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Symfony blog posts for August 2025

13 blog posts were published on August 2025

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This week, we celebrated the life and legacy of Ryan Weaver, a beloved teacher, contributor, and friend whose work at SymfonyCasts helped thousands discover the joy of Symfony. His kindness, humor, and dedication to lifting others up made our community stronger, and his spirit will continue to inspire everything we build. To honor Ryan, we encourage the community to keep learning, keep sharing, and support SymfonyCasts and his family.
August 31, 2025 #A week of symfony ❤️ 5
20 years of Symfony, now in a comic book. Join us in bringing it to life! ✨📖
August 29, 2025 #Community ❤️ 1 👍 9 🚀 1 😄 1 🎉 1
August 29, 2025 #Releases
August 29, 2025 #Releases
We are deeply saddened to share the news that Ryan Weaver — a cherished member of the Symfony Community, a tireless educator, and a friend to so many — passed away after a long and courageous battle with brain cancer.
August 28, 2025 #Community ❤️ 178
From deep dives into Symfony Workflows and APIs to hands-on sessions on security, architecture, and performance, there’s something for you. Thank you to everyone who submitted proposals, your ideas shaped this year’s lineup!
August 27, 2025 #Conferences ❤️ 1
This week, Symfony development focused on improving the IsGranted attribute with a new option, updated the Route attribute to allow setting multiple environments, improved the DomCrawler component to use the native HTML5 parser when using PHP 8.4 or newer and marking the JsonPath, JsonStreamer, and ObjectMapper components as no longer experimental.
August 24, 2025 #A week of symfony ❤️ 4
This week, development activity mostly focused on dealing with the deprecation of sleep/wakeup methods in PHP 8.5 and their replacement by serialize/unserialize methods. In addition, we published more details about the unconference track at the SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 conference and a Symfony AI Hackathon on September 12, 2025.
August 17, 2025 #A week of symfony 👍 1
Join the Symfony AI Hackathon on Friday, 12th of September, online or in-person in Berlin.
August 16, 2025 #Community 👍 9 🚀 9 🎉 8
SymfonyCon’s Unconference track is open to all attendees! Share your ideas in a 20-minute talk! No need to be a pro speaker. Apply now and be part of something spontaneous and powerful.
August 12, 2025 #Conferences
This week, Symfony completed the migration to PHPUnit 12 in the 7.4 branch, which required many changes during the past weeks, such as replacing annotations with attributes. In addition, we updated the container XML dumping process to not require the PHP XML extension. Finally, we also published more details about the hackday to be celebrated during the SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 conference.
August 10, 2025 #A week of symfony
Ready to contribute to Symfony? On Nov 29, we’re hosting a Hackday in Amsterdam focused on mentoring, roadmap planning, testing, and more. Come shape the future of Symfony!
August 6, 2025 #Conferences
This week, Symfony released the maintenance versions 6.4.24, 7.2.9, and 7.3.2. Meanwhile, we began deprecating the XML configuration format in some components, enhanced the YAML configuration format to support auto-completion and updated the container XML dumping process to remove some dependencies.
August 3, 2025 #A week of symfony ❤️ 1 👍 1