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A week of symfony #474 (25-31 January 2016)
This week, Symfony's development activity increased significantly, with more than 60 pull requests merged and 90 issues closed. Countless fixes and tweaks were added across all components, including: added the new HTTP 451 status code, fixed template location for PHP templates, added HTTP status code in the Ajax panel of the debug toolbar, added a data: URI normalizer in Serializer and used PHP 5.5 generators in the Cache component.
A week of symfony #473 (18-24 January 2016)
This week Symfony added a new PSR-6 compliant cache component. Meanwhile, a lot of fixes and improvements were added, such as a DateTime normalizer for the Serializer component, test optimizations, web profiler tweaks, support for generating absolute URLs in CLI, etc. In addition, the first details of the SymfonyLive Paris 2016 conference were unveiled.
A week of symfony #472 (11-17 January 2016)
This week Symfony released four maintenance versions: 2.3.37, 2.6.13, 2.7.9 and 2.8.2. Besides the usual bug fixes, the main change introduced by these versions is the removal of our custom random number generator. Symfony now uses PHP's built-in random_bytes() and random_int() functions and the appropriate polyfill for those applications still using PHP 5.x.
A week of symfony #471 (4-10 January 2016)
This week, Symfony continued with the mild development activity of the last weeks. The most significant changes were that FrameworkBundle now allows to autowire the service_container and that a bug related to assets version strategy was fixed.
A week of symfony #470 (28 December 2015 - 3 January 2016)
This week, development activity was much less intense than usual. In addition to some minor fixes and tweaks, the Form component improved the performance of the ChoiceType and its subtypes .
A week of symfony #469 (21-27 December 2015)
This week, Symfony was expected to slow down its development activity. Instead, four new maintenance versions were released: 2.3.36, 2.7.8, 2.8.1 and 3.0.1.
A week of symfony #468 (14-20 December 2015)
This week Symfony focused on fixing issues, such as the generated logout path when not using the router, maintaining comments in Yaml scalar blocks and constraining password length when using bcrypt.
A week of symfony #467 (7-13 December 2015)
This week, Symfony slowed down its development activity to focus on fixing bugs and introducing minor tweaks in the newly released 2.8.0 and 3.0.0 versions. Meanwhile, the Symfony release process was updated. Lastly, the next SymfonyLive Cologne conference was announced for April 2016.
A week of symfony #466 (30 November - 6 December 2015)
This week was one the most important weeks in Symfony's history. First, Symfony 2.8.0 was released, marking the end of the Symfony2 era. Then, the long awaited Symfony 3.0.0 made its debut, taking the entire community by storm. Lastly, the SymfonyCon Paris 2015 conference gathered more than 1,000 Symfony enthusiasts from all around the world to celebrate Symfony's 10th anniversary.
A week of symfony #465 (23-29 November 2015)
This week Symfony published the 2.3.35, 2.6.12 and 2.7.7 security releases. Meanwhile, the development activity focused on 2.8 and 3.0 versions, which will be published at the beginning of the next week. Finally, the Symfony Business and Community Awards were announced and they'll be awarded during the SymfonyCon Paris 2015 conference at the end of the next week.