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This week, the Symfony development activity was frantic: the performance of the service container was improved, max_length and pattern options were deprecated in the Form component, a new UUID validator was added and a new twig:debug command was introduced to list all Twig functions, filters and global variables. Lastly, the addition of a much stricter email validator closed one of the longest running pull requests in Symfony history.

This week, Symfony added a new debug PHP extension to improve the Debug Symfony component. In addition, it enhanced the display of logs for the web profiler and added a standalone and PSR-3 compliant logger to the Console component.

This week, the Process component focused most of the development activity for the Symfony 2.3 branch. Meanwhile, the Form component improved the getErrors() method and firewalls added the feature of matching requests based on HTTP methods. In addition, Silex added support for the PATCH method and Twig fixed the recursive block calling for inherited templates.

This week the Console component greatly improved the ProgressBar helper and the ClassLoader component added a PSR-4 compatible class loader. Meanwhile, the refactorization of HttpKernel component started with the extraction of the profiler to a new component. In addition, the internal web server added support for HHVM.

This week, the Symfony Yaml component greatly improved its performance, thanks to its use in the Drupal 8 installer. In addition a new and advanced ProgressBar was proposed for the Console component.

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.