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Learn how to go beyond keywords! In “Semantic Search: From Keywords to Intent with Symfony AI”, Stiven Llupa, Senior Development Lead at SensioLabs Deutschland, explains how to leverage RAG approaches, open-source LLMs, and Symfony AI to build semantic search that understands intent.

Get ready for a thought-provoking deep dive at SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 this November! In “Geopolitics of Code: How You Can Build the Future of Data and AI”, Brice Blondiau and Jean Philippe Balanca explore how technical decisions in data and AI are shaped by — and shape — global geopolitical forces. This session uncovers how Symfony can support resilient, ethical, and future-ready architectures in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Discover a new talk at SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025! In “Cloud-Agnostic AI Agents with Clean Architecture”, Alejandro REYES AMARO shows how to build portable, compliant, future-ready AI agents using Clean Architecture and RAG.

Symfony 7.4 introduces new PHP attributes that let you extend validation and serialization metadata for classes you do not control.

New talk: Explore how Symfony powers Gally, an AI product discovery tool. In “Inside Gally: Building an AI Product Discovery Tool with Symfony” at SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025, Romain Ruaud will show how to abstract search configuration, generate APIs automatically, and integrate vector and conversational search for robust, modular, future-ready applications. #SymfonyConAmsterdam2025

Symfony 7.4 replaces the fluent PHP config with a new array-based format with full autocompletion, static analysis, and dynamically generated array shapes.

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This week, Symfony released maintenance versions 5.4.50, 6.4.29, and 7.3.7 to address a potential security vulnerability. Meanwhile, we continued polishing the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 releases and published 7.4.0 RC1 and 8.0.0 RC1. Finally, we shared new details about several of the talks planned for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.

Join SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 and catch “The CI/CD Pipeline in 2025: GitOps, AI, and Zero-Trust in Action” by Hervé Leclerc, CTO at Smile, to discover the future of CI/CD with GitOps, AI, and Zero-Trust security.