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This week, Symfony released the maintenance versions 6.4.26 and 7.3.4. Development on the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version also continued, with more features and deprecations added ahead of its release at the end of November. Finally, we announced additional talks for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version improved enum support in workflows, added generics to the config builder API, and deprecated FQCN properties in PersistentToken and RememberMeDetails. In addition, we published more details about the talks for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.

This week, Symfony development activity focused on merging pending new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 versions. In addition, we announced a new conference: SymfonyDay Montreal on June 4, 2026, and made a call for volunteers for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.

This week, Symfony development activity focused on merging new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 versions: added a Video constraint, introduced an access_decision() Twig function to get the security voter decision details, and added support for DTOs in Input attributes for invokable commands. We also announced that Symfony will provide the official MCP SDK for PHP, announced the first talks of the SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 conference and continued celebrating the legacy of Ryan Weaver.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This week, development focused on the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 releases. We added new features such as the ObjectMapperAwareInterface, improved value transformers in JsonStreamer, and enabled loading JSON via imports in AssetMapper. We also removed deprecated features, including Doctrine entity auto-mapping. In addition, we announced more details about SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.