This week, the upcoming Symfony 8.1 version introduced ServicesBundle and ConsoleBundle as a first step in splitting FrameworkBundle into smaller, standalone bundles. In addition, we released Symfony Polyfill 1.34.0, which covers features from PHP 8.4, 8.5, and 8.6. Lastly, we published more information about talks and workshops at the SymfonyLive Berlin 2026 conference.

Symfony development highlights

This week, 28 pull requests were merged (18 in code and 10 in docs) and 22 issues were closed (17 in code and 5 in docs). Excluding merges, 14 authors made additions and deletions. See details for code and docs.

6.4 changelog:

  • 04d03d1: [DependencyInjection] fix instanceof autoconfiguration for anonymous classes
  • 8b44fc1: [Serializer] fix getAllowedAttributes() when groups contain wildcard '*'
  • e7a281b: [Dotenv] fix self-referencing variable resolution with suffix/prefix
  • 3fb5a40: [DependencyInjection] fix excludeSelf not applied when using AutowireLocator
  • 2dad500: [Filesystem] fix Path methods replacing backslashes on UNIX

7.4 changelog:

  • 99f010d: set ignoreUndefinedTriggers to true in phpunit.xml.dist files
  • b0ed57c: [Mailer] fix handling of webhook.test verification event from MailerSend webhook
  • c4192b6: [ObjectMapper] auto-inject ObjectMapper into ObjectMapperAwareInterface transforms

8.1 changelog:

  • 5f848d8: bump PHP requirement to >= 8.4.1
  • 217545b: [HttpKernel] fix cache warmers running on every kernel boot instead of only on compilation
  • 1f7d4cd: [Console] improve Table rendering performance
  • 4801411: [VarExporter] fix serialization of objects with __serialize/__unserialize
  • 3acb4ac: [DependencyInjection] add #[RequiredBundle], ServicesBundle and ConsoleBundle
  • 1596fb2: [ErrorHandler] fix http_response_code() warning on PHP 8.5 for max execution time errors
  • 57f65c5: [VarExporter] make DeepCloner::__serialize() return a pure array and add toArray()/fromArray()
  • d770961: [DependencyInjection] fix bundles cache freshness check
  • da9ba59: [VarExporter] leverage ext-deepclone when available

Newest issues and pull requests

Symfony CLI

Symfony CLI is a must-have tool when developing Symfony applications on your local machine. It includes the Symfony Local Server, the best way to run local Symfony applications. This week Symfony CLI released its new version with the following changes:

  • update tests according to cloud templates (@tucksaun)
  • Bump go to 1.26 and update deps (@tucksaun)
  • Update deps (@fabpot)
  • add a CI job to check if tests are changing any files (@tucksaun)
  • Add autocompletion support for symfony pie (@tucksaun)
  • Tweak the migration instructions (@tucksaun)
  • Consider composer.cmd when looking for Composer on Windows (@tucksaun)
  • fix: DEFAULT_URI should also be exposed locally (@tucksaun)
  • Update configuration directory name to symfony-cli and a warning if legacy directory is detected (@tucksaun)
  • prefer os specific config dirs (@tjblackheart)

Symfony Jobs

These are some of the most recent Symfony job offers:

  • Symfony Developer at Design Force Marketing
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  • Backend Symfony Developer at ShipMonk
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  • Backend Symfony Developer at Vacatia
    Full-time - $150,000 – $180,000 / year
    Remote + part-time onsite (Portland, Oregon, United States)
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  • Backend Symfony Developer at POLAVIS
    Full-time - €30 – €45 / hour
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  • Backend Symfony Developer at Travis International Road Services
    Full-time - €3,800 – €4,500 / month
    Remote + part-time onsite (Tilburg, Netherlands)
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You can publish a Symfony job offer for free on symfony.com.

SymfonyCasts Updates

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