Symfony blog posts for December 2017
A week of symfony #574 (25-31 December 2017)
This week, the development activity was low, as usual during the end of the year, and focused on fixing minor issues. In addition, we published the Symfony 2017 Year in Review to recap all that we achieved as a community during the past twelve months.
December 31, 2017 · Published in #A week of symfonySymfony 2017 Year in Review
The end of the year is the best time to review all that we achieved as a community during the past twelve months. These are some of the highlights of the 2017 year for the Symfony Project.
December 29, 2017 · Published in #SymfonyA week of symfony #573 (18-24 December 2017)
This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing bugs, mostly related to environment variables edge cases. In addition, Symfony released a tool called Thanks which lets PHP developers give thanks to all their PHP dependencies in the form of a GitHub star.
December 24, 2017 · Published in #A week of symfonySay Thanks to the Libraries you Depend on
Give thanks (in the form of a GitHub ⭐) to your fellow PHP package maintainers with the new "thanks" Composer plugin!
December 21, 2017 · Published in #CommunityA week of symfony #572 (11-17 December 2017)
This week Symfony released the 3.4.2 and 4.0.2 maintenance versions. Meanwhile, we improved the performance when getting services from the container, added HTML5-like validation for email addresses, and improved the design of tables in console commands. Lastly, the SymfonyLive Paris 2018 conference announced its early bird registration and the call for papers.
December 17, 2017 · Published in #A week of symfonySymfonyLive Paris conference is coming, early bird registration now available!
The SymfonyLive Paris is the French edition of the SymfonyLive conference and therefore entirely held in French.
December 14, 2017 · Published in #Community #ConferencesUpdating the Symfony Demo application to Symfony 4
The Symfony Demo project, a reference application created to show how to develop Symfony applications following the recommended best practices, has been fully updated to Symfony 4 and Symfony Flex.
December 11, 2017 · Published in #SymfonyA week of symfony #571 (4-10 December 2017)
This week, Symfony released five new maintenance versions for the branches that have active support: 2.7.39, 2.8.32, 3.3.14, 3.4.1, 4.0.1. In addition, we continued our efforts towards creating a more diverse Symfony community.
December 10, 2017 · Published in #A week of symfonyLet's grow the Symfony community
The diversity initiative is about growing our community by ensuring a safe environment for under represented groups and empowering them to become productive members of our community.
December 7, 2017 · Published in #Community #DiversityA week of symfony #570 (27 November - 3 December 2017)
This week, Symfony 4.0 was released. This is not just a new major Symfony version, it's an entirely re-imagined and simplified developer experience. In addition, Symfony 3.4 was released, which is a long term support version (bugs fixed until November 2020). Lastly, the Symfony diversity initiative got a boost with the appointment of Lukas Kahwe Smith as the leader of this important initiative.
December 3, 2017 · Published in #A week of symfonyThe SymfonyCon Cluj 2017 is a wrap!
What a groundbreaking success! If you were one of the lucky 800 to attend the annual Symfony conference in the beautiful city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, you know that the SymfonyCon Cluj marked a special moment for the Symfony community.
December 1, 2017 · Published in #CommunitySymfony 2017 Community Awards Winners
The winners of the Symfony 2017 Community Awards were announced during the closing ceremony of the past SymfonyCon Cluj 2017 conference. These awards recognize the accomplishments of different individuals within the Symfony Community.
December 1, 2017 · Published in #Community