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
This week, the first maintenance version of Symfony2 was released, fixing some minor bugs. Besides the official Git repository, all the Symfony2 components can be downloaded as a package from the Symfony2 PEAR channel. Lastly, the first official Symfony2 English trainings were also announced.
August 29, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony2 development activity focused this week on fixing some minor bugs. Meanwhile, Propel ORM announced a brand-new version for one of the most used symfony 1.x plugins.
August 22, 2011
#A week of symfony
This week, we learned that Drupal project is considering the use of several Symfony2 components for its upcoming version. Therefore, Drupal could join other big PHP projects such as phpBB which already selected Symfony2 for developing its next versions.
August 15, 2011
#A week of symfony
This week, the echoes of the big Symfony 2.0.0 launch still resonated strongly. However, now that 2.0 is out, the work has already begun for the next versions. Lastly, a new maintainance version of symfony 1.4.x branch was also published.
August 9, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony 2.0.0 version was finally released this week, marking the end of a fascinating journey that began 18 months ago. This release also marks the beginning of a bright future for the symfony project and its expanding ecosystem.
August 2, 2011
#A week of symfony