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This week, development activity focused on fixing the reported bugs from the first stable releases of Symfony 7.4 and 8.0. We also published a recap of the recent SymfonyCon Amsterdam conference and shared more details about the upcoming SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026 event.

This week, the stable versions of Symfony 7.4.0 and Symfony 8.0.0 were released, including tens of impressive new features. In addition, the Symfony community gathered for the SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 conference, which was a great success. Finally, we published the Black Friday promotions for the Symfony ecosystem.

This week, Symfony published new release candidate versions of Symfony 7.4 and Symfony 8.0, which are scheduled for release next week. Meanwhile, we started working on Symfony 8.1, to be released on May 2026. Lastly, we published additional details about the SymfonyCon 2025 conference, which will also take place next week.

This week, Symfony released maintenance versions 5.4.50, 6.4.29, and 7.3.7 to address a potential security vulnerability. Meanwhile, we continued polishing the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 releases and published 7.4.0 RC1 and 8.0.0 RC1. Finally, we shared new details about several of the talks planned for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.

This week, Symfony released maintenance versions 6.4.28 and 7.3.6. Meanwhile, we kept refining the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 releases. Finally, we shared new details about some of the talks planned for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.

This week, Symfony released the maintenance versions 6.4.27 and 7.3.5. In addition, we published 7.4.0-BETA1 and 8.0.0-BETA1 so you can test them before their final release in four weeks. Meanwhile, we shared a new case study about Symfony and more details about SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025, which starts in less than 30 days.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version merged the last major new features that will be included in this release: deprecated the fluent PHP format for semantic configuration and deprecated config builder generators, added a FormFlow to create multi-step Symfony forms, and improved how errors and exceptions are displayed in the CLI.

This week, Symfony kept fixing bugs and refining the new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 releases. Meanwhile, we unveiled a special site to celebrate Symfony's 20th anniversary, and we published the first post in the New in Symfony 7.4 series.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version deprecated the HTTP method override for the GET, HEAD, CONNECT, and TRACE methods, and added a new setAllowedHttpMethodOverride() method in the Request class to define which HTTP methods can be overridden. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 8.0 version continued removing all the features marked as deprecated, like the Request::get() method and some DependencyInjection extension methods related to XML.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version deprecated the XML configuration format for services and routing, introduced new attributes to configure console arguments, deprecated the get() method of the Request class, and improved the caching HTTP client.