Symfony 7.0: PHP 8.2 minimum and annotations finally gone
Symfony 7.0 landed November 29, 2023, same day as 6.4. The pattern holds: the X.0 release cuts deprecated code and raises the PHP floor. 7.0 requires PHP 8.2 and removes everything that 6.4 flagged as deprecated. The most visible removal: Doctrine annotations. @Route, @ORM\Column, @Assert - gone. Native PHP attributes have been the recommended approach since Symfony 5.2. 7.0 just makes it official. Attributes everywhere The migration from annotations to attributes is mostly mechanical: syntax changes from @ to #[], and the class references move from Doctrine annotation classes to PHP attribute classes: ...