Framework Documentation - Console Package

Updating from v2 to v3

Release 3.0.0 raises the PHP requirement and moves to Symfony Console 6. No public or protected
method signature changed in this package, but the Symfony jump brings its own requirements.

At a glance

Minimum supported PHP version raised

All Framework packages now require PHP 8.1 or newer.

Symfony Console 6

The jump from 5.x to 6.x is the substantive part of this upgrade. Symfony 6 added return types
throughout, which affects your command classes:

// Symfony 5 style
protected function configure()
protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)

// Symfony 6
protected function configure(): void
protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): int

In this package commands extend Joomla\Console\Command\AbstractCommand and implement
doExecute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): int, which already carried the return
type — so commands written against AbstractCommand need no change. Commands extending Symfony's
own Command directly do.

symfony/error-handler became a direct dependency; it renders uncaught throwables.

No API changes in this package

Application, AbstractCommand, the loader, the descriptors, the helper and the event classes have
the same signatures in 3.0.0 as in 2.0.0.

Dependency changes