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This week, the upcoming Symfony 2.5 version added the possibility to configure new request formats and a new config:dump command to display the current configuration of any container extension. In addition, the Symfony Live London 2014 conference was announced for 25th and 26th of September and the call for papers period was opened.

This week, Symfony 2.3.10 and Symfony 2.4.2 maintainance versions were released. Meanwhile, a new form theme was proposed to integrate the ubiquitous Twitter Bootstrap framework into the Symfony forms.

This week, the StopWatch component improved the way the event duration is calculated and allowed to get the duration without stopping events. Meanwhile, the code of TraceableEventDispatcher was greatly simplified and new features were proposed for the Console component: adding a PSR-3 logger and adding labels to progress bars.

This week, the Symfony translation component improved the loader for INI files and a new config:debug command was proposed for Symfony 2.5 to dump the current configuration. Meanwhile, Silex improved the form CSRF extension when the translator service is available and Twig improved a test about how to access attributes for XML variables.

This week, Symfony project completed most of its translations, as the result of a community initiative to improve Symfony internationalization. In addition, several improvements were proposed for Symfony 2.5, such as displaying DIC info on the web debug toolbar and integrating PsySH in dev environment.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 2.5 version deprecated the Apache router, the form debugger added a new storage and the security component added support for named password encoders. In addition, Symfony Live Paris 2014, the first official Symfony conference of this year, was announced for the 7th and 8th of April.

This week, Symfony2 master branch added the ability to change encoding options for JsonResponse, improved the way form errors are handled, and allowed the Console component to set a different default command. In addition, the Symfony repository surpassed the 10,000th issue + pull request milestone. Lastly, Bernhard Schussek started drafting the new Symfony backwards compatibility promise, which sets the foundations for the strict Symfony 2.x policy regarding BC.

This week, Symfony 2.3.9 and 2.4.1 maintenance versions were published. Meanwhile, the form debugger was greatly improved, the Twig commands were decoupled from the framework and the Finder component added GLOB_BRACE support.

This week, Symfony development activity focused on minor fixes and improvements, Twig continued working on HHVM compatibility and Silex allowed to use strings instead of constants for Monolog logging levels. Meanwhile, a lot of new discussions and proposals were initiated at the repository, such as simplifying the addition of request formats, improving the form debugger and decoupling Twig commands from Symfony.

This week, the Symfony community attention focused on the aftermath of the great SymfonyCon 2013 conference and the financing round announced by the parent company of Symfony.