Symfony's long-awaited 1.1 version gets closer as Fabien delegates 1.0.X version maintenance, continues refactorization of core components and prepares the upgrading process.

Symfony popularity grows significantly with several new bloggers and new public websites powered by Symfony.

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Development highlights

r4934: refactored flash attributes (flash attributes are now managed by sfUser, removed sfFlashFilter)
r4936: added upgrade information and task (added an UPGRADE file for 1.0 projects, added a project:upgrade1.1 task , added upgrade for flash attributes)
r4937: removed getPresentationFor() and sendEmail() from sfComponent as they are available through the sfController class
r4938: removed error references as they are not really used extensively
r4939: fixed connection should be used when saving model
r4940: fixed sfPropelData doesn't use connection passed on data load
r4942: fixed append parameter for propel:data-load task
r4951: added sfEventDispatcher / sfEvent classes
- added sfEventDispatcher/sfEvent classes (replaces the sfMixer class)
- moved sfMixer to addon/propel as Propel behavior still uses the sfMixer system
- changed all calls to sfLogger to events
- changed sfLogger first argument to a sfEventDispatcher
- changed sfRouting first argument to a sfEventDispatcher (instead of a logger)
- changed sfRequest first argument to a sfEventDispatcher (instead of a logger)
- changed sfResponse first argument to a sfEventDispatcher (instead of a logger)
- removed sfContext from sfUser dependencies (now takes a sfEventDispatcher and a sfStorage)
- added the following events: application.log, application.throw_exception, request.load_parameters, controller.change_action, controller.page_not_found, user.change_culture, [component|controller|request|response|user|view].method_not_found
Updated dwhittle branch
...and many other changes

Development digest: 45 changesets, 21 defects created, 9 defects closed, 9 enhancements created, 1 enhancement closed, 1 documentation defect created, 23 documentation edits.

Book and documentation

Updated How To Handle i18n Db Fields With the Admin Generator Method 2, symfony and TextMate
Advances in italian, dutch, french and brazilian portuguese translations of the book

Approximate status of book translations: spanish (99%), italian (89%), polish (78%) chinese (26%), russian (26%), french (21%), brazilian portuguese (15%) deutsch (15%), dutch (10%), japanese (-).

Wiki

New Job Postings:
- Symfony Developer - freelance at our office in Fuerth / Nuernberg, Germany - More info: be|script, Contact: jobs [at] bescript [dot] de
New developers for hire:
- brightlight webservices: a web development company based in Einsiedeln (Switzerland). Our staff speak English and German and we've specialized in developing robust and reliable sites, often using symfony. Contact: ian [at] brightlight.ch
- Inventic: is a software development company located in Czech Republic. We specialize in content managament systems and online stores based on symfony framework.
New symfony bloggers:
- Symfoneando (website, feed)
- Software-Wahnsinn (website, feed)
- z01d's web adventures (website, feed)
- Robert Speer's Blog (website, feed)
- Christoph Hautzinger's Blog (website, feed)
New symfony community:
- Hungarian

Plugins

New plugins
- sfGuardDoctrinePlugin: it was originally a port of the propel sfGuardPlugin. It has since changed and new functionality has been added. The plugin now has 6 modules: sfGuardUser, sfGuardGroup, sfGuardPermission, sfGuardAuth, sfGuardRegister, and sfGuardForgotPassword.
- sfBlueprintPlugin: initial import of the sfBlueprintPlugin for the BlueprintCSS framework
- sfMemcachePlugin: this plugin utilizes memcached as a caching layer for both view templates and functions. This enables you to centralize your caching and is faster then a file-based methodology
- sfDoctrineSimpleCMSPlugin: this plugin is a Doctrine port of sfSimpleCMSPlugin. It is currently considered to be in an alpha state. It is not yet thoroughly tested
- sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin: automates the generation of 'slugs' based on the return value of a model method. These are useful to hide the foreign key in routing requests, and make your urls look fancy.
Updated plugins
- sfGuardPropelAuthoredBehaviorPlugin (addon to sfGuard that automatically logs the authenticated user's profile when the user creates o modifies a record): fixed not being able to specify an alternate column where the profile id is stored
- sfDoctrinePlugin: updated to r2283.
- sfFormValidationPlugin: released 1.1.1 version
- sfSimpleCMSPlugin: fixed ability to remove default stylesheet
- sfWebBrowserPlugin: refactored redirect support.
- Updated documentation for sfPropelZSLSearchPlugin, sfTextilePlugin, sfTabbedContentPlugin, sfCollapsibleContentPlugin,

Some new symfony powered websites

Flagit: (dutch) real estate listings, integrated with Google Maps, Atom syndication and Google Earth
Jzik: (french) eBay-like web site for music advertisements (instruments, concerts)
Tschitschereengreen: (german) company based in Dresden (Germany) that specializes in building web2.0 portals with Symfony
fit4sourcing.de: (german/english) web marketplace to find IT-Outsourcing partners from all over the World for your project needs
FrauBlau: international website of fashion designers FrauBlau

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August 27 – September 2, 2007 A Week of Symfony #35

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