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Symfony 1.3 development got a boost this week with the removal of three configuration options and tweaks to the autoloading mechanism. All the symfony books were updated with fixes, specially the Jobeet tutorial. In addition, symfony 1.0.20 was released this week.

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This week symfony 2 showed a sneak peek of its upcoming features and components. Meanwhile, symfony 1.x development activity maintains focused on plugins, with 8 new plugins introduced and 30 plugins updated. Symfony popularity continues soaring as dozens of posts are published each week all around the blogosphere.

A question came across the mailing list today that provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the flexibility of the symfony 1.2 routing system.

Symfony project showed this week a very intense activity with nearly 200 changesets committed and 72 errors fixed/closed. Documentation was heavily updated with new original contents and tons of translations. Lastly, 12 new plugins were introduced and 20 plugins were updated.

We are always looking for ways to enhance the developers experience with the symfony documentation. Today, we have added OpenSearch support for the API.

Today, I have added more than 40 pages in two new appendices to the forms book: one about Widgets and the other about Validators.

Symfony developers announced this week that another top 100 website is powered by symfony. Adding up the four biggest symfony applications, more than 220 million people enjoy symfony powered websites.

In this tutorial I would like to show how you can add flexibility to your symfony applications using the symfony built-in event system.

If you want to influence the symfony 1.3 features, you still have one week left as the "Feature brainstorming" phase ends at the end of the month.