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A weekly summary of everything that happened around Symfony development.

This week, development activity for the upcoming Symfony 8.2 release was very intense: PropertyInfo made accessors and mutators configurable with attributes, HttpFoundation added targeted Cache-Control support conforming to RFC 9213, Console attributes can now use callables for descriptions and help text, Messenger added a concurrency option to process messages in parallel, and Mailer introduced support for rate-limited transports. In addition, we announced the Symfony AI Core Team.
August 16, 2026 #A week of symfony ❤️ 2 👍 4
This week, Symfony 7.4.16 and 8.1.4 maintenance versions were released, alongside Symfony UX 3.4.0 and Symfony Polyfill 1.41.0. In addition, we highlighted Twig 4.0's new macro system and first-class sandbox. Finally, we announced that SymfonyLive Germany 2027 will take place in Cologne.
August 9, 2026 #A week of symfony ❤️ 1 👍 3
This week, Symfony 6.4.43, 7.4.15, 8.0.16 and 8.1.3 maintenance versions were released. In addition, Symfony 8.0 reached its end of life. Finally, we introduced Symfony Reprise, the evolution of Webpack Encore for modern bundlers such as Vite and Rsbuild.
August 2, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 1
This week, Symfony development activity was very intense and focused mostly on bug fixes. In addition, we added support for the upcoming Twig 4.0 version and fixed some issues related to changes in the upcoming PHP 8.6 version. Lastly, we published the first talks for the SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026 conference.
July 26, 2026 #A week of symfony ❤️ 2 👍 1
This week, Symfony published Symfony UX 3.3, which adds support for Symfony Reprise and includes several improvements to the toolkit. In addition, SymfonyCasts announced a new course on upgrading to Symfony 8. Finally, the upcoming SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026 conference announced its first four speakers.
July 19, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 1 🚀 1
This week, development activity focused on various improvements, such as enhancing the DX of AssetMapper in debug mode and allowing developers to disable redirects on logout. There were also proposals to improve Messenger with a new command and to add pipe operator compatibility to the Validator component.
July 12, 2026 #A week of symfony
This week, Symfony released Twig 3.28.0, with improvements to macros and the sandbox. In addition, we published a case study on using Symfony in the industrial sector. Lastly, we proposed a redesign of the exception page for Symfony applications.
July 5, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 2
This week, maintenance versions 6.4.42, 7.4.14, 8.0.14, and 8.1.1 were released. In addition, development activity for the upcoming Symfony 8.2 version was intense, adding new features such as a Cron constraint for validating cron expressions, single-use signed URLs, a visual indicator for dumped variables in the profiler, and support for passing non-string parameters to constraints.
June 28, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 1
This week, the Symfony book published its update for Symfony 8.1 in multiple languages. Meanwhile, we completed the New in Symfony 8.1 series, continued the New in Twig 4.0 series with articles about the sandbox and expression parsers, and launched a new series about Symfony AI. Finally, we released new Symfony UX versions to address two security issues.
June 21, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 1
This week, we celebrated the SymfonyOnline June 2026 conference. In addition, we published a new case study showcasing how Symfony helps power the rental real estate market. Lastly, we continued publishing articles about new features in Symfony and Twig.
June 14, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 2