This week, Symfony continued tweaking and polishing the upcoming Symfony 6.4 and 7.0 releases. In addition, we published new blog posts about the main new features of Symfony 6.4 and 7.0. Finally, we announced three new speakers for the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference.
October 29, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony released the first beta of Symfony 6.4 and the first beta of Symfony 7.0 so you can test them in your own apps before their final releases. In addition, the Symfony 6.3.6 maintenance version was released. Meanwhile, the development activity was frantic in order to merge and tweak all the pending new features of Symfony 6.4 and 7.0.
October 22, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, development activity was very intense in preparation for the release of Symfony 6.4 and 7.0 in 6 weeks. One of the most important tasks was the addition of Doctrine ORM 3 and DBAL 4 compatibility to Symfony 5.4 and up. We also updated the code to use some of the modern PHP 8 features. Finally, we announced the last days of the regular ticket prices for the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference.
October 15, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony celebrated the SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference with great success. Meanwhile, development activity focused on the upcoming Symfony 6.4 and 7.0 versions, mostly on the new features added to the AssetMapper component.
October 8, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 5.4.29 and 6.3.5 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, development activity focused on tweaking and polishing some of the features included in the upcoming Symfony 6.4 and 7.0 versions. Lastly, the SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference will take place next week.
October 1, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, we continued working on tweaking and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 6.4 features. In addition, the community proposed a revamp of the Serializer component to make it more powerful and performant. Lastly, we published more talks for the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference and announced the last early bird days for the SymfonyLive Paris 2024 conference.
September 24, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony announced the end of support for Twig 2 and a security release for the symfony/ux-autocomplete package. Meanwhile, the upcoming SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference announced its workshops and some of its first talks related to static analysis, the Symfony scheduler and ChatGPT.
September 17, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony launched a new initiative to help third-party packages and libraries with the new PHP types added in Symfony 7.0. In addition, it made a call for IT student volunteers for the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference. Finally, we announced the countdown to SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference and to the API Platform Conference 2023.
September 10, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, development activity was lighter than usual and focused on deprecating and tweaking features in the upcoming Symfony 6.4 version. Meanwhile, the SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference announced the last days of the reduced ticket price period.
September 3, 2023
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 5.4.28 and 6.3.4 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.4 version added a new AutowireLocator attribute, improved the security of the login throttling logs, and added a command to download missing AssetMapper packages. Lastly, we announced the last Call for Papers days and a hackathon for the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference.
August 27, 2023
#A week of symfony