This new major version introduces a number of breaking changes; see the upgrade guide for more details.

Added support for Symfony 4
Added .gitattributes to make package slimmer
Applied declare(strict_types=1) everywhere
Added append fixture feature on LoadFixtues
Added annotation [@DisableDatabaseCache](https://github.com/DisableDatabaseCache) to disable database cache for a test

Switched to PSR-4 dir structure with src and tests subfolders
Require at least PHP 7.1
Require at least Symfony 3.4
Compatibility to DoctrineFixtureBundle at least 3.0
Compatibility to Twig at least 2.0
Compatibility to JackalopeDoctrineDBAL at least 1.3
Switched from nelmio/alice to theofidry/alice-data-fixtures (which uses nelmio/alice 3)
The fixtures should be declared as services and tagged with doctrine.fixture.orm. It's done automatically if you use autoconfigure
The runCommand method now returns a Symfony CommandTester instance instead of the command output.

Drop support for Symfony 2.x
Removed HTML5 validation functionality
The WebTestCase::getKernelClass() function is dropped, since we migrated from KERNEL_DIR to KERNEL_CLASS constant to support Symfony 4

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