This week, the Symfony2 codebase was heavily updated to use shorter bundle names, removing the 'Bundle' suffix. However, in the last IRC meeting it was decided to revert that decision, after a lengthy discussion in the mailing list.
April 4, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony2 accelerated this week its development pace in order to prepare for its final release. Tons of properties and methods were switched from protected to private, the public API started to be tagged (0f231c3), HTTP exceptions were refactored, the first bridges across components were committed (3e5bd67), Twig 1.0.0 was released and even a new version of cache:clear command was added to the framework's utilities.
March 28, 2011
#A week of symfony
This week, Symfony2 gained a new intl extension stub, which will prevent some possible problems related to the intl extension requirement. In addition, the new event manager was committed, probably being one of the last major changes of Symfony2 code. Lastly, the symfony-docs repository also received lots of commits, as Symfony2 stabilization allows expanding and improving its documentation.
March 21, 2011
#A week of symfony
This week, the echoes of the last Symfony Live conference still resonated in the symfony community. Meanwhile, Symfony2 switched most of its methods and properties from protected to private, a decision made to ease its maintenance that generated a lengthy and heated discussion on the mailing list. Lastly, in the last weekly IRC meeting core developers decided that "there won't be any other big change before Symfony 2.0 version, no matter what".
March 14, 2011
#A week of symfony
What a week for symfony project! Hundreds of developers gathered in Paris for Symfony Live 2011 conference, attending tens of technical sessions, discussing the future of Symfony2 and getting in touch with other community members.
March 10, 2011
#A week of symfony
The public API of Symfony2 will be frozen in just a few days. Therefore, this week developers committed some of the last big impact changes to the code repository: the Response was removed from DIC, CompatAssetsBundle was removed in favor of AsseticBundle, and the boostrap files were also removed.
February 27, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony2 frantic development activity included this week some massive commits such as adding support for merging security configurations, implementing single-pass config loading with intelligent merging and moving common configuration classes to a new Config component.
In addition, the new AsseticBundle was integrated in Symfony2, allowing a much more powerful and flexible way to handle web assets.
Lastly, 1.3.9 and 1.4.9 maintenance versions were released.
February 20, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony community gathered this week around the first Symfony Live conference in San Francisco (chronicle of day 1, day 2). In addition, the donation drive for security audits finished with great success and Twig, Doctrine2 and Symfony2 code will be audited.
February 13, 2011
#A week of symfony
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.
February 6, 2011
#A week of symfony
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.
January 30, 2011
#A week of symfony