This week, the new Symfony Best Practices were published, sparking an intense debate among the community. In addition, the new Symfony installer became a reality and hopefully it will be ready for the launch of Symfony 2.6.
Symfony2 development highlights
- c9cd76c: [Twig Bridge] added missing argument in the yaml_encode filter
 - 2ad0642: [FrameworkBundle] fixed IDE links for emacas and Sublime
 - 0af6467: [Form] enforce options value type check in some form types
 
- 2822fdb: [SecurityBundle] added trust_resolver variable into expression
 
- 3c401af: [VarDumper] enhanced dumping refs
 
Newest issues and pull requests
- [DX][3.0] Revolutionizing the Container with PhpConfig
 - [Form] Always submit GET forms if present in request
 - [Form] Support {{ label }} placeholder in error messages
 - [HttpKernel] unserialize() conflicts with extended constructor
 - Unserializing objects with dependencies
 - Ajax debug toolbar display only request starting with /
 - [Form] Remove *_timezone options from date/time type
 - [Framework] Template name is not valid
 
Twig development highlights
- 98f1a4b: Simplified Twig installation instructions
 - 0082e05: fixed the support of 2-word tests without a custom node class
 - bf541bf: fixed lexing of negative numbers
 
They talked about us
- Symfony CMF wins CH Open Source Award 2014
 - SymfonyCon Walk, the Conference Section
 - Symfony for frontend developers #5 – Assets and Assetic
 - Las buenas prácticas oficiales de Symfony
 - Официальный гайд по лучшим практикам в Symfony
 - The new Symfony Best Practices
 - Lightweight Symfony2 Controllers
 - Entendiendo las Buenas Prácticas Oficiales de Symfony
 - Unnecessary contrapositions in the new Symfony Best Practices
 - Внедряем работу с координатами в sonata-admin
 - Why is Doctrine2 making extra queries by itself!?
 - Symfony Live 2014 NYC recap
 - Speed up your Symfony2 application and build awesome features with Redis
 - Symfony Best Practices
 - Sensio publie les Bonnes Pratiques Symfony
 - Symfony2 – playing with default locale
 - Setting up FOSRestBundle with Symfony
 - Understanding Directory Structure of Symfony 2
 - Autocomplétion pour Symfony2 sous mac
 
May I ask what this new installer has to offer, compared to running a simple "composer create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition" ?
@Marcel Hernandez: it will also perform additional Symfony2-specific checks. See https://github.com/symfony/symfony-installer/issues/9.
Marcel, here are the main advantages of the new installer:
the new installer looks really promising.
Thank you all :)