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A Week of Symfony #885 (11-17 December 2023)
This week, the Symfony development activity was calmer than usual and focused on minor bug fixes and tweaks across all the supported Symfony versions (5.4, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.1). Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version (which will be released at the end of May 2024) added a new notifier for the BlueSky microblogging social platform.
A Week of Symfony #884 (4-10 December 2023)
This week, Symfony celebrated the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference with great success. During the hackday, the community contributed many bug fixes and new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version. Lastly, we announced the next SymfonyCon edition: SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 (December 5 – 6, 2024).
A Week of Symfony #883 (27 November - 3 December 2023)
This week, Symfony 6.4.0 and Symfony 7.0.0 stable versions were released. We also published a Symfony 7 landing page to summarize the main new features of this version. In addition, we introduced the Symfony 7 certification. Lastly, the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference will take place next week.
A Week of Symfony #882 (20-26 November 2023)
This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing bugs and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 6.4 and 7.0 versions, which will be released next week. In addition, we announced Symfony's Black Friday 2023 deals with 30% to 40% discounts in several Symfony products.
A Week of Symfony #881 (13-19 November 2023)
This week, Symfony 6.4.0 RC1 and 7.0.0 RC1 versions were released so you can test them in your applications before their final release in two weeks. Meanwhile, we started working on the Symfony 7.1 branch. Lastly, we announced more talks for the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference.
A Week of Symfony #880 (6-12 November 2023)
This week, Symfony 6.4.0 beta 3 and Symfony 7.0.0 beta 3 were published because their final release is approaching fast and it will take place before the end of November 2023. Meanwhile, the maintenance versions 4.4.51, 5.4.31 and 6.3.8 were published to fix some potential security vulnerabilities.
A Week of Symfony #879 (30 October - 5 November 2023)
This week, Symfony released the 6.4.0-BETA2 and 7.0.0-BETA2 versions as well as the Symfony 6.3.7 maintenance version. Meanwhile, we announced some new talks for the upcoming SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference.
A Week of Symfony #878 (23-29 October 2023)
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.
A Week of Symfony #877 (16-22 October 2023)
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.
A Week of Symfony #876 (9-15 October 2023)
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.