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All about Symfony releases, new Symfony features, and other important announcements
A quick recap of the best new features introduced in Symfony 2.8 and available in Symfony 3.0.
March 16, 2016
#Living on the edge
This article is the last one in the "New in Symfony 2.8" series. It explains five minor but useful improvements introduced in several Symfony components.
March 15, 2016
#Living on the edge
This week, Symfony organized a Virtual Hack Day to bring in new contributors to the Symfony Community. This was also the opportunity to give a push to the pending issues and pull requests, because the upcoming Symfony 3.1 version will achieve the "feature freeze" status at the end of this month. Meanwhile, the SymfonyLive Paris 2016 conference announced its full program.
March 13, 2016
#A week of symfony
Tomorrow, Symfony will celebrate a new Virtual Hack Day, where developers from around the world gather online to contribute back to the project: fixing issues and proposing pull requests.
March 11, 2016
#Community
#Symfony
Symfony 2.8 introduces twelve small and decoupled polyfill components to "fill the gaps" of PHP 5.x versions and missing extensions. Now your applications can safely use PHP features and functions available in any PHP version.
March 10, 2016
#Living on the edge
Découvrez le programme complet du SymfonyLive Paris 2016.
Profitez du tarif early bird sur les formations de la conférence jusqu'au 11 mars, réservez vite votre combo formations !
March 9, 2016
#Community
#Conferences
In Symfony 2.8 we decided to simplify the DependencyInjection component by removing the concept of "scopes" and introducing the "shared" configuration option.
March 9, 2016
#Living on the edge
The VarDumper component provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable and a replacement for PHP's var_dump(). Symfony 2.8 added new casters to VarDumper, which are responsible to format the dumped information accordingly to their types.
March 8, 2016
#Living on the edge
We're hosting a virtual Symfony hack day on March 12th on IRC. If you're new to contributing, this is a perfect opportunity to start. If you're a pro, join us and get to work.
March 7, 2016
#Community