Symfony Blog

The Symfony project relies on volunteer efforts from many people around the world. I'm very grateful to everyone who contributes to the Symfony project but unfortunately, not all contributors are equal. The contributors who write code are the most well-known but how can we also reward all the other community members who dedicate some of their precious time to the Symfony project?

This week, Symfony 2.0.5 was released, fixing tens of minor bugs and introducing some tweaks (view changelog). Meanwhile, in the last weekly IRC meeting, it was announced a big push for Symfony2 components, including a revamped documentation.

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Symfony 1.4.15 was released this week, fixing a few bugs and demonstrating the strong support of symfony 1.4.x branch until its late 2012 deadline. Meanwhile, Symfony2 added a matcher and a command that help debugging router matching problems.

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As of today, using symfony1 and git together becomes much more easier as there is now and official symfony1 Git repository.

This week, Symfony2 added a stopwatch to profile code. The first use of this stopwatch is the new timeline panel in the web profiler. All these new features were introduced during the last Symfony Day 2011 conference.

This week, all the Symfony2 components were included in packagist.org, a public repository for Composer, the package manager that soon will be used on Symfony2. Meanwhile, on the master branch of Symfony2 repository all the HttpKernel event listeners were updated to implement EventSubscriberInterface and the official repository surpassed the 800 forks milestone.

Symfony 2.0.4 version was released this week, maintaining the fast pace of Symfony2 upgrades. In addition, the independent security audit of Symfony2 and Twig code was disclosed. Lastly, an important, and backwards incompatible change, was committed to the Symfony2 master branch: locale management was moved from the Session class to the Request class (see details).

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