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A weekly summary of everything that happened around Symfony development.

This week, Symfony 5.4.54, 6.4.48, 7.4.21, and 8.1.9 maintenance versions were released, along with three security fixes for HttpFoundation, ExpressionLanguage, and Yaml. We also released Symfony UX 3.6, which adds three experimental packages: UX Inspector, UX Image, and UX Router. Meanwhile, we kept publishing articles about Symfony 8.2 features, such as proving authentication methods, safer logout, attribute-based workflows, encrypted Doctrine columns, and locking controllers, and we added a new JsonSchema component. Finally, we announced more talks for SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026.
October 18, 2026 #A week of symfony ❤️ 3 👍 2 🚀 1
This week, we published new articles about upcoming Symfony 8.2 features, including targeted Cache-Control, relative ordering for listeners and services, the compiled event dispatcher, the three new validation constraints, and single-use signed URLs. Meanwhile, Symfony 8.2 development continued at a rapid pace, introducing features such as workflows defined with PHP attributes, a new Lock attribute to reject or delay concurrent requests, and a RecorderHttpClient to record and replay HTTP exchanges. Finally, we unveiled more talks for SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026.
October 11, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 3
This week, Symfony 6.4.47, 7.4.20, and 8.1.8 were released, along with Symfony Reprise 1.3.0. Meanwhile, we continued introducing Symfony 8.2 features, including OpenID Connect login, PGP/MIME signed and encrypted emails, sudo mode, more flexible serialization groups, and performance improvements. Finally, we announced more talks for SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026.
October 4, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 4
This week, Symfony continued unveiling new Symfony 8.2 features, including new Messenger options and better performance, role hierarchy improvements, JSON Schema for configuration, and new Mailer features. In addition, Symfony UX 3.5 was released with a new Pagination package and many other improvements, and Twig 4.0 introduced runtime block composition. Finally, we published a new case study about Yuka and announced more talks for the upcoming SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026.
September 27, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 1
This week, Symfony maintenance versions 6.4.46, 7.4.19, and 8.1.7 were released. Meanwhile, we kicked off the "New in Symfony 8.2" blog series and SymfonyCasts published a new Symfony Security: The Basics course. Finally, we announced the last days to get regular tickets for SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026.
September 20, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 2
This week, Symfony introduced standalone bundles for the framework features (MessengerBundle, HttpClientBundle, PropertyInfoBundle, etc.), added Docker-style console subcommands, and expanded OAuth2 and OpenID Connect support. In addition, we announced the workshop lineup and some of the talks for SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026.
September 13, 2026 #A week of symfony ❤️ 1 👍 2
This week, Symfony 6.4.45, 7.4.18, and 8.1.6 were released with numerous bug fixes and hardening improvements. Meanwhile, we introduced symfony lsp:check, a new command that brings Symfony-aware diagnostics to your CI pipeline, catching unknown routes, missing templates, and configuration errors. Finally, we announced that you'll be able to meet the Symfony Core Team at the API Platform Conference 2026 in Lille on September 17–18.
September 6, 2026 #A week of symfony ❤️ 1 👍 1
This week, Symfony development activity focused mostly on bug fixes, while the community celebrated a busy first week for Symfony Language Tools and the release of Symfony Reprise 1.0.0.
August 30, 2026 #A week of symfony 👍 1
This week, Symfony 6.4.44, Symfony 7.4.17 and Symfony 8.1.5 maintenance versions were released. In addition, we introduced Symfony Language Tools, the official Symfony LSP server. Finally, we started experimenting with issue-first open source contributions.
August 23, 2026 #A week of symfony 👀 1
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 👍 5