For the third year in a row, the [Symfony Camp UA conference](http://2011.symfonycamp.org.ua/) is being organized in Kiev, Ukraine. This year, the conference will take place on October 29. [Registration](http://bit.ly/qKJUcD) is free!
October 4, 2011
#Community
This week Symfony2 committed the first changes related with the new composer component, a package manager that will greatly simplify bundle installation in symfony projects. In addition, parameters.ini configuration file was replaced by parameters.yml, a new mandatory checklist for pull requests was published and the documentation of Twig was significantly improved.
October 3, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony2 published this week its 2.0.3 maintenance version, which fixed some minor bugs. Meanwhile, 2.1 branch added cool new tweaks and features, such as a new validator for user password, the ability to set different options for repeating fields and PHP 5.4 traits support for ClassLoader. Lastly, symfony developers gathered this week for another symfony meeting and discussed lots of interesting topics.
September 27, 2011
#A week of symfony
Only one month to go: for the third time, the Symfony Day will take place in
Cologne.
September 24, 2011
#Community
Symfony 1.4.14 was released this week, containing several enhancements and fixes proposed by community members. Meanwhile, the official Symfony2 repository surpassed the 3,000th watcher milestone.
September 19, 2011
#A week of symfony
Last week, Tuesday September 6th, the first and inaugural social meetup of the Symfony User Group in Los Angeles happened. The meetup was organized and sponsorized by the awesome guys at ChowNow and UseAllFive, who provided the venue, chow and drinks! Some managers of the Los Angeles PHP User Group joined the party.
September 13, 2011
#Community