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This week, the Symfony Live Berlin 2013 conference focused all the community attention with some important announcements: the new Symfony projects page, the second edition of the Symfony Awards and the new Silex 2.0 experimental branch. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements to come at the first SymfonyCon conference in Warsaw (Poland) on December 10 – 14.

This week, the first serious discussions about Symfony 3.0 started with the proposal of splitting the HttpKernel component into three separate components. Meanwhile, the Symfony community will gather again next week for the Symfony Live Berlin 2013 conference.

This week, the complete schedule of the Symfony Live Berlin 2013 conference was unveiled. Meanwhile, the community started integrating Symfony applications with the HHVM project and the first benchmarks showed very promising results.

This week, the Symfony Content Management Framework project released its first stable version. In addition, a new discussion was initiated about how to dynamically load code in Symfony2. This feature would allow to install/download bundles in Symfony2 applications and enable them automatically.

This week, four Symfony2 security releases were published to address a potential DOS attack related to the security component. In addition, the first beta of Symfony 2.4.0 was released, containing more than 1,000 new commits and a lot of great new features, while maintaining backwards compatibility with Symfony 2.3.

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.