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This week, Symfony continued adding compatibility with the upcoming PHP 8.4 version and also focused on tweaking and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version. Meanwhile, we published more information about some of the talks that will be part of the SymfonyOnline June 2024 conference.

This was a very special week for the Symfony project. Ryan Weaver, a beloved Symfony core team member and SymfonyCasts founder, asked for our love and support as he battles cancer. The Symfony and PHP communities rallied around Ryan and his family and raised more than $250,000 in donations. If you can, please keep donating money to support Ryan and his family.

This week, Symfony 5.4.38, 6.4.6 and 7.0.6 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the development activity on the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version was very intense because it just entered into the stabilization phase. Lastly, we published a recap of the SymfonyLive Paris 2024 conference.

This week, Symfony organized the SymfonyLive Paris 2024 conference with great success. Development activity focused on fixing bugs and tweaking new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version. Lastly, this week we celebrate the 900th issue of the "A Week of Symfony" series. Thanks to all the folks who read this every week.

This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version added features such as a method to return all tokens after the command name, support for new DOM extension classes in VarDumper, some design updates in the workflow profiler panel and a way to apply attribute configurator to child classes in dependency injection.

This week, Symfony continued adding support for the upcoming PHP 8.4 version in all maintained Symfony branches. Meanwhile, the next Symfony 7.1 release improved performance when creating lazy objects, added support for workflows that need to store many tokens in the marking and introduced a new AutowireMethodOf attribute to autowire a method of a service as a callable.

This week, Symfony 5.4.37, 6.4.5 and 7.0.5 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, in preparation for PHP 8.4 release at the end of 2024, we started testing all Symfony versions with it and we already fixed some deprecations.

This week, Symfony 5.4.36, 6.4.4 and 7.0.4 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version focused on finishing some minor new features.

This week, development activity focused on the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version. We optimized the generation of some UUIDs, improved the autocompletion feature in the console and made AutowirePass reentrant in preparation for further improvements.

This week, development activity focused on fixing bugs, such as adding compatibility with the new yielding feature introduced in Twig 3.9. In addition, we published more details about the talks of the upcoming SymfonyLive Paris 2024 conference.