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This week, the upcoming Symfony 2.5 version deprecated the Apache router, the form debugger added a new storage and the security component added support for named password encoders. In addition, Symfony Live Paris 2014, the first official Symfony conference of this year, was announced for the 7th and 8th of April.

Symfony organizes a community initiative to improve its internationalization by translating it into dozens of languages.

This week, Symfony2 master branch added the ability to change encoding options for JsonResponse, improved the way form errors are handled, and allowed the Console component to set a different default command. In addition, the Symfony repository surpassed the 10,000th issue + pull request milestone. Lastly, Bernhard Schussek started drafting the new Symfony backwards compatibility promise, which sets the foundations for the strict Symfony 2.x policy regarding BC.

This week, Symfony 2.3.9 and 2.4.1 maintenance versions were published. Meanwhile, the form debugger was greatly improved, the Twig commands were decoupled from the framework and the Finder component added GLOB_BRACE support.

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This week, Symfony development activity focused on minor fixes and improvements, Twig continued working on HHVM compatibility and Silex allowed to use strings instead of constants for Monolog logging levels. Meanwhile, a lot of new discussions and proposals were initiated at the repository, such as simplifying the addition of request formats, improving the form debugger and decoupling Twig commands from Symfony.

This week, the Symfony community attention focused on the aftermath of the great SymfonyCon 2013 conference and the financing round announced by the parent company of Symfony.

A week now since the SymfonyCon took place for the first time ever. For this first edition, Warsaw welcomed us for an entire week of Symfony! It was a real pleasure to see you all there and we really hope you had a great time with us.

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