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A look at 20 years of Symfony through code statistics, revealing how contributions, complexity, and long-term design choices shaped the framework.

At SymfonyCon 2025, we wanted to celebrate Symfony’s 20th anniversary with a live, collective experience: 1200 developers holding up their phones while we lit up their screens in real time from the stage. To make that work reliably, we combined Symfony/PHP-FPM for the application logic with a dedicated Mercure/FrankenPHP setup for long‑lived connections, giving us both robustness and massive concurrency. This post walks through the architecture and lessons learned from turning a “simple” colored screen idea into a live demo that worked flawlessly in front of a full conference hall.

This week, Symfony proudly celebrates 20 incredible years of innovation, friendship, and open-source passion — join us in reliving the memories and thanking everyone who made this journey possible at symfony.com/20years

Next week in Lille! The API Platform Conference (Sept 18–19) is the only event fully dedicated to the framework & its ecosystem: 30+ talks, 2 days, and 7 Symfony Core Team members on stage at EuraTechnologies 🚀

Today, we are announcing that Symfony teamed up with The PHP Foundation, and Anthropic to launch the official MCP SDK. Our goal is a framework-agnostic, production-ready library the entire PHP ecosystem can rely on.

All of Ryan Weaver's Symfony conference talks are now available to watch for free. These sessions highlight his unique teaching style and contributions to the Symfony community.

20 years of Symfony, now in a comic book. Join us in bringing it to life! ✨📖

We are deeply saddened to share the news that Ryan Weaver — a cherished member of the Symfony Community, a tireless educator, and a friend to so many — passed away after a long and courageous battle with brain cancer.

Join the Symfony AI Hackathon on Friday, 12th of September, online or in-person in Berlin.

Join Nicolas Grekas, Imen Ezzine and Asma Ayari at the next Symfony Meetup in Tunis on April 12!