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This week, Symfony development focused on fixing bugs and finishing new features for the upcoming Symfony 6.1 version. One of those new features is a button to copy requests as cURL commands in the Symfony Profiler. Meanwhile, the SymfonyLive Paris 2022 conference, which will take place in just 4 weeks, announced its complete workshop and talk schedule

This week, Symfony 4.4.39, 5.4.6 and 6.0.6 maintenance versions were released. In addition, the entire schedule of SymfonyLive Paris 2022 conference was published. Finally, Symfony expressed its solidarity with Ukrainian people.

This week, Symfony announced that Symfony 6.1 will require PHP 8.1. This is needed to fix some issues related to PHP preloading. We also decided to extend Symfony 6.0 maintenance by an additional 6 months to give you more time to prepare the migration to PHP 8.1. Finally, Symfony announced the last talks and speakers for the SymfonyLive Paris 2022 conference.

This week, Symfony introduced the Twig 3 certification and updated the official Symfony book to showcase Symfony 5.4 and 6.0 versions. In addition, SymfonyLive Paris 2022 conference announced more speakers and more workshops.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.1 version deprecated the $defaultName property in Console commands and added a new cache:pool:invalidate-tags command to ease the management of cache pools. Meanwhile, we discussed about bumping PHP to 8.1 in Symfony 6.1. Lastly, we announced the first speakers of SymfonyLive Paris 2022 and the Call for Papers for the international Symfony conferences.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.1 version added context builders to simplify the creation of serialization contexts. In addition, SymfonyCon announced that it's coming back as a physical conference at Disneyland Paris later this year (November 15-18, 2022).

This week, Symfony 4.4.37, 5.3.14, 5.4.3 and 6.0.3 maintenance versions were released. In addition, a regression in the latest patch version related to configuration of CSRF tokens in forms was found and fixed in security releases for all Symfony 5.3+ versions.

This was a very intense week for Symfony: first we introduced the new Symfony 6 certification exam, then we announced a new and better way to start Symfony projects and finally, we updated Symfony Flex to provide fast, smart Flex recipe upgrades which will simplify a lot upgrading to newer Symfony versions.

This week, Symfony fixed some issues related to PHP enums and improved the performance when using many environment variables in your application. Meanwhile, the SymfonyWorld Online 2022 Summer Edition conference finished its early bird period, but the Call for Papers is still open, so you can send your proposals until February 14, 2022.

This week, Symfony released the first versions of the recently open-sourced Symfony CLI project. In addition, Symfony announced the upcoming ending of Early Bird Tickets and Call for Papers period for the SymfonyLive Paris 2022 and SymfonyWorld Online 2022 Summer Edition conferences.