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This week, the development phase of Symfony 2.4 finished with a ton of new features committed to the Symfony repository, such as a way to override the Request class, the routing/container descriptors, the refactor of the sessions to avoid writing the session at each request and the possibility to register Commands via the DIC. In addition, it was announced that the Symfony Certification exam can now be taken in nearly 4,000 test centers across the world.

This week, Symfony 2.2.8 maintenance version was published. Meanwhile, in anticipation of the end of the Symfony 2.4 development phase, a lot of commits were merged in the master branch, such as the support of the JSON format in the Translation component, the simplification of the Callback constraint and the shiny new Form debugger. Lastly, the full schedule of the SymfonyCon Warsaw 2013 conference was published.

This week, the new Expression Language component was added to the master branch of the Symfony2 repository. This component allows the use of expressions for services definition, routes, access control rules and validation constraints. It was publicly introduced this week at the Symfony Live London 2013 conference and it will be the main new feature of Symfony 2.4.

This week, the DependencyInjection component fixed some undetected circular references, the EventDispatcher events were made lighter and the Form component made a lot of tweaks and improved its code coverage. Meanwhile, the Symfony Live London 2013 conference will take place next week, where Fabien will introduce a game changing feature for the upcoming Symfony 2.4.

This week, the new Expression Language component focused all the development activity. This component provides an engine that can compile and evaluate expressions, allowing to define dynamic annotations and configuration files. Some of the most important Symfony pieces already support expressions: the service container, the security access control rules, the routing component and the validator constraints.

This week, Symfony 2.2.6 and Symfony 2.3.4 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 2.4 version, which will be released in November, continued adding cool features, such as: logs in console, better error messages, expressions for service definitions and new Request events.

This week, the development activity focused on fixing the handling of the format and locale parameters for exceptions, forwards and sub-requests. In addition, some interesting discussions were initiated around a new directory structure for Symfony and the removal of the ACL from the Security Component. Lastly, the Symfony repository achieved the 7,000th star and the 2,500th fork milestones.

This week, development activity focused on the Process component, which fixed some bugs and tweaked some of its features. In addition, the master branch changed the ESI fragment renderer to be always registered. Lastly, the full schedule of the upcoming Symfony Live London 2013 conference was unveiled.

This week, four important security releases were published, containing security fixes for the Validator and the HttpFoundation components of every Symfony major version. Meanwhile, a new 2.0 experimental branch was created to test the new features of the upcoming Twig 2.0 version.

This week, the Apache routing matcher added ability to handle array values, the image validator added options to validate the aspect ratio and the orientation of the images and the Process component added a feature to define an idle timeout. In addition, the Form component fixed a lot of reported bugs.