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A week of symfony #214 (31 January -> 6 February 2011)
Symfony2 boosted its development activity this week, just before the first Symfony Live 2011 conference in San Francisco. A new SecurityBundle was introduced, class loading was moved to its own component and the Form and Validator components were vastly revamped. In addition, the first version of the config normalizer was committed, although symfony community showed no consensus about it yet.
A week of symfony #213 (24->30 January 2011)
Symfony2 achieved this week a remarkable milestone: more than 500 pull requests have been submitted by tens of developers around the world. In addition, Symfony2 added some cool new features, such as a cache warmer to improve performance, definition inheritance support for DIC and a complete refactorization of the CSRF protection. Lastly, three new sessions were unveiled for the Symfony Live conferences.
A week of symfony #212 (17->23 January 2011)
This week, Symfony2 PR5 was released and the definitive roadmap for Symfony2 was laid out. Meanwhile, the activity of the developers mailing list skyrocketed with tens of messages openly discussing every important feature of Symfony2. As a result of these discussions, the bundle management was completely refactored.
A week of symfony #211 (10->16 January 2011)
Symfony2 introduced this week some minor but profound refactorings: the routing component adopted URI template notation, bundles changed their names to be the class name of the bundle not the last part of the namespace and templates name format changed to bundle:section:template.renderer.format (both the renderer and the format are mandatory). Meanwhile, the Symfony2 donation drive to fund code security audits was an astonishing success.
A week of symfony #210 (3->9 January 2011)
Symfony2 repository received this week a massive amount of commits, mostly on Twig, Form, Security and Doctrine components. Twig bundle was heavily refactored to match the important changes introduced in Twig 1.0 RC1, which was also published this week. Security component added a brand-new ACL system and Form component added support for virtual field groups and a FieldFactory mechanism to automatically create fields by introspecting metadata of a class. Meanwhile, in the last weekly IRC meeting, Fabien unveiled some interesting information about Symfony2, including a new way to handle web assests and the expected roadmap until its final release.
A week of symfony #209 (27 December 2010 -> 2 January 2011)
This week marks the start of what could be the most important year of the symfony project history. For starters, in less than three months' time, Symfony2 will be published and two official symfony conferences will be held at Paris and San Francisco. Therefore, symfony project wishes a very happy new year to all its supporters and developers.
A week of symfony #208 (20->26 December 2010)
Form and Validation components were heavily updated this week, including the refactorization of code to a new Locale component and the implementation of new fields and constraints. In addition, Doctrine project published the first stable release of Doctrine 2.0.
A week of symfony #207 (13->19 December 2010)
Symfony2 committed this week two huge changesets related to the Security component: fixed user refreshing after unserialization and added authentication trust resolver. It also committed two small but important tweaks: the new hash syntax for Twig templates and the new format for XML attribute names.
A week of symfony #206 (6->12 December 2010)
This week, the definitive schedule for Symfony Live 2011 conference was published. Meanwhile, Symfony2 development activity focused on small tweaks and code refactoring.
A week of symfony #205 (29 November -> 5 December 2010)
This week, the Symfony2 Preview Release 4 version was released. Despite being far from finished, this is a full-featured version and therefore it's the best way to learn the new Symfony2 philosophy.