This week, Symfony 6.4.35, 7.4.7, and 8.0.7 maintenance versions were released. In addition, we introduced featured listings for Symfony job postings. Lastly, we published AI skills for Symfony UX.
March 8, 2026
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This week, we celebrated the 1,000th issue of the "A Week of Symfony" blog series.
March 1, 2026
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This week, development activity focused on misc fixes and improvements across all maintained Symfony branches. In addition, we published more information about the SymfonyLive Berlin 2026 and SymfonyLive Paris 2026 conferences.
February 22, 2026
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This week, development activity was very intense for the upcoming Symfony 8.1 release, which introduced new features across the framework. Meanwhile, we shared more details about the upcoming SymfonyLive Paris 2026 conference. Finally, SymfonyCasts announced a new course about Symfony Forms.
February 15, 2026
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This week, the upcoming Symfony 8.1 development activity focused on controllers and attributes. In attributes, we added features like support for "this" variable in IsGranted attribute and support of expressions in MapRequestPayload validation groups. Controllers added features to expose controller metadata throughout the request lifecycle, dispatch events named after controller attributes, and new methods to evaluate expressions or closures in controller attributes.
February 8, 2026
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This week, development activity focused on adding new features to the upcoming Symfony 8.1 version. Meanwhile, we published 5.4.51, 6.4.33, 7.3.11, 7.4.5, and 8.0.5 versions to address a potential security vulnerability. Finally, we published an article about hardening Symfony with recent security improvements.
February 1, 2026
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This week, Symfony celebrated the Online January 2026 conference. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 8.1 version added support for persistent cURL handles in HttpClient, enabled mocking non-shared services in tests, and updated ContainerConfigurator to allow excluding items when importing services. Lastly, Twig 3.23 was released with new operators and destructuring support.
January 25, 2026
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This week, Symfony development activity focused on improving the HTTP Cache attribute and making some changes to controller event attributes. Meanwhile, we published more information about the upcoming SymfonyLive Paris 2026 conference. Lastly, we introduced the Symfony 8 certification.
January 18, 2026
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This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing bugs and updating tests to make them compatible with the newest PHPUnit versions. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 8.1 release started adding new features, such as a new attribute for interactive choice questions in console commands. Finally, Symfony UX introduced a new Toolkit package.
January 11, 2026
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This week, Symfony 6.4.31, 7.3.9, 7.4.3, and 8.0.3 maintenance versions were released. In addition, we published the 2025 year recap blog post to review the main Symfony activity during the last year.
January 4, 2026
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