child types
• Fix the priority of the FOSUSer's event listener
• Fix the resource class resolver with using \Traversable values
• Fix inheritance of property metadata for the Doctrine ORM property metadata factory
• EagerLoadingExtension: Disable partial fetching if entity has subclasses
• Refactoring and cleanup of the eager loading mechanism
• Fix the handling of composite identifiers
• Fix HAL normalizer when the context isn't serializable
• Fix some quality problems found by PHPStan

• [security] Hide error's message in prod mode when a 500 error occurs (Api Problem format)
• Fix sorting when eager loading is used
• Allow eager loading when using composite identifiers
• Don't use automatic eager loading when disabled in the config
• Use declare(strict_types=1) and improve coding standards
• Automatically refresh routes in dev mode when a resource is created or deleted

• Correct the XML Schema type generated for floats in the Hydra documentation

• Fix a bug when multiple filters are applied

• [security] Hide error's message in prod mode when a 500 error occurs
• Prevent duplicate data validation
• Fix filter Eager Loading
• Fix the Hydra documentation for ConstraintViolationList
• Fix some edge cases with the automatic configuration of Symfony
• Remove calls to each() (deprecated since PHP 7.2)
• Add a missing property in EagerLoadingExtension

• Fix a bug when handling invalid IRIs
• Allow to have a property called id even in JSON-LD
• Exclude static methods from AnnotationPropertyNameCollectionFactory
• Improve compatibility with Symfony 2.8

• Fix the support of the Symfony's serializer @MaxDepth annotation
• Fix property range of relations in the Hydra doc when an IRI is used
• Fix an error "api:swagger:export" command when decorating the Swagger normalizer
• Fix an an error in the Swagger documentation generator when a property has several serialization groups

• Various fixes related to automatic eager loading
• Symfony 3.2 compatibility

• Full refactoring
• Use PHP 7
• Add support for content negotiation
• Add Swagger/OpenAPI support
• Integrate Swagger UI
• Add HAL support
• Add API Problem support
• Update the Hydra support to be in sync with the last version of the spec
• Full rewrite of the metadata system (annotations, YAML and XML formats support)
• Remove the event system in favor of the builtin Symfony kernel's events
• Use the ADR pattern
• Fix a ton of issues
• ItemDataproviderInterface: fetchData is now in the context parameterer. getItemFromIri is now context aware 7f82fd7
• Constants for event's priorities 2e7b73e
• Properties mapping with XML/YAML is now possible ef5d037
• Ability to configure and match exceptions with an HTTP status code e9c1863
• Various fixes and improvements (SwaggerUI, filters, stricter property metadata)