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Symfony2 suffered this week a huge internal refactoring: two of the main namespaces were renamed (Symfony\Framework to Symfony\Bundle and Symfony\Foundation to Symfony\Framework) and a new HttpFoundation component was introduced. Meanwhile, Symfony2 documentation continued growing and totalizes 30 brief documents and guides.

The Symfony2 documentation grows every day.

After the great success of the first Symfony2 online conference, this week the development activity has been focused on its code refactorization. Dependency Injection has been completely refactored, and unit tests, the routing resources and some Foundation files have been reorganized.

This patch addresses a security vulnerability in the view cache that was introduced with symfony 1.3 and 1.4.

The Symfony2 Online Conference gathered this week hundreds of symfony developers. The introduction of a brand new form framework and its validation component was the first big announcement of the conference. In addition, Symfony2 unveiled its killer feature, a built-in HTTP accelerator that greatly improves the performance of Symfony2 applications. Lastly, the 30,000th changeset of symfony 1.x branch repository was committed this week.

The slides are now available.

Talk about Symfony2, not Symfony 2... notice the lack of space between Symfony and 2. Read why this matters a lot.

Profiler bundle was the most updated component of Symfony 2 during this week. Meanwhile, lots of symfony developers are still intrigued by the mysterious killer feature of Symfony 2, which will be unveiled at the State of Symfony 2 online conference. Remember that you can still register for the conference and you can also attend or organize a conference hub.

One of the problems we've been hearing about with the symfony plugin system was the fact that it was hard to see if there was still active development being done on a plugin. There was no easy way until now for developers to communicate to users that a plugin has been deprecated. This is now changed: Plugins can now be deprecated.

Symfony 2 development was focused this week on its bundles, mostly WebBundle (it added the init:application command), TwigBundle (synced with the latest updates of Twig) and PropelBundle. Meanwhile, symfony community continued prepping conference hubs for the upcoming Symfony 2 online conference.