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A weekly summary of everything that happened around Symfony development.

This week, Symfony 2.0.5 was released, fixing tens of minor bugs and introducing some tweaks (view changelog). Meanwhile, in the last weekly IRC meeting, it was announced a big push for Symfony2 components, including a revamped documentation.
November 7, 2011 #A week of symfony
Symfony 1.4.15 was released this week, fixing a few bugs and demonstrating the strong support of symfony 1.4.x branch until its late 2012 deadline. Meanwhile, Symfony2 added a matcher and a command that help debugging router matching problems.
November 1, 2011 #A week of symfony
This week, Symfony2 added a stopwatch to profile code. The first use of this stopwatch is the new timeline panel in the web profiler. All these new features were introduced during the last Symfony Day 2011 conference.
October 24, 2011 #A week of symfony
This week, all the Symfony2 components were included in packagist.org, a public repository for Composer, the package manager that soon will be used on Symfony2. Meanwhile, on the master branch of Symfony2 repository all the HttpKernel event listeners were updated to implement EventSubscriberInterface and the official repository surpassed the 800 forks milestone.
October 20, 2011 #A week of symfony
Symfony 2.0.4 version was released this week, maintaining the fast pace of Symfony2 upgrades. In addition, the independent security audit of Symfony2 and Twig code was disclosed. Lastly, an important, and backwards incompatible change, was committed to the Symfony2 master branch: locale management was moved from the Session class to the Request class (see details).
October 10, 2011 #A week of symfony
This week Symfony2 committed the first changes related with the new composer component, a package manager that will greatly simplify bundle installation in symfony projects. In addition, parameters.ini configuration file was replaced by parameters.yml, a new mandatory checklist for pull requests was published and the documentation of Twig was significantly improved.
October 3, 2011 #A week of symfony
Symfony2 published this week its 2.0.3 maintenance version, which fixed some minor bugs. Meanwhile, 2.1 branch added cool new tweaks and features, such as a new validator for user password, the ability to set different options for repeating fields and PHP 5.4 traits support for ClassLoader. Lastly, symfony developers gathered this week for another symfony meeting and discussed lots of interesting topics.
September 27, 2011 #A week of symfony
Symfony 1.4.14 was released this week, containing several enhancements and fixes proposed by community members. Meanwhile, the official Symfony2 repository surpassed the 3,000th watcher milestone.
September 19, 2011 #A week of symfony
This week, Symfony2 development activity focused on translation. Besides the new CSV and Qt dumpers, a new command was added to extract translation messages from templates, greatly easing the internationalization of applications. In addition, it was announced that the popular symfony IRC meetings will be held again in a bi-weekly basis starting next thursday.
September 13, 2011 #A week of symfony
This week Symfony2 became one of the first web frameworks to implement the Content-Disposition header, an important feature to ensure broad interoperability between browsers for file downloading. In addition, Drupal 8 started this week the integration of several Symfony2 components.
September 7, 2011 #A week of symfony