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.
March 9, 2014
#A week of symfony
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.
March 2, 2014
#A week of symfony
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.
February 23, 2014
#A week of symfony
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.
February 16, 2014
#A week of symfony
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.
February 9, 2014
#A week of symfony
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.
February 2, 2014
#A week of symfony
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.
January 26, 2014
#A week of symfony
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.
January 19, 2014
#A week of symfony
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.
January 12, 2014
#A week of symfony
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.
January 5, 2014
#A week of symfony