« A week of symfony » blog posts

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.

This week, the first SymfonyCon conference was celebrated at Warsaw, Poland. More than 600 Symfony developers gathered to learn about Symfony, to meet other community members and to discover the future of the Symfony ecosystem. In the coming days, this blog will post about some of the main announcements.

This week, the first stable version of Symfony 2.4 was published. In addition, Symfony 2.2.11, the last version of the Symfony 2.2 branch was also released. Meanwhile, the Symfony community will gather next week at Warsaw to celebrate the first SymfonyCon conference.

This week, the first Symfony 2.4.0 release candidate version was released. Meanwhile, the first ideas and changes for the upcoming Symfony 2.5 version were proposed, such as the new YAML linter and the deprecation of the Apache dumper.

This week, development activity was focused on the last remaining bugs before the imminent publication of the first release candidate version of Symfony 2.4. In addition, some small but long-standing issues were fixed, such as the standardization of the constructor initialization style throughout Symfony code.

This week, Symfony 2.2.10 and Symfony 2.3.7 maintenance versions were published. Meanwhile, the new ExpressionLanguage component received a lot of new documentation and the Swedish Symfony community announced their first Symfony conference.