Symfony Blog
All about Symfony releases, new Symfony features, and other important announcements
The Symfony Console component is our second most popular component, with more than 1 million monthly downloads and more than 2,300 projects depending on it. In Symfony 2.8 we extended its capabilities with some new features.
November 13, 2015
#Living on the edge
LDAP is used by lots of companies as a centralized repository for user information, including their security roles, and as an authentication service. That's why Symfony 2.8 includes a new LDAP component which provides seamless integration with the Symfony Security component.
November 11, 2015
#Living on the edge
In Symfony 2.8, thanks to the new service auto wiring feature, you can skip the definition of some services used as constructor arguments and let the service container create those services for you.
November 9, 2015
#Living on the edge
This week, the stabilization work on Symfony 2.8 continued in preparation of its imminent first beta release. Besides, the well-known ContainerAware class was deprecated in favor of ContainerAwareTrait and Symfony added a new micro kernel. Meanwhile, a lot of SymfonyCon related news were announced: there will be a live streaming ticket, the second edition of the Symfony Business Awards will be held and a Symfony edition of the PHP elePHPant will be available.
November 8, 2015
#A week of symfony
The very first Symfony ElePHPants have arrived!
November 6, 2015
#Community
In 2013, we celebrated the first edition of the Symfony Business Awards, which recognize the best business websites, applications and projects developed with Symfony. Due to the success and appreciation of these awards, we've decided to organize the second edition of the Symfony Business Awards.
November 5, 2015
#Community
#Symfony
A new security-related component called Guard aims at simplifying the authentication security subsystem. This radical new approach is based on creating just one PHP class that implements GuardAuthenticatorInterface.
November 4, 2015
#Living on the edge
Another SymfonyLive is over - our 4th installment in Berlin! We had a blast this year, with over 350 people attending. We've expanded our schedule to accommodate two consecutive workshop days, and continued our concept of offering both Symfony-related and general workshops.
November 3, 2015
#Community
#Conferences
SymfonyCon Paris 2015 will have its own online live stream!
November 2, 2015
#Community
This week, Symfony 2.3.34 and 2.7.6 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the Symfony Live San Francisco conference took place with great success. Lastly, the SymfonyCon Paris 2015 conference announced a new track to its schedule, giving you more reasons to attend the biggest event in Symfony's history.
November 1, 2015
#A week of symfony