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# CHANGELOG

## 7.3

* Add `RunProcessMessage::fromShellCommandline()` to instantiate a Process via the fromShellCommandline method

## 7.1

* Add `Process::setIgnoredSignals()` to disable signal propagation to the child process

## 6.4

* Add `PhpSubprocess` to handle PHP subprocesses that take over the configuration from their parent
* Add `RunProcessMessage` and `RunProcessMessageHandler`

## 5.2.0

* added `Process::setOptions()` to set `Process` specific options
* added option `create_new_console` to allow a subprocess to continue to run after the main script exited, both on Linux and on Windows

## 5.1.0

* added `Process::getStartTime()` to retrieve the start time of the process as float

## 5.0.0

* removed `Process::inheritEnvironmentVariables()`
* removed `PhpProcess::setPhpBinary()`
* `Process` must be instantiated with a command array, use `Process::fromShellCommandline()` when the command should be parsed by the shell
* removed `Process::setCommandLine()`

## 4.4.0

* deprecated `Process::inheritEnvironmentVariables()`: env variables are always inherited.
* added `Process::getLastOutputTime()` method

## 4.2.0

* added the `Process::fromShellCommandline()` to run commands in a shell wrapper
* deprecated passing a command as string when creating a `Process` instance
* deprecated the `Process::setCommandline()` and the `PhpProcess::setPhpBinary()` methods
* added the `Process::waitUntil()` method to wait for the process only for a specific output, then continue the normal execution of your application

## 4.1.0

* added the `Process::isTtySupported()` method that allows to check for TTY support
* made `PhpExecutableFinder` look for the `PHP_BINARY` env var when searching the php binary
* added the `ProcessSignaledException` class to properly catch signaled process errors

## 4.0.0

* environment variables will always be inherited
* added a second `array $env = []` argument to the `start()`, `run()`, `mustRun()`, and `restart()` methods of the `Process` class
* added a second `array $env = []` argument to the `start()` method of the `PhpProcess` class
* the `ProcessUtils::escapeArgument()` method has been removed
* the `areEnvironmentVariablesInherited()`, `getOptions()`, and `setOptions()` methods of the `Process` class have been removed
* support for passing `proc_open()` options has been removed
* removed the `ProcessBuilder` class, use the `Process` class instead
* removed the `getEnhanceWindowsCompatibility()` and `setEnhanceWindowsCompatibility()` methods of the `Process` class
* passing a not existing working directory to the constructor of the `Symfony\Component\Process\Process` class is not supported anymore

## 3.4.0

* deprecated the ProcessBuilder class
* deprecated calling `Process::start()` without setting a valid working directory beforehand (via `setWorkingDirectory()` or constructor)

## 3.3.0

* added command line arrays in the `Process` class
* added `$env` argument to `Process::start()`, `run()`, `mustRun()` and `restart()` methods
* deprecated the `ProcessUtils::escapeArgument()` method
* deprecated not inheriting environment variables
* deprecated configuring `proc_open()` options
* deprecated configuring enhanced Windows compatibility
* deprecated configuring enhanced sigchild compatibility

## 2.5.0

* added support for PTY mode
* added the convenience method "mustRun"
* deprecation: Process::setStdin() is deprecated in favor of Process::setInput()
* deprecation: Process::getStdin() is deprecated in favor of Process::getInput()
* deprecation: Process::setInput() and ProcessBuilder::setInput() do not accept non-scalar types

## 2.4.0

* added the ability to define an idle timeout

## 2.3.0

* added ProcessUtils::escapeArgument() to fix the bug in escapeshellarg() function on Windows
* added Process::signal()
* added Process::getPid()
* added support for a TTY mode

## 2.2.0

* added ProcessBuilder::setArguments() to reset the arguments on a builder
* added a way to retrieve the standard and error output incrementally
* added Process:restart()

## 2.1.0

* added support for non-blocking processes (start(), wait(), isRunning(), stop())
* enhanced Windows compatibility
* added Process::getExitCodeText() that returns a string representation for the exit code returned by the process
* added ProcessBuilder


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